long weekend

we had such a fun memorial weekend this year. i'm kinda sad it's over and we have to go back to "real" life tomorrow. this is what we've been up to:

Friday night we were planning on going camping with some friends, but decided to bag it for a few reasons, the biggest being that we didn't think brooklin would do too well since it's still pretty chilly at night. so, instead we had a bonfire and made foil dinners and s'mores. so, it was like we were camping, but we got to go home to our nice warm beds at the end of the evening. we had a lot of fun hanging out and cooking over the fire. and brooklin enjoyed playing in the rocks and dirt.


saturday afternoon we went to the ski to sea parade, which has become tradition. brooklin has been going since she was a fetus. :) she was a little more interested this year. she watched about half and spent the other half playing in some rocks in the flowerbed at the church we were sitting in front of. this girl loves rocks for some reason. when she was watching she was really cute. she really liked the marching bands and she waved at everyone passing by, especially the firemen in the fire engines.




after the parade we put brookie down for a nap, which ended up being one of those marathon naps (3+hours) and then ran a few errands. when we got home we decided to start painting brooklin's room. we bought the paint a few months ago, just never got around to it. so, while scotty and i painted, brooklin played in her crib with just about every toy she owns. i think she thought it was pretty cool that everything was in her bed. she was entertained for quite some time, especially because she had a bowl of cheerios in there, which she decided to smash into her sheet. we got about half way done and decided to stop for the evening. so, after vacuuming out brooklin's bed we all hit the sack.




sunday we of course went to church, and then after we finished up our painting project (pictures to come), and then headed over to my parents' for dinner, which was delicious. we also got to use our beautiful singing voices and sing happy birthday to my big bro who just turned... well, it's not polite to tell other peoples' age when they get old. :)

this morning we headed down to seattle to go to the woodland park zoo. we had a blast! the weather was great, the animals were great, and brooklin was great. i love going to the zoo, and i was so glad that scotty took the day off and we were able to have such a fun time together.















when we got back into town we grabbed something to eat and then headed over to my parents' to make some more s'mores. yumm!




so, that was our busy but oh so fun weekend. like i said before, i'm kinda sad i have to go back to "real" life tomorrow, but there's always next weekend, right? :)