Why work in the city and wait for the weekend to play in the mountains when you can have an office in the mountains and do both? I had the opportunity to visit the Passlife Workspace near the Summit at Snoqualmie Pass recently with a group of women I’ve met through instagram and this is […]
To say I was excited about Laconia Market opening in Snoqualmie Pass near the Summit at Snoqualmie is an understatement. We drove past the old firehouse that it’s housed in nearly every weekend as it was renovated to watch it become the beautiful space it is now. We’ve been part-time in the mountains for nearly […]
(This is a sponsored post on behalf of Sconza Chocolates and as always the opinions in this post and on this blog are my own. We love riding through the Snoqualmie Tunnel) Around the same time the Snoqualmie Tunnel in Washington near where where we spend our weekends was in its planning stages, a boy […]
Maybe it’s starting to feel like winter is over in the city, but Snoqualmie Pass set a record for snow this year and there is still a snowy wonderland just a short drive from Seattle. We’ve been loving cabin life in the mountains and the Summit is such a great mountain for families. Spring skiing […]
A few weeks ago when we had the use of a decked-out Toyota 4-Runner the hubby reminisced about camping and hiking trips from bygone days when we used to borrow his aunt’s 4-runner and explore. He found a hike in Snoqualmie Pass where we’ve been hanging out a lot lately and it seemed pretty kid-friendly […]
While we’ve been a little sad about the lack of the snow in the mountains, it hasn’t been horrible for building and hiking and biking with kids in these wintery months has been so fun because it’s so gorgeous and mild. If you’ve been following our cabin building progress, we’ve learned that building in the […]
There aren’t a ton of options for food in the Snoqualmie Pass area and because we’ve been there so often lately, we’ve managed to try a bunch of them and find some favorites. I love Webbs (they have a thoughtful kid’s menu) and Red mountain coffee is quite cute and has pretty inexpensive ice cream […]
Everywhere in Seattle the leaves are putting on the best show they can and I’m trying to snap as many pictures of my kids as possible because it is just too beautiful to stop and one day they probably won’t want me taking so many pictures any more. I’ve also decided that because of this […]
I recently posted stories on my instagram during a morning adventure at Pike Place Market with a friend and had a lot of messages about where we went so I thought I’d write them up here. I know a lot of tourists wonder if we Seattleites really go to Pike Place Market. Many of us […]
Why on earth is this Seattle list only for May to October? Is it the weather? Is it school holidays? Or is it because this is the time when all the cruise ships come to our city? From May to October in Seattle, our city feels like we get a little more packed. And I […]
Did we just survive the longest month ever and are we going to blink and have February disappear too? It still feels like we might get one more weather system before all the cherry blossoms start to pop but you might want to start keeping an eye on the UW cherry blossom forecast here. And […]
Just like Halloween and Christmas start slowly sneaking into summer, annual advent calendars start popping up earlier and earlier every year too. I’m not sure what I’ll be doing for this year’s calendar yet but there are a few that have caught my eye. I’ll add the ones I see to the list below and […]
The first time I heard about Proto101 was when I was at the Northwest Flower and Garden show in February. I parked near Pacific Place and stopped in to check out a few stores. I noticed Proto101 on the main floor across from where Tiffany used to be and it immediately caught my eye. And […]
Every time we do the Lodge Lake hike I think it’s going to be a lot longer than it actually is. From the trailhead, it’s about 2-2.5 hours round trip if you don’t stop much. But Lodge Lake is one of my favorite Snoqualmie Pass trails especially for the first half an hour-I don’t even […]
I booked the Lodge at Columbia Point for the TBEX conference in the Tri-Cities in Washington in April 2022. I hadn’t traveled alone for awhile and wanted a comfortable hotel with a balcony. I used Expedia to book a corner Grand Cru Riverfront Premium room and it was spacious, and clean and I knew I […]
This was a sponsored post on behalf of Grand Ridge Plaza in Issaquah Washington and Regency Centers for the Nix the List Sweepstakes and as always the thoughts and ideas in the post are my own- the winners were drawn but I’ve kept the post up just in case you’re headed to Suncadia and are […]
This is a sponsored post on behalf of Uncle Bob’s Butter Country syrup and as always the thoughts and ideas in this post are my own. Summer season in our house is a time for more leisurely breakfasts and weekends spent at the lake or on an early morning hike. Around June we always look […]
We were supposed to go to Palm Springs in April but the kids weren’t vaccinated yet and we also realized we weren’t ready for an airplane trip with kids and a dog in tow. Instead we decided that there is still so much close to Seattle that we want to see and if there is […]
This is a post created in partnership with Grand Ridge Plaza in Issaquah Washington and Regency Centers to help shoppers discover the community resources that help them flourish and all thoughts and opinions are my own. Why my Seattle family shops at Issaquah Highlands Grand Ridge Plaza Although we live in Seattle, we spend a […]
Add researching how to cut your own Christmas tree to the list of local firsts we’ve tried in Seattle in 2020. We usually go to the same tree farm in North Bend where we’ve gone almost exclusively for the past 10 or 11 years. But this year we were worried about distancing and not sure […]