Seattle - Crabbing Trip (Part 1)

This year the Young Men in our ward planned a crabbing trip to the Washington coast. Ian & Nathaniel were both pretty excited since neither had ever been crabbing and as a matter of fact Nathaniel had never seen the ocean!

The drive itself was not without it's own adventures. Jonathan & the boys were suppose to go by themselves since it was a BSA activity. Kya was begining to get sick before they left and Jonathan was already stressing about it, so his overprotective side kicked in and he pretty much refused to go unless Kya & I also came with. Poor Kya had to take an 8 hour drive in the truck feeling pretty yucky! We had not even made it 1/2 way and we discovered that the nebulizer kit we grabbed off her supply shelf was missing parts! So we had to stop in Moses Lake, WA and have Lincare rescue us! THANK YOU LINCARE! Probably should have been a hint to go home but we made sure the boys got to camp anyways!

The Pearson Boys - Tommy (age 6) & Michael (age 2)

My little Boy Scout! Ok so he's not little anymore... but he is a boy scout! Ian loves camping and now that he has a big brother he is willing to sleep in his own tent instead of with Mom & Dad. YEAH!

This is Jonathan hanging out with our good friend Colleen Pearson (she's formerly a Bellante from Antioch stake) and this is one of the pups from our litters -"Hunter"

The crabbing was pretty slow so the boys ended up doing a LOT of clam & Oyster digging. I swear Nathaniel dug up over 50 pounds of clams & probably ate 1/2 of them! Kami & Dan live just an hour from here so they came out with Eli for the night to camp with us. I unfortunatley did not get to enjoy this portion of our visit since Kya was admitted to Seattle Childrens Hospital for a pnemonia that night! (yeah no surprise there!) Jonathan, the kids & the Shaws all spent the morning clam digging & eating the fresh blackberry's growing everywhere!

Thus ended our Crabbing trip & began our additional week long Seattle trip!

Seattle Trip -August 2009 (Part 2)

Dispite the fact that we ended up spending a LOT more time in Seattle than originally planned AND not having financially prepared to do so, we made the most of it. I was sad to miss most of the camping on the coast but got to do more of it in the city! Seattle Childrens Hospital has several hook-ups for campers in one of there parking lots, so we were able to park the trailer and enjoy our time at the hospital in a more comfortable setting.


Most people think that I only have 1 disabled child... I would beg to differ!

Nathaniel helping me clean-out the fridge in the parking lot campsite! Now I have proof that he knows how to work!

We spent a beautiful afternoon in downtown Seattle and Pikes Market. I love visiting the open air markets & sampling all the different ethnic foods. Just behind the boys in this photo is a cheese shop, so we went in and tried like 10-12 cheeses, AWSOME!

This picture is from the infamous "Wall of Gum" at Pikes Market. It took us a little while to find the entrance to the alley but in the end just the grossness of the experience was worth it! All those little dots are millions of peoples wads of gum! The boys found this to be quite entertaining. (Don't worry we used lots of hand sanitizer!)

This one is Ian's of course!

This one is MINE! I am very proud... can you tell!

While we were at Pikes Market we all got to try Turkish Delight for the first time (really good)and of course we had to have Fish & Chips. Those fries where super good! Jonathan is hiding fromt he camera :(

Although the circumstances were not what we would hope for we did enjoy our time in Seattle. The highlight of the visit was getting to spend a couple of extra hours with Kami & Dan and ELI of course! That little munchkin is getting so big so fast I wish we could see them every month! We spent the afternoon picking more wild blackberry's to bring home and make jam and afterwards we had our first taste of a "5 guys" - burgers & fries. Dan is the man -YUM!