i love the weekends

I love the weekends.

My friend jackie recently got her Master's degree from UW and on saturday we went to a little party to celebrate her. way to go jackie! it was a fun little BBQ and the kiddos got to interact with a little dog, which was entertaining to watch. they weren't really sure at first, but then they decided little dogs were pretty fun. :)

we drove to the party (at debe and rob's, in seattle), a funny round-about way to avoid UW graduation traffic. the way we went followed the bike trail and we saw a tandem with a bike trailer go past! So on Sunday we went on our own little bike ride. we went to Wilmot Gateway Park in Woodinville, which is where we'll be having the kiddos' birthday party. (It's the same place we had the bike picnic for our wedding for those of you who went to that.) It took us about half an hour to bike there, then we stayed and played in the grass and on the baby swing for a bit over an hour and then we biked back. we learned that kaylee does not like her helmet at all (we eventually took it off, otherwise it was clear we weren't going to be going at all) and that other people bike with part of the trailer uncovered. our trailer has a few layers of "cover" so after noticing that all the other trailers were less covered than ours we rolled up the main rain-proof cover and just left the bug-shield down. the babies didn't mind either way, they were asleep most of the time, but I think getting a breeze is nice, so hopefully it wasn't too much of one!

we also learned that the kiddos love the baby swing. blake was doubtful about putting them in the swing back to back, but later he said it was his favorite part of the day. ethan loved it, but kaylee really loved it - she was just squealing and giggling the whole time.

anyway, here are a few pics.

more pics might come later, but blogger kept crashing while I tried to upload these so... that's all for now.