Easter Fun.....

We generally kick off the Easter Festivities around these parts with Baby Animal Days. This year was no exception. Izzy really enjoyed herself this year. She has limitless energy and loved running around and petting the animals. This girlie is not afraid of anything!! Logan is a bit more reserved. He still won't pet any of the animals but he likes to stand back and observe. To each his own!! 

 Next on the agenda is dying eggs. Izzy was old enough to participate this year. She preferred to chuck the eggs into the cups rather than place them carefully. It made for some close calls!

The Easter Bunny got her this stroller. She LOVES running around pushing it. 

Later that Sunday, we went to my mom's for an easter egg hunt. Izzy and Jackson participated for about a minute and then they just wanted to play. Logan had tons of fun and we came home with a crap load of candy! 

Jackson and Izzy are made from the same cloth... always busy! Here they are getting along and actually sitting still. As you can see, we bribed them with food. :-)

Logan and his Uncle Jesse. 

This has nothing to do with anything but I feel compelled to point out that my kids have an Uncle Jesse and an Uncle Ben. If you lived through the 90's you'll see why this is humorous to me.

Seattle.....

This year for my birthday Luke and I decided to take a quick weekend trip to Seattle. We both LOVE the Pacific Northwest and we'd never been to Seattle. I really enjoyed the city. There were all these random sculptures and murals on buildings.. super fun. 

Two of my favorites. I love the popsicle. There was absolutely no reason for a popsicle sculpture in this particular spot... totally random. 

 We also went on a Savor Seattle tour. It's a tour where a guide leads you around downtown Seattle and you get to sample gourmet foods for a bunch of different yummy restaurants. It was the highlight of our trip, I highly recommend it if you're ever in Seattle. Below are a few of the highlights.....

We started at The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company. Luke and I got there early so we decided to have a pre-tour snack! Mine is a Boston Creme Pie and Luke's is the triple chocolate, put you in a sugar coma, that I could only take one bite of! When the tour started we sampled a Tomato Soup Spice cupcake and a Pancake and Bacon cupcake (bottom). Sound gross?? It's totally not. They were soooo good!

Orange Drop Martini with a sugared rim. Delicioso!! 

Seafood Risotto

My handsome hubby sampling Pho.

That's our guide in the background. He was too funny... very entertaining. 

Aaaaaaaaand here we are at the gum wall. Don't get too close... super gross!!!

Downtown Seattle at night from the top of the Space Needle.

The second day we drove up to Mt. Rainer. It was stormy and shrouded in clouds so we didn't get to see its majesty, but it was super pretty driving around in the park.

It was raining in the valley but when we got higher up it changed to snow. I thought this snow line on the forest was interesting.