Birthday weekend in Seattle!

evelyn and i celebrated our birthdays on memorial weekend in seattle.   she had been taking about going to the american girl doll store for months before her birthday...i think it was everything she dreamed it would be!  oh to be a little girl again...so fun!!!

first stop, american girl store!

it looks like be pictures got uploaded backwards, so bare with me...

we rode three different ferries...to bainbridge island, to port townsand, and to whidbey island.  the girls loved the ferry rides!

miss smiles...this girl was all smiles the whole trip!  she is the happiest little girl ever!!!

i'm still trying to figure out how to keep her little! ;)

tmiss e with her matching outfit and braid...

our last stop on the trip was the bloedel reserve on bainbridge island...it was amazing.  it was 150 acre forested garden with a 3 mile walking path threw it.  everyone should have it on their bucket list!

reflection pool...

there was caterpillars everywhere on this suspension bridge.  i think ev could have played with them all day!

the trails were amazing...

reflection pond...

the residence house which is know open to tour and there is office buildings upstairs...

view of the sound...

monster faces!!!

silly faces!!!

and this little lady just loved everything about the trip...she is the happiest and smilest baby ever!!!

it really was a perfect way to spend my birthday....love my time with my little ladies and hunky husband! :)

Japanese garden...

this lady played a japanese harp...evelyn loved watching her!

ferry rides were so fun...expect when mom wants a picture...notice amelia! :)

that's seattle in the background...

love these two...us four girls are so lucky to have this amazing man in out life!!!

can you tell their excited?! :)

lisa got her hair done...

lunch at the american girl cafe...notice all the dolls haven highchairs too...

grace, the doll on the right was what ev spent her birthday money on..

amelia with her matching bitty baby..

girls and their dolls...

birthday ice cream cones...

birthday girls!!!

so excited!!!

whidbey island pit stop...

birthday dinner at a yummy Italian restaurant..

out for a walk in port townsand..

the port townsand farmers market was amazing...who doesn't  love a cheese kabob?!

and yummy bakeries...

and cute gypsy coffee trucks...

we visited a marina center where you could feed the animals...ev loves this kind of stuff!!!

feeding the starfish...

watching the octopus eat a whole crab!

skull of a whale...

oh these two girls are just so much fun to travel with, they love a good adventure!!!

when its your mom's birthday you eat cake pop in the motel room for breakfast...yum yum! :)

i sure love my time with my sweet family.  it is so great that they have a need for adventure just like brian and i!  

thanks for the great birthday ladies and hunky husband!

xoxoxox