Ready for visitors!

We’ve been in Seattle for 7 weeks now, & we are ready for visitors! My dad comes tonight, and I’m very excited. Next week, Gail & Ernie come. Then in Sept.- Tara & Riley, and then my mom. Romy comes in October.. Any other guests.. come on!  :)

We love our new house & there are only a few things we would fix. If it were ours, we would paint these white walls & get darker carpet. It’s a little light for my liking. :) Oh…and the kitchen curtains are terrible, so those will be going away soon. :) 

13802 SE 92nd Street
Newcastle, WA  98059

  
The front entry way when you walk in.

 

The front room to the right of when you walk in.

 
The Kitchen

Breakfast Nook

Family Room
     
The Office


The main guest bedroom. It has its own bathroom
which is nice for visitors.
     
The Place where we spent most of our awake time. :)

And that’s all I got for now…

First Nature Hike

We’ve been seeing a ton of trail head markers everywhere & we finally drove to one tonight with the boys. It was in Cougar Mountain National Forest. We walked a little bit & came across a cool bridge with a trickling waterfall down a clay wall. It was really neat. The trees & nature all around are just stunning. I keep asking Jason, “So we really live here?” haha!

Here are a few from tonight.

 

Here’s the little waterfall!

Trying some stunts on “the beam”
 
Landon & I came across the prettiest bright yellow leaf.
He carried it all the way home & it’s sitting in his room. :)
 

A Mother’s Love <3
  
Thank you log for taking our pic!


We miss our TEXAS family & friends SO MUCH, but we are really enjoying it here in Seattle so far. And we are so excited for our upcoming visitors!

XOXOXO

Cul-de-sac Fun!

Last night was an impromptu fun get together with all of our neighbors. We shared pizza, fruit, wine, ice cream/popsicles, etc.. It was so much fun & the boys loved it! 

Huddie multi-tasking with a popsicle, than Landon takes over driving the Escalade. :)

 
Landon & Gianna

Our neighbor Paul- perfect combo: a baby & a beer.

Jackets in July?

It’s beyond weird that we’ve been wearing jackets in the summer.  It dawned on me today that the last time I had on a jacket in July, I must have been in Colorado. It’s never happened in Texas. I will say after 5 minutes Hudson said, “jacket off please”. Haha! This morning, it was 60 outside!

We had a nice morning playing in our backyard & I’m really enjoying this Washington weather! And see below…Wow, looks like a warm front moves in on Saturday!

Did someone say Park?

I’ve always loved a good park.  Fresh grass, kids laughing & playing, parents talking, dogs running, it’s such a wonderful place to be. I’ve really enjoyed all of the phenomenal parks that are around here. And I mean like 5-10 min way. There are small ones with just a few things & then there are amazing ones that have awesome views. We’ve enjoyed our park exploring in the two and a half weeks we’ve been here.

We found a new one on Saturday called Newcastle Beach Park. There are lifeguards on duty for those that want to swim in Lake Washington. Saturday it was chilly,the high around 64 and two people were swimming. And I mean two kids were swimming. Not one bit cold & having a blast. We are such Texas wimps needing the water to be 80+ degrees. Maybe one day we will take the plunge & try the cold water. ;)

 

I spy a big kid having just as much fun! 

This is from our picnic today in Lake Boren Park.

Newcastle, Washington gains 4!

We stepped off the plane in Seattle on July 5, 2012 & said Wow, this is our new home! What a surreal feeling & also very strange. We’ve been here almost 2 weeks now & we are getting settled more and more. Our house is feeling like home & we are all really enjoying it here.  It’s been a much smoother transition than I thought—so I can’t complain. We plan to unpack more of the garage this weekend as well as hang some pictures. :)

Jason is loving his new job and working hard too. He’s working much longer hours, but that’s just part of it. Some days he gets home earlier & we have been outside pretty much every evening, all evening. We look forward to doing some lunch dates with Daddy here soon.  I’m proud of Jason for all of his hard work!

We love the neighbors all around us—we really could not have picked nicer people & the same aged kids to live by us. They all play outside at night and every Friday night they all gather for Happy Hour and the kids play. SCORE! I’ll have my wine glass ready around 4 pm! ;)

Here are a few pics from the past two weeks. More to come as we will soon venture out and see some of the surrounding sights!

At a park at the end of our street

Found another park on the next street over

    
 
Snowqualmie Falls – absolutely stunning! 30 min. from our house

Our backyard
 
Landon found himself a girlfriend in no time.
 

Gram came for a week & we loved having her here!
 

  We miss everyone in TEXAS! Come visit us very soon!