Center for Wooden Boats

Today's adventure was to South Lake Union to the Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) It was a nice sunny day to walk on the docks and look at the boats.



One of the wooden boats under sail. I loved the colors on this.


The CWB has pond boats available to sail across the pond in the park.


Erika and Daddy launch our boat, The Poseidon.


Erika on the other side of the pond.


Erika catching the boat.


Catie is not sure about all of this.


One of the boats on display at the CWB.


And of course, where ever there is water, the Wetzel girls need to go wading. I need to just keep towels in the minivan at all times.

Blue Angles - Part I

Blue Angles Practice - Part II

After we watched the Blue Angles march to their fighters and take off, we returned to the main parking lot to watch them practice.


What's this I hear?


It's Fat Albert practicing a dive.


Catie was both amazed and awed by the performance



More formation practice.


Miranda is glad for the pink ear plugs.

Blueberry Picking

The blueberries are finally ripe out here and we went picking with our friends, the Foxes. Here, Miranda takes a break from picking to look at the goodies in the backpack.



Erika and Takara discuss important blueberry information.


A close-up of Erika.


And Catie gets in on the hat fun.

Outdoor Concert

Misc. Summer shots

Miranda (blue) and Catie (pink) have some fun snuggling on the couch.



Erika gets in on the chair share action with Miranda.


Catie is busy doing important experiments with cotton balls and Q-tips.

And yes, that is sunshine in the background! Yes!

Sunny day = Painting

It was a sunny afternoon today and the girls wanted to paint some rocks. However, the rocks were not as exciting as painting oneself. Here, Miranda demonstrates good color coordination by painting her face and hair to match her dress.



Catie slowly joins in the fun.


Erika approves with a red dot on her nose. She liked the idea of putting the paint on the rocks.


Now Catie joins in with her twin. Note Miranda's hand and with a loaded paint brush coming in for a landing.

Early bath night tonight.

Seahurst Park

It was an overcast morning, about 67F and drizzly, so we went to the beach! Well, the shores of Puget Sound. This park is about 30 min. from our house. Across the water is Vashon where Aunt Jayne lives.


Miranda did not want to get out of her jammies.

There were Naturalists on site this morning to answer questions and give out free stuff at our favorite place: the Seattle Aquarium

Catie wanted to wear a summer dress.


Not exactly the Jersey Shore, but we had fun!

Tooth fairy to visit

Erika lost her other front tooth at dinner tonight. That makes for a total of five teeth lost so far.

Paging the tooth fairy.