We celebrated NYE at Daniel's Broiler in Bellevue. It was such a fun evening being surrounded by dear friends and love ones! Avery had a little too much fun playing with his cousins and the first time we actually let him stay up wayyyy past his bedtime! It was totally worth the hug and kisses [...]
Another successful year of visiting Santa Claus with no tears! So glad that Avery and Santa got to chat a bit and walked away with a big Santa hug!
Card : Minted Photographer : Sara Martinez (friend) Location : West Point Lighthouse
This years costume theme is "Let Love Bloom"! I dressed up Andre as a farmer; scored his farmers overalls at Carhartt and purchased some gardening tools over at Goodwill. For Avery, I dressed him up as a gnome and purchased his costume off Amazon. He wouldn't keep the beard on, but who cold blame him [...]
Trunk-or-treat is pretty new to me, but it’s been around for about 15 years now. Many suburban and rural areas opt for these events for safety reasons, or because of a lack of close neighbors to do actual trick-or-treating. Trunk-or-treat events can be large, almost like a school fun fair, with lots of games and [...]
Avery is an train fanatic and when I came across the Mt. Rainier Railroad & Logging Museum’s Great Pumpkin Patch Express, I knew that this was the Fall activity of the century!!! I purchased the First Class ticket so that we can all be a bit more comfortable. We boarded the mid-century 1940s Olympian Hiawatha [...]
I’ll be the first to admit that a trip to Sacramento was never really on the top of my bucket list. My main reason to go to Sacramento was that Andre had an work event to go to. I went into my stay thinking there would be no way I’d write a blog post on [...]
