Stay-cation in Seattle

This last weekend Seth and I took the boys to Seattle and stayed a couple of days! The city pass is the coolist thing ever! We went to the seattle aquarium, pike place market, a cruise tour of elliott bay, the music and science fiction museum and the space needle all on saturday what a day! we ate the best food down on the pier and the boys were sooo good even with how tired they had to be! On Sunday we went to the pacific science center and then to the woodland park zoo and the city pass included all of these things, its so great you dont have to wait in line for anything! i highly recommend it! We stayed in a fancy hotel because we were only staying for one night so why not, it was the boys first stay in a hotel since we had both of them and they loved it especially all of the elevator rides but it was a chore keeping them out of the mini bar, where a snickers bar cost five dollars!! Seth and i on the other hand have had our fill of elevator rides for at least another year or so, we had to take elvators to do everything even to ride the train! It was the best mini vacation and a good trial for the kids who proved to travel very well! What a perfect weekend! i am so blessed and thankful for my house of boys! Hope you all had a good one!

Whats new with us

so, what's new with us? I have been really bad about updating this, but we have been having a really great summer! we just had my nephew James for a whole week and we had sooo much fun! For those of you who know me well, little James is now thirteen and not soo little anymore! My boys had so much fun with thier "tousin" as my boys would say, and we miss him already! We are planning a trip to Vegas in december and James is going with us and i can't wait!
This week we also got to welcome Riley Jordan Carlson to the world and he is precious, congratulations Jason and Kayla we love you all so much and are so lucky to have you all in our lives:)
This weekend we had some old friends come over and we had so much fun, i actually had a few drinks and we stayed up playing the wii until two thirty in the morning which is rare for us, the boys even got stay up until midnight and they thought that was just the greatest! Thank you Josh and Katie we had a blast! On Saturday we went to the car show in kittitas and then the burn out contest which was so fun! i know im in trouble when the kids get older because all they love are jeeps, trucks and loud exhaust!(so much like their daddy, but that's a good thing) We got all of our school shopping done and seth rhino lined his Jeep, pretty great weekend!