Seattle Day 6

Today we went to Bremerton. This is where Matt and Heather spent many of their summer months when they were younger. Matt absolutely loves it here, and after going and visiting it, I completely understand why. There is something pretty magical about this place.

This is Matt's Grandma's Headstone. Neither of them have been her since she passed away.
Eli and Heather sitting next to the headstone. I'm not quite sure Eli understood what it was, but he sat there well enough.
Heather and her Grandma Afton.
I was just playing around with Missy's very cool camera and Ethan was just so bright eyed. These were just some really fun pictures of him. Just because he was so alert and looking right at me.



Love, love, love this picture.
The wind was blowing so bad in these pictures. Heather and I's hair was all over the place. We rode the ferry back to Seattle from Bremerton. It was a pretty cool experience. I have never rode a ferry before.

Eli showing off his cuteness on the ferry.
So we went to this little old ladies house. Her name was Marget and she was one of Afton's best friends. Matt remembers spending many hours in her back yard in the summers. Well, Heather and Matt wanted to see if she was still alive and how she was doing, so we went to visit her. She didn't remember them specifically, but she did remember Afton's grandkids. She let us go wander her backyard for a while. She lives right on the water's edge so it was so amazing. The shells were not broken or anything because it was a private beach. We found so many Sand dollars. By far one of my favorite parts of this trip. They are so cool and I had never seen one before. We found some really big ones, and some very small ones. As small as a dime.

Eli showing off all of his treasures.
This is Marget. Isn't she the cutest little old lady ever?
Ethan just chilling, waiting for us to find all our shells. He was such a good baby. He was quite content to just lay there and look around.
After we walked the beach for awhile, we drove up to point-no-point lighthouse. It had the prettiest beach. The sand was just perfect for playing in and building castles and such in. I helped Eli write his name with a stick. I think this picture is so cute.

This is the lighthouse. This picture looks like a postcard to me. It was such a beautiful sight.
Eli and his Daddy playing in the sand.
Eli and Heather playing in the sand.
Heather helped Eli dig a hole big enough for him to sit down in. He pretended it was his spaceship and was absolutely loving it.
Then after a little bit, Heather and Matt thought it would be a great idea to bury him. At first.... not loving it, but then he actually started helping Heather through the sand on him and he thought it was hilarious. I was actually very shocked the he was even willing to let them do this. It just didn't seem like something Eli would do.
This was after they got Eli's shirt off. He had sand in EVERY crevice of his body. But it sure didn't seem to bother him to much. He thought it was funny. Once he got out, the first thing he said was "do it again". What a silly boy?
This is not even 2 minutes of him getting back in his car seat. He was soooooo tired. I just thought he looked so cute.
We went back to Bremeton after we went to the lighthouse because the tide was much lower and we wanted to find more sand dollars. I took this picture just because I wanted to show off how many oyster shells there were. All of those things in the picture are clam/oyster shells. They were everywhere and they were not broken or anything. It was so much fun.

Eli and his huge shell.
Eli, Ethan, and mommy walking along the beach.
Eli and his sand dollar.
Eli showing off the coolness of Sand dollars.
Isn't this the cutest picture ever? What's with this face? In my opinion, I think this was just good timing with the camera. He never actually pulls this face. I just caught it perfectly on the camera. SOOOOOOO cute though.
On the way back to the house, we stopped by the temple. It was very beautiful, but it just looked like a box. It is not one of my most favorite. I think ones such as SLC, or Manti are very much more beautiful then this one, but it was still very pretty.

Different angels of the temple.



The flowers and the sculpture was just some of the things that I saw walking around the temple grounds.
Heather and Eli playing in the water.
We found these little critters EVERYWHERE. We could pick up almost any given rock and there would be at least 20 to 30 of them just chilling underneath them. You pick up the rock and they all just scatter really fast.

I was so sad. There were hundreds of these shells all over the ground, but we never saw a real one this big. I think that the birds get to them to fast or something. I sure wish we could have seen a real one that was this big.
Lots, and Lots, and Lots of Jelly fish.... EVERYWHERE.

So Eli found this really long piece of Moss. He pretended that it was his pet snake and carried it around most of the time. He was quite adamant about it and he wanted us to pet it, and say hi to his pet snake. It was the cutest thing. This little boy has a very very vivid imagination.

Seattle Day 5

Today we went with Missy and her family to Snoqualmie Falls. It was so beautiful. The hike to the bottom was closed for reconstruction, but both of the observation decks were still open. That day it was really humid and starting to rain so there was tons of fog. The pictures are not super great because of this fact, but they are still pretty cool.



