A Beautiful Sunday!

This past weekend we were blessed with amazing weather - YES, here in the Puget Sound!! On Sunday after church we headed up to Kirkland to see a friend of mine and her new baby (along with her 2 year old and her mom). Simone and I lived/studied together in Venezuela during our Jr. year of high school as exchange students. She moved here with her husband about 2 years ago and I think we've seen each other 3 times since then. So when I heard she was moving to Miami, I knew we had to go see her!

Simone holding Alina, Me holding Baby Julia and Baby Ashley,
Katelynn and Daddy (so bummed we didn't get Peggy in there!)

 She just had a baby 4 weeks ago (and looks AMAZING!), had her house (and car!) packed up by the movers, and has been living at a friend's house with her 2 girls and her mom who's been visiting for a few weeks and will travel with her and the girls to Miami in 2 days. Whew!
Thank God for Grandmas!!! I don't envy Simone at all for all that she's going through (and will go through over the next few days!) but she's amazing and I know she'll go GREAT!! It was so good to see her and her mom, and of course her little kiddos! I even got to hold the baby! :)

ANYWAY....all that to say, we had great time at a park so the bigger girls could play and the mommas could chat. (And thanks to my wonderful hubby who took care of our littlest one most of the time!)

After our visit we decided to take a ferry across the sound for a long, scenic drive home. (and a yummy dinner in Poulsbo!!) It was Katelynn's first ride on a ferry so it was a big adventure!! And it just so happened that our ferry was named the "Spokane" (where I'm from)! We had someone take a photo of us with the sign but he didn't quite get all of us. Oh well. The 2nd photo he took was much better! Katelynn had so much fun out on the boat deck. It was such a beautiful day!

just a bit windy!!

my pretty little flower girl!