Thanksgiving in Seattle

Yes, I'm playing blog catch-up today. I've missed blogging the last couple of months but since I intend to get this blog printed into a scrapbook one day, I'm going to write about all of our recent happenings.

Starting with our first trip to Seattle. We went to Seattle (actually Tacoma) to visit Aunt Sissy and Uncle Jesse. Dado and Susie were able to meet us there as well. We had a wonderful week of family time, sight seeing and a lots of good food.

It was the first time for us to fly with Grayson and Olivia both and they did pretty good. Olivia loved the take off and landing of the airplane. She watched movies on the laptop while we were in the air. Grayson slept most of our first flight and then stay awake the entire second flight. By the end (6 hours of traveling) they were both ready to be off the plane and running around. Olivia started to get a little defiant towards the end and she started acting out using "preschool profanity." She started shouting things like "poopie doodie" and "booty dooty" much to our embarrasment. We were trying to be stern with her but it was really hard for us not to laugh under our breath, because everyone that could hear her was also cracking up at her outburts.

Once there, we got to see Aunt Sissy's pregnant belly for the first time. She was so adorable and I am as excited about her baby's arrival as I have been for my own children. We got to see their new house. We went to IKEA (one of my favorite stores that we do not have here), we visited Pike Place Market a couple of times and stopped at the very first Starbucks for coffee. We made a mixture of southern and northwestern Thanksgiving dinner and Jesse's family joined us for a great meal. In our down time, we pretty much just shopped and looked for Mt Renier from their upstairs window. It was certainly a visit we won't forget and we can't wait to go back when the weather is warmer. And just like Seattle does, it rained every day we were there. On the last night of our visit we had authentic Dungess crab bought straight from Pike Place market. It was AMAZING!