Seattle

It had been almost a year since we had been up to Seattle to visit the Littles.  Blake headed out on a fishing trip with some friends, so we decided to leave at the same time and jumped a plane to Seattle.

Sophie did pretty well on the plane.  The last 20 minutes was a little rough, but we made it.

We took the kids down to the Seattle Aquarium.  Lots of the tanks were floor to ceiling and Sophie loved just staring into the giant tanks of fish and coming face to face with them

Allie the octopus



Allie meets a shark....I couldn't believe how long a shark can be.  I hope I never have to encounter one

Allie loved this puffer fish

Sophie checking out more fish

Sophie found Nemo

The kids were so excited to see the baby otter that had just been born a few weeks prior to us visiting.  The disappointing thing for the kids was the otter was really big for being a one month old baby.  The kids had in their minds the baby was going to be a little tiny thing and it wasn't. 

Allie getting hands on with the starfish

We attempted to make some Valentines suckers from Jolly Ranchers.  The girls loved mashing the candy into tiny pieces

The girls filled the heart molds with candy pieces and got them ready to bake



After several trial runs, we ended up with a few good looking heart suckers

These girls love getting to see each other.  They wanted to do a few different faces for me; we got a cute one and then a mean and sassy one

There is nothing like lots of sleep overs with the cousins; the baby dolls even joined the girls.  We had a quick fun trip up to see the cousins and got to also see Uncle Jeremy while we were there too.  Thanks Little's for having us up to visit.  Hopefully we see you guys soon!