Catching Up With Fun From Last Week

A trip to Imagine Children's Museum In Everett:

Art class in town:



Playing with bubbles on a sunny day:

and planting pumpkin and sunflower seeds:

Mystery Trip

This weekend my hubby & I surprised our three kiddos with a mystery trip. They had no idea where we were going or what was planned, other than it was going to be fun, fun, fun!

As the date of the trip grew closer, they managed to get out us that we were headed to Oregon, but they still had no idea where.

Then the day before, they managed to get out of us that we would be staying in Portland.

After even more needling (three hours to be exact), we managed to keep the big surprise a secret until we got to our hotel. We finally revealed that we were going to the big Lego convention in town, BrickFest 2009. Knowing they were in a hotel with an indoor swimming pool and on-demand movies was huge enough, but a Lego convention? Kewl!(as all the kids say/write). And it was so much fun hearing our three year say he couldn't wait to go to the "Lego combention".

While in Portland we ate at two really great vegan/vegetarian restaurants, Vegetarian House and Old Wives' Tales Restaurant:
http://www.vegetarianhouse.com/
http://www.oldwivestalesrestaurant.com/
I've got to give them each a huge shout out. We will visit both again the next time we are in Portland - so yummy and both had excellent, friendly service.

Without further adieu, some photo highlights of our weekend: