Seattle

When we got a list of meets for Morgan to compete in this year we knew right away that we would attend the meet in Tacoma, Washington.  Lance's sister and her family as well as Lance's cousin and his family live in the area so it was a great opportunity to visit family.

Little did we know when we decided to take the trip in August that our dear friends would be moving to the Seattle area in November.

Thanks to a great deal from Southwest Airlines, we were able to fly and spend an extra day visiting our family and friends {yeah for not driving 8 hours although i love road trips!}.

We arrived in Seattle on Thursday evening and headed to our friends home.  The excitement from an almost 7 year old boy to see his best buddy was hard to contain!  Their reunion was priceless.  

We spent the early part of Friday morning catching up and letting the kids play.  I know if I had these windows and this view I would probably not get much done each day.  Even with Seattle cloudiness there was something peaceful and relaxing about those big open windows.

By mid morning we were ready to head out and do a little site seeing.  We went downtown Seattle to see the Space Needle and walk in the surrounding area.  

We decided to skip the $20 trip per person to the top and just enjoyed walking around it, trying to get pictures, and visiting the gift shop.

We took a trip on the monorail down to the mall area.  Of course a pit stop at Starbucks was necessary.  

After getting our coffee/hot chocolate, we walked across the street to the see a waterfall where the kids could run through it.  Landon was brave enough to run through it and got pretty wet. Morgan opted to just get her picture taken in front of it.

The boys loved watching these men play chess in the courtyard.  Landon has been watching/learning chess at our co op on Mondays.  He thought this large chess board was great!

After our afternoon in Seattle we met up with Lance's sister and cousins for dinner.  It was a relaxing evening filled with many stories, laughter, and adult conversation without interruption while the kids played.  

We got up at the crack of dawn on Saturday to drive to Morgan's meet.  I was so nervous for her since this would be the first time she really had a crowd to watch her compete and it was her first competition back after hurting her arm pit.  Morgan did great.  Before each meet she sets goals and at this meet she met all of her goals.  She was focused and competed with confidence.  She placed on every event, finished in the top half of her age group, and had her highest all around of the season.  

After her meet we headed to watch cousin Logan play in his basketball game.  It was fun to be there to watch him play ball.  We were all starving after a long morning so we headed out to linner {lunch/dinner}.  We spent the rest of the evening enjoying some intense Just Dance 2 competitions.  {after i got home i realized i didn't get any pics of the cousins.  we were so busy chatting and relaxing i didn't even think to get pics}

We had a wonderfully relaxing Sunday.  We enjoyed hearing our friend Todd preach at his new church in the morning and a trip to Trader Joe's in the afternoon while the dads took the kids to play at the park.

We were at the airport at the crack of dawn for our flight home.  The early morning was worth a heart filled full of fun, relaxation, and love.  Thanks Pucketts, Grahams, and Curnows for a great weekend in Seattle.