Alyeska Blueberry Festival

My Mom, Jon, Kyla and I went to the blueberry festival at Alyeska resort. We walked around the booths, had a snack and took Kyla to the kids zone to color stickers and decorate her blueberry picking bucket. It was a nice little festival that none of us had been to before. We then took the chairlift up the mountain to go blueberry picking. We took a little path in the trees that designed for biking with lots of bridges to cross looking for blueberries. There were not too many blueberries to pick, but we had a nice little walk down the mountain anyway. We did have enough blueberries to make blueberry pancakes the next morning.

Seattle and Canada Trip

Jon, Kyla and I went to Seattle for a four day weekend to visit family and attend his cousin Ryan's Wedding in Canada. We had a great time and as always fit as much visiting with everyone as we could into a short trip.

Thursday morning are day started with Rory and Lauren coming over to spend the day with Kyla, Mary and me, while Jon worked all day. We went to the zoo and had so much fun. Kyla got to see all of the animals that we do not have at our zoo, like elephants, giraffes, hippos, flamingos, monkeys, gorillas, reptiles, turtles... She always see's those animals in all of our books that talk about zoo's and it is so funny because now she will go through the books and tell me which animals are at our zoo and which ones are at her cousins zoo. Later in the day Grandma Helen, David & Lisa, Brad & Shannon and all their kids came over for Dinner at Brian and Mary's and we had a little birthday celebration for Kyla.

Friday we went down to the village for the girls to play on the playground and to do a little shopping and get lunch. That evening we went to watch Lauren at her water ballet performance, it was one of the cutest things I have ever seen. we loved watching all of the groups perform, but Lauren was especially great. Kyla absolutely loved it and sat so still the entire time, afterwards she said she wanted to do water ballet too, however first she needs to learn to swim. She was even pretending to do some of the things that the kids were doing in their performances as she watched, it was a lot of fun.

Saturday we drove up to Canada for Ryans wedding, we had a pretty full day between the drive up there, the ceremony, cocktail hour and reception. It was a beautiful ceremony and Jon's cousin Peter was the Priest. We really enjoyed seeing so much of the family that we usually only get the chance to see every other year in Sunriver. The cocktail hour and reception were also a lot of fun and in such a beautiful place right on the water. We were very happy that we had the chance to go to their wedding.

Sunday we headed back to Seattle early and went over to David and Lisa's house for lunch more visiting and watching the blue angels fly over their house. As always it was hard to leave and Kyla had such a great time being spoiled by her cousins every second of the day. We had a great time!