Mommy and her Eli boy.

Matt and I in front of the waterfall. You can barely see it because of all of the fog.

After we did the waterfall thing we went to a railroad museum. There were many cool trains there. This is Ethan and I sitting outside the front of the museum. He was hungry so I sat down and fed him while Matt walked around with Eli and looked at all the engines.

Don't you love the scarf? Heather had it on, but Eli thought it would look better on him? I must say, he does look pretty handsome.

Seattle Day 4

Today we went to Seahurst Park with the Dillions. It was a very cool place. It was basically just another rocky beach, but there was so much different sea life for us to find. Eli loved finding the crabs and the jelly fish. I think everyone enjoyed finding the jellyfish, as you will see from the pictures, we found lots of them.


Heather and Eli walking along the beach.

A hugs smashed jellyfish that we found on the rocks. I just thought the colors on it were very cool looking.

Doesn't this rock look like a perfect heart?

These are some of my favorite pictures. The action shots of Eli running up and down the beach. We have a lot of them, but they are all so cute. He was loving it here, and he basically loved ever beach that we went to.

Eli showing off his treasures. A little clam shell, but he thought it was "So cool mom."

Danna holding one of the many many jellyfish we found along the shore. Eli never did get up the nerve to touch one of these, but he sure found lots of them and pointed them out to me.


Another Jelly. I'm not sure who is holding this one.

One of the many crabs that were scurrying along the beach.

Eli and some of his new best friends playing on the beach. Malcom and Dana. He sure had so much fun with these guys.

Cool picture huh?

Eli digging in his water hole. He had just as much fun getting dirty and digging holes in the sand as he did doing anything else. We could have spent a whole day just playing in the sand and he would have been so okay with it.



Eli and Malcom working on something in the sand.

This picture is so precious. I'm not actually sure why he has his shoes off because the rocks on the beach actually really hurt your feet, but I just think it is the cutest thing ever that he is carrying them like that. Its just a really cute picture.

Same with this one. He just looks like he is in such deep thought and really concentrating on something.

This is Laurel. She is another one of the Dillion children ( Matt's cousins that we stayed with). This girl is amazing. She is wise beyond her years and super super good with kids. Eli loved her right from the beginning. She is so smart and more mature then a lot of twelve year olds. She was really fun to hang out with, and we actually had an opportunity to hang out with just her one afternoon and it was very very fun. As I said before, she is very smart, she went with us to the Salt Water State park and she was teaching us lots of things about the sea life that we found there. Things I definitely didn't know.

Cute little Ethan, again watching from the sidelines in his stroller. He was still just really small to be out in the sun that long in a blanket and besides, I secretly thing he enjoyed all the great naps he got out in the fresh air.

Such a cute picture of my little Cheetos monkey.


Malcom (one of the Dillion kiddos)

Danna-Do that is what we called her. She is so cute. A little girl with her own unique personality. I loved watching her.

Laurel showing off a very large Jellyfish that we found. There were hundreds of them I tell you.

A not very photogenic family, taking a family photo. Well three of us are pretty photogenic. Can you guess what three?

Here is just the four of us. Isn't Eli and Ethan just the cutest?

I don't think Matt new that Missy took this shot.

We are not very photogenic, but we have to get couple shots when we can. Just so we do have them.

Eli the little explorer. Did I mention how much fun her had just exploring and playing on the beach. I loved just watching him get so excited over finding little silly treasures. Things as simple as rocks and clam shells. He loved it.

Another of Missy's great angle shots. She got so many super cute ones of Eli just being natural and playing around. I love all of them.

This is Preston. He is the son of another of Matt's cousins Sheila. We went to there house for dinner one night why we were out there, and they also came and did a few of our activities with us. Preston is a pretty cute little six year old. He and Eli played really well together when we were over to his house. Honestly, like I said in the very beginning of all of the Seattle posts. I can't believe how much Eli opened up on this trip. He just loved everybody and played so well with all of them.

This is a Sea Urchin. Aren't they cool looking?


Mommy and Ethan giving Eskimo Kisses.


Missy and Laurel walking the beach. She really is such a great mom to these kids and they all adore her.

Ethan during one of his many naps. Still the most handsomest little 2 month old ever.

Heather and Ethan.

A closer shot of that cute little boy. Once again sleeping, but this time not in the stroller......lucky him.

Dana and Eli back at the house playing. Aubree was pulling them around in this wagon. They were having so much fun.