FAMILY TRAVELS
Hawaii 2011-where do we begin?
June 27, 2011Travel is getting easier with the duo. At nearly four years old, they can almost navigate themselves and they are a lot more self-sufficient. We went to Oahu a couple weeks ago and had a blast at the Outrigger Reef on the beach. It was a low-key trip where we planned just to sit on […]
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Maui Ocean Center (Wailuku, HI)
May 16, 2011The cloudy days around this years’ Mother’s Day made me reminisce for the first plane trip we took with the kids when they were 9 months old. We thought that Maui would be a good idea, and that they would love splashing their feet on the beach. They did not really love the ocean or […]
Read MorePana ‘ewa Zoo (Hilo, HI)
May 13, 2011When we went to the Big Island with our family and the grandparents last August, I needed an excuse to drive an hour or so to Hilo to get this mochi I read about and couldn’t leave Hawaii without trying: . It is from a place called The Two Ladies Kitchen and they are famous […]
Read MoreSan Diego Zoo (San Diego, California)
April 13, 2011We are a definitely a zoo family, (we frequent our local Woodland Park Zoo at least once a week!) so when we went to San Diego we made sure to spend a couple days at the World Famous San Diego Zoo. We debated whether or not to use our strollers, but I’m so glad we […]
Read MoreCafe 222 (San Diego, California)
April 1, 2011A couple blocks away from the New Children’s Museum in San Diego is a lovely little cafe that my hubby went to without me (TWICE!) when he came to San Diego (sans double stroller and haggard baby-momma) one time on a conference. Naturally I wanted to go to, so when we visited San Diego with […]
Read MoreGlamping at the Paradise Point in San Diego
March 30, 2011I love the outdoors but I prefer to be somewhere near civilization at the very same time. It’s not that I’m a diva or anything, but when I’m away from my own home I do like comfortable beds, big bathtubs and fancy toiletries. So when I heard about Paradise Point in San Diego I was […]
Read MoreI HEART the New Children’s Museum (San Diego)
March 11, 2011The New Children’s Museum seemed like a funky, artsy-fartsy and ‘grown up’ chic-sparse place to me when I first read about it, so I wasn’t sure how it would actually be in reality for the toddlers. I knew I would probably love it though so when I saw it had free admission with our Kidsquest […]
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Pancake Toppings Buffet at Portage Bay Cafe (South Lake Union, Seattle)
March 3, 2011Apparently it was pancake week this week and while we’ve been enjoying lots of pancakes at home lately (thank you Snoqualmie Pancake Mix) I think we owe the guys’ flapjack love to the Portage Bay Cafe one of favorite places to get pancakes in Seattle. Our current favorite is the “Dave’s Way” pancake that comes […]
Read MoreHow to Babyproof a hotel room (Kaanapali, Maui)
February 11, 2011I could also have called this post “Slice of Heaven at the Mahana”, as it was this hotel that proved to us that we could travel with babies when we went there in 2009(beachfront, suite-style hotel rooms, in room laundry, and kitchen with dishwasher), but when we got there this trip was definitely more a […]
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Tigh-na-Mara (Parksville, Vancouver Island)
January 30, 2011When I booked this trip, I never imagined how much of an impact it was going to make on our lives-the above pic is now hanging in our living room! My friend S had just gone to the Tigh-Na-Mara resort with her husband and raved about a fabulous spa dining experience and I found a […]
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Tutta Bella Pizza (Wallingford)
January 12, 2011You know it’s going to be a good night when your kid looks like this before a meal: My other guy takes it a little more seriously…..he knows what’s coming.We all love Happy Hour night at Tutta Bella pizza. So much so that when the pizza came, I forgot to take pictures this time. I love that […]
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More California pics…
January 11, 2011I’m working on our video, so I keep finding pics I love. Here are a couple more from the California trip, the beach picture being my favorite EVER! admin
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Olympic Sculpture Park (Seattle, WA)
December 1, 2010After our second trip to the post office, we finally got Baby R her package in the mail and Auntie P’s noodle card delivered. And then the boys wanted to go to Fred Meyer. They love the big drivable cars. But because it was glorious outside and we only have so many of these spectacular […]
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Seattle Public Library Spanish Storytime(Downtown Seattle, WA)
November 29, 2010I’m not sure how a trip to the post office brought us downtown to the library, but we had a great morning riding the escalators, shopping in the “Friends of the Library” store and hanging out in the Children’s section. The only two pictures I got from this morning are here: They don’t do the […]
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U-Cut Trees at Christmas Creek(North Bend, WA)
November 28, 2010Early Saturday morning we headed up to North Bend Washington to try cutting down a Christmas tree for the very first time. We didn’t do much research for this endeavor, so when we saw “Christmas Creek” had a working website, was 3o minutes from Seattle and had a decent “Yelp“(albeit from 3 years ago!) we […]
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Pacific Science Center (Seattle, WA)
November 12, 2010More and more research points to children needing early experiences with science and math to be successful in school and life. By purchasing a Pacific Science Center membership you can guarantee that your wee ones get early exposure just by taking them to the museum. The Pacific Science Center has a great toddler area with […]
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The Grilled Cheese Grill (Portland, OR)
If your toddler dreamed up the perfect lunch, this would be it. Grilled cheese…on a bus. The Grilled Cheese Grill in Northeast Portland has seating on their patio or in their delightfully renovated school bus where you can munch your five dollar “Southsider”(Artichokes, Sundried Tomato, Mushrooms and Mozzarella on Sourdough) while your toddler chows down […]
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