Keeping Busy!

Kevin has been out of town for a week, on business, and we still have a couple of days to go. I've been trying to keep myself and the girls busy. This post contains some of the things we've been up to.



Today Taylor and I spent a special day together at her friend Eli's 3rd birthday party. Thank you to Grandma Debbie for babysitting Hailey so we could have some quality one on one time! We went to the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie, WA. We had a great time!




Here we are in our private train car. We ate and opened gifts in here. They also had Thomas train sets out for the kids to play with.


We also got to take a real train ride to Snoqualmie Falls and back. Taylor LOVED this portion of our trip.

Our little conductor!


The Daffodil Parade
Saturday we went to Tacoma's Daffodil Parade. We were blessed with sunshine for a change!


Taylor's flower balloon was one of her favorite things from the day. She also enjoyed the bounce toy, playing in the toddler area on the slides, and of course cheering for the princesses in the parade.



A Play Date with Emily


We went to Taylor's friend, Emily's house. The girls got to decorate sugar cookies. Taylor mostly ate the frosting and enjoyed every minute of it.

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Anonymous said…
Looks like you had a wonderful time with Taylor. What fun! The train ride and the decorating of the cookies looked like fun. I'm so glad you do so many fun things with the girls. Taylor always looks like she is having such a fun time. Give the girls a big love from us.

Love GGrandpa and GGrandma Smith
6:59 PM
Shirley Casey said…
How fun! Emily would love the train too! What a great idea. I hope you survived Kevin being gone. We had a lot of fun having you guys over. Lets do it again soon.
9:42 PM
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