Grandma and Grandpa's House

We took a trip down to Washington in June to visit the grandparents. There was beautiful, sunny weather the whole time. We all enjoyed hanging outside, eating and lounging.

The gravel in the backyard has always brought hours to fun to our kids at all ages.

Pork ribs, anyone?

They played hard and slept hard.

And Caleb liked that Grandpa helped him get to places he couldn't normally play.

One day we went out the family cabin and had all sorts of fun.

Here we are discovering root beer.

And making the most of our s'mores.

The kids got to stay with Grandma and Grandpa alone for a night while the two of us parents escaped off to Bainbridge Island. We had delicious crepes at a restaurant where all the staff are flown to Paris for training, and we stayed in a lovely little cottage.

We also got to see some cousins and drive some cars.

And we met some more cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents for a nice picnic dinner.

We only had a few roasting sticks so we tried to develop a more efficient way to work with what we had. It was great for melting the chocolate and toasting the crackers, but the marshmallows just expanded into the grate and stuck there so it wasn't ideal. But we learned something.

And that was our Seattle visit in a nutshell.