Eily and Cavy do America...

It's been a big month for the kiddo's. They've been putting in lots of miles travelling all over the place. It started with a big adventure when they left Daddy and went with Grandma and Grandpa back to Michigan. They had a great time, playing in the water (sprinkler, hose, pool and water table) and running around like crazy kids. I'm so happy that they got to get home and see all those that love them and don't get to see them often enough. Especially considering it looks like we won't be making it home for Christmas this year, like the last couple of years.

When they finally came home, we went on another adventure. This time to explore the state that we live in. We went out to the Pacific Shore and spent four days checking out the beaches and Olympic National Park.

I'm still busy collecting a whole summer worth of pictures, below here are only the pictures of our trip to the ocean. I will try and get more of the other summer pictures up, but as usual I make no guarentