Seattle

Earlier this month, Micah and I were able to go to Seattle without the kids! The main reason why we decided to go to Seattle was to go to a BYU football game.

Here is Micah and I with his dad at the Washington football stadium which overlooks Lake Washington.


That night we were able to go a Seattle Mariners baseball game with Tim and Mark Heumann. The New York Yankees were in town which was a real treat!




Micah and I love waterfalls. We drove an hour outside of Seattle to see this one.


This sign says the name of the beautiful waterfall we were able to see.





Before we flew home we were able to go to downtown Seattle to Pike's Market and to eat at Ivars!



Here we are at Deception Pass!



We were able to go to the grounds of the Seattle temple. Across the way was a wooded area with tons of blackberries. One of my favorite parts of the trip was picking fresh blackberries.

When we came home one of the first things I did was make blackberry jam! Yum Yum!

Happy First Birthday Eliza!

Our sweet baby Eliza turned one on Saturday. She is our football baby! The day she was born was the opening day of college football and this year her birthday fell on BYU's first football game of the season. Because of that we celebrated her birthday on Sunday and had a really fun party. She really enjoyed eating her cake!

Here are a few endearing things about Eliza that make us love her so much.

1. Her teeth have come in an unusual way. The first teeth to come in were two on the top, but not the two you would think, making her smile all the prettier!

2. She loves to point at people and say hi. This makes her a hit whenever we go shopping, she will randomly point at someone, look at them and say hi. This definitely catches people off guard to be greeted by a baby, but most the time they respond to her by smiling and saying hi. I think it the cutest things!

3. She loves music. When Micah and I play the piano, she crawls over and stands against the piano playing the top keys while bobbing her head and shaking her stuff. Her favorite is when Micah plays "Boomba"!

4. One of her favorite places to play is in the dishwasher. She loves to help unload it by throwing all the silverware on the floor.

5. She loves playing with Ethan and Emma, especially with Ethan's trains and Emma's dolls. If she starts annoying them, they will carry her away from where they are playing to the other side of the room, but she quickly crawls back over to where they are.

Eliza holding one of Ethan's train not knowing what to think of the fire on her cake.

Posing with my Aunt Mary with her musical Elephant, trying to keep Emma from taking it away from her!

Admiring her new doll with Grandma and Grandpa Monson.


Consider this your "hi" from Eliza!