Washington State Visit

We went to Washington State in the middle of August this year to visit my Nana! We left Texas early Saturday morning and arrived in Washington around lunch time. On one of our layovers the boys were invited to fly the plane, which was so neat! Zayne was not shy at all sitting in the cockpit seat and flying the plane and pressing buttons. It took Zach a little bit to even go into the cockpit. But they had fun! We went to this wonderful restaurant when we landed and met up with Nana, I have forgotten the name but the boys had fun playing on the moose. The 2.5 to 3 hour car ride went well, they both slept! Nana and I were able to visit and catch up and had one tourist detour, the Grand Coulee Dam. Which was so cool because we read about it in all my college books and I was actually able to see it! When we arrived in Brewster we were able to visit with her children and grandchildren, as they were celebrating Nana's great grand children's birthday! It was fun!! The boys were totally spoiled! Nana gave Zach a Lego set and color set and Zayne trucks and colors. We got to our hotel pretty late that first night (for us) and I was able to finally get the kids to bed. We went to Wenatchee, WA to visit a high school friend of mine on Sunday. They played in the water and had cool drinks (root beer float)! Every morning the boys and I would walk along the shoreline and throw rocks into the River, play on the playground that was near our hotel and when the local museum was open would explore the museum (which had a jail cell). One morning during one of our walks we discovered a dead snake, we had to stop and investigate! We made another trip to Wenatchee to visit my Aunt Brenda and her husband Dan and their grandchild. It was fun!! We played in the water and ate hot dogs. Then we played in the pool the rest of the time. As you can see from the photos and videos, Zachery became very brave and very confident in his swimming!! It was such a joy to watch!! The same with Zayne, he was so determined to learn how to swim (but didn't want any help from me, "myself Mommy myself") by the end of our trip he had taught himself how to swim!! I am just so proud of both of them!! On one of our last days, we were able to help Nana gather eggs from the chicken coup, the boys had fun with that!! As most of you know, I love museums and other type of site seeing adventures ... we found the War Memorial Berryman Park. Somehow I got the boys totally excited about it!! When we got there, the Memorial Park was closed off so we weren't able to explore the different machines but they had a GREAT park near by that we were able to play on!! We are already planning our next trip!