...twirl dresses... one baby fish and tons of smiles...

...and the weekend was great.

we had a blast with the girls. friday night we went to bingo night at lily and chloe’s school, arthur jacobsen elementary. it was a little intense, but fun! lily did win bingo once- that was rad for her. ella’s attention span for bingo lasted about, oh 3 and a half minutes. about as long as she is old.

saturday was a rockin’ day too. lily had a soccer game in the morning and she played really well. the team unfortunately lost- but it was great practice. we then cruised up to ravenna where my great friend sonja runs zeek’s pizza. she hooked us up with a great time. we had terrific pizza which we destroyed, and a little soda pop... and sonja wrapped up our trip with asking one of her pizza makers to ‘do a show’ for the girls. he tossed the dough so high; they loved it! she also gave us all some dough to play with. the girls pretty much thought that was the coolest thing since... well, cooked sliced bread.

we cruised a bit around northgate mall just to give the girls something to do... we stopped at macy’s. the girls had an absolute hey-day trying on ‘twirl dresses’. they all tried on some of the fanciest dresses they could find. dave picked out some gorgeous dresses for them to model in. we had a blast and we didn’t even buy any dresses! we headed home and the girls were tired... modeling is a rough job. they fell asleep with a quickness...

sunday was just as fun but a bit colder. we headed out to the lock’s! the girls had never been. this was their second trip to the city in one weekend... lily said she wanted to live in seattle. it was freezing cold- when we left auburn it wasn’t too cold (although i should’ve taken a clue from my mother’s text asking if it was snowing....). so we got to the lock’s and we bundled up... thankfully there were some avid boaters aka crazy people on the water so the girls could see how the lock’s work. lily and chloe were pretty amazed at the whole thing. we then went down to the fish ladder and there were no fish. well, there was this baby little fish that i think ella might have spied first. we were surprised to see that there weren’t any fish, because the booming voice overhead in the fish ladder area told us that one breed should be traveling january though may. psssh. disappointing but it’s just another thing to go back and do in the summer time. we snapped a few pictures and hit the road. we cruised to archee mcphees and the girls (okay all of us!) had a blast. such a goofy store. they have this weird gadget/science-y section that we all thought garrett would love. hopefully we can take him there sometime.

that wrapped up our weekend.... it was busy, full and tons of fun.

dave and i have the open house at the euro institute tonight. i’m very stoked to see the facility and meet some instructors and students. we’ll see where this adventure leads...

happy monday everyone. hope your weekend was swell. enjoy the sun... i hear it’s going to be gone again soon.

*sonja* i’m smiling especially big for you.