seattle kid sports
Why childhood vaccinations are so important for my family (and yours too)
August 30, 2024this is sponsored post about vaccinations on behalf of the Washington State Department of Health. All opinions are my own. I don’t think anybody ever thinks they’re going to get really sick. But about a year and a half ago, I got a diagnosis that ultimately changed my life forever and last year vaccinations became […]
Things to do in Seattle in April
April 3, 2023If April showers bring May flowers what might snow showers in April bring? (And let’s hope it’s only sun showers in Seattle from now on) April is such a great time to be in Seattle with all the flowers showing off, baseball season beginning and a little lull in the city just before the first […]
I Signed up for the Seattle Flu Study and So Can You
December 18, 2019This is Sponsored post on behalf of the Seattle Flu Study and all thoughts are my own.I spent the first winter of my kids’ lives in a giant bubble of hand sanitizer. With two preemie babies who had spent way too long in the hospital, there was no way I was going back. I could […]
A list of Christmas gift ideas for Seattle locals and experience gift ideas too
December 11, 2019Just in case you are looking for gifts for friends in Seattle or maybe even in the Portland/Seattle/Vancouver corridor or Christmas gift ideas in general, maybe this list might help you brainstorm. We are a family of Seattle locals and I’ve been thinking about things that we’ve found useful lately and this might help you […]
Things you should know about in Seattle if you are one of the 12’s
October 18, 2018The other day, I got a huge surprise in the mail that reminded me I need to get my Seattle Seahawks spirit glowing a little brighter now that we are well into the routine of being back at school. It’s all Seahawks all the time in our house right now (when it’s not all Sounders […]
Upping my quick and easy Seahawks party game plan for #Kickoff2018
September 6, 2018This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Decopac and as always the thoughts and opinions in this expressed are my own. When fall routines start up it’s hard to predict exactly what we’re going to be doing on any given day. We have soccer and biking and all the events that […]
A great place to learn to Skateboard and an over the top Sounders experience in Seattle
July 31, 2017I need to preface this post with how much I do not like blood and guts. I am terrified of anything that remotely has to do with injury and if anything like that happens around me, I have the potential to become an even bigger ordeal than the patient. So I really don’t mess around […]
When a soccer tournament makes a great excuse for a staycation in the Seattle Southside
November 22, 2016I may have been a bit of a green-eyed monster hearing about all the places people were going for their Thanksgiving holidays: Florida. Mexico. Hawaii. Belize. But we had a soccer tournament at the Starfire Sports Complex that cut into our holiday so flying somewhere far wasn’t meant to be. And usually the Seattle Southside […]
National Football Museum (Manchester, England)
October 28, 2016As a teenager when I dreamed of my future trip to Europe, the National Football Museum was not on my list of places I wanted to see. I wouldn’t have known that football in England means soccer in the USA and I probably wouldn’t have cared about soccer here either. Fastforward to my real life; my […]
A Book to read for Baseball Season in Seattle
April 15, 2016It’s baseball season again and now that we’ve played a few years, we’re starting to get serious. Practices are longer and we now have kid pitchers who throw the ball for part of the game. Coaches take notes on little pads of paper and I look around wondering which of the neighborhood kids might play […]
Looking for fall leaves on a family ride (Marymoor Park to Woodinville)
October 8, 2015As a mom of boys there really is no point asking if we can go get family pictures in the beautiful autumn leaves. This is what will happen: “Awww….mom!” Boy #1 “Awww…mom!!!!” Boy #2 “Do we have too?” Boy #3. The husband. So instead I ask if we want to bike ride and then I […]
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Getting ready for an October Monday in Seattle
October 5, 2015I can totally get used to these no-umbrella, sunny fall weekends in Seattle especially now that it’s soccer season. We spent the weekend tidying the house, playing soccer and bike-riding through gorgeous fall leaves (and I’ll update you on our big bike ride later this week!) but it’s perfectly autumn in Seattle right now so […]
Indoor skydiving with the family (Ifly Seattle)
October 2, 2015For birthdays in our family we like to do experience gifts. The kids have really enjoyed going to the Space Needle for Dinner for their birthday and I was thinking about what to do for my husband for his birthday. I thought a fun birthday gift might be a sight-seeing trip in a small plane […]
A family friendly hike that’s a no-brainer if you have a 4×4 but still doable if you don’t (Mirror Lake, Snoqualmie Pass, WA)
July 16, 2015A 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 […]
Another Seattle family ride: Gasworks Park to University Village
July 2, 2015Call us multi-taskers, but my kids have set me to the task of visiting 50 different parks this summer and they also want to bike ride so we decided to bike from Gas Works Park to some new-to-us park on the Burke-Gilman Trail a few miles past Uvillage. But it was hot. I was grouchy. […]
A place that makes my family feel strong (Seattle Bouldering Project)
March 3, 2015Raaaaawwr!!!! Can you believe how strong you feel when you are bouldering? Long before the kids were born the hubby and I got into rock climbing but that all stopped once the kids were born. But recently they’ve been going bouldering and I was excited when they asked me to take them for my first […]
Best breakfast with a 6 year old and other things to do in Whistler with kids in tow
February 24, 2015Before you go and think I’m going to tell you to get to Purebread for breakfast with your kids in Whistler, I’m not. I do love this bakery, but it’s more of a place I go to for a pastry and coffee and not at breakfast especially because I have a weakness for something they […]
The best cafe to wait at while your kids ski in Snoqualmie Pass (The Commonwealth, Snoqualmie Pass
January 20, 2015There 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 […]
New Year’s frozen adventuring in Mercer Slough (Bellevue, Washington)
January 2, 2015I hope 2015 will be the year of adventure. From becoming an aunt for the first time, and having trips to Tofino and California cemented in stone, and knowing the cabin will be finished sometime this year, we know there’s going to be no shortage of excitement around here for sure. So we started the […]
The awesomest park in the world is 3 hours away from Seattle (Terra Nova Rural Park, Richmond, BC)
November 21, 2014Hopefully this got your attention if you like visiting parks with kids because this one is totally worth it. We’ve been to many parks around the world and we sometimes travel just to see playgrounds like this one in Copenhagen that I saw on pinterest, or this one in Japan in a monkey forest and […]