Monday, November 26, 2007

The Belnap's Visit

I love it when company comes to visit because it is a great excuse to do all the "touristy" type attractions in the area. We had a great time showing my sister and her family all around Seattle.

We started off the day after Thanksgiving at the Holiday Parade in Seattle.
Ellie enjoyed seeing all the balloon displays and dancing snowmen, trees and clowns.
Ellie was SO excited to see Santa! This is going to be a fun holiday season!
We took the Belnap's to one of our favorite places in Seattle... Pike's Place Market.
Watching the fisherman throw the fish around. Notice the doughnut in Ellie's hand... the highlight of the day was the little doughnut shop at Pike's Place where you get HOT doughnuts that they make right in front of you.. yummy!
Saturday night we went to the Bellevue Botanical Gardens light display.
The kids loved see the light displays. The highlights were the pond display with a swan, the spider and its web, and the butterflies.

We also went to Snowflake Lane in downtown Bellevue on Saturday night. Drummers march down the lane and dance to Christmas music. Ellie's favorite part was the candy canes that they passed out. My favorite was the cold "bubble" snow that they shoot off of the top of the mall. It was fun to watch the drummers march down the lane and listen to Christmas music.The cousins left at 6 am on Sunday morning. We were sad to see them go. Ellie keeps asking "Where cousins go mommy? I sorry." It is so sad! It is like she thinks that she did something wrong and that is why the left! The poor thing! At least we get to see them in a month!

Thanks for coming to visit! We miss you guys already!

5 comments:

Dewi said...

How fun! When we saw the ad for the parade, we were sad cause we're going to miss it. Glad you all had a great time with family. I can see how excited Ellie was. So sad when she thought she did something wrong when cousins are gone though :(

The Reichmans said...

Looks like fun-I have been to pike's place a couple of times with Kacey and it is really cool. I am super impressed that you cooked a turkey!

Christie said...

So fun sis! Wish we could have been there!

Olivia McCord said...

Sounds like Ellie needs a sibling...;) I can say that because we're such good friends. PS - Our new home teacher just returned from a mission to Guatemela were Pres. Clarke is infamous

Ang said...

They are so cute! I didn't realize when I was playing football that my little buddy Zack was your nephew!