Family visits

One of Kent's cousins, Agneta, and her husband came for a visit last weekend. It was so much fun because Jennie & Sophie were already here and then Kent's 2 sisters came over also. We had such a great evening with everyone.


Agenta and Valter went to Florida first and then came to Washington. Donna, Laif and Ann showed them around in Seattle, Sequim area and Victoria. They went down to Chehalis to see Janet and her family.

It was so fun to have Janet, her 2 daughters and some of her grandchildren!

This is a great shot of the four siblings.

Of course Sophie has to be the center of attention.

Everyone enjoyed just sitting around visiting and catching up with each other.

Mark & Janet sharing great times.

Jennie & Agneta enjoyed getting to know each other.

Girls everywhere!

Lots of guys too!

The Joy of Sophie

I love that Sophie has such unbridled laughter!

Sophie & Jennie came up to visit last weekend. We had several fun events over the weekend. Sophie loved playing the piano and singing at the same time. She would sit at the piano and sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star! It was great.

Sophie has a great laugh and often makes herself laugh just for attention.

Looks like she went to the zoo but it's actually her great-grandma's bed.

Fun in Oregon

So I had a 3 day business trip in Oregon this week so I stayed at the fabulous Hotel Olson. The cost to stay there is very small (just a little kid time is all). So last night I was going to take care of David, Anna & Katie while Steven and Janet went out to eat. A really cool thing happened though, Anna had just gotten a message that she had won a bike from Applebees. She had put her name down several times when they ate there and she won! So I got to take the kids out to dinner and pick up her bike. She was so excited she could hardly hold still! They were really good though. David took this picture of Anna while we were driving. You can see how happy she is.

When the manager took the bike down to give to Anna the customers clapped and cheered for her. I think she felt pretty special.

After dinner the kids wanted to show me their school so walked over there. Katie road the skooter all by herself and she was really proud of it.

David is a great bike rider and was really zooming around fast! I had a great time at this special hotel!

Quilting Retreat

This last weekend I went on a Quilting Retreat with my mom and sisters. I'm not much of a quilting kinda person but I had a quilt that needed to be finished so it was nice to be able to work on it. People had great ideas on how to finish the quilt. This picture doesn't really do the quilt justice. It's got very cute patterns throughout it.

Donna & Diane mostly worked on a quilt for my mom's bed. It turned out really nice.

Fun in Salt Lake

I got to go to Salt Lake this weekend and play with my girls! Sophie loves to go to the swimming pool. Jennie has been teaching her to swim and she is really good at it.

Such a big girl helping in the yard!

Walking the trails!

So this morning started out as another sunny day so we decided to take a walk. We have never really walked around the Mercer Slough (close to Bellevue) so that's what we did. Kent & Erik as the tour guides kept us on the right trails.

One of the trails leads you around a blueberry farm. There was a lot of bushes that will have yummy blueberries on them this summer.

One of the places we stopped along the way was the Winters House. The people who owned much of this land built a really nice house and the City of Bellevue bought it in 1992 and began refurbising it.

Justlike my new stove in the kitchen!

Skung cabbage everywhere. It is sure pretty to look at.

Spring is here! Well at least for a few days

It was such a beautiful spring day that we decided do the Zoo! I don't get out to Pt Defiance very often so it was nice to see the new things that they had there.

I love all the seahorses...

So cute!

He does't look very happy does he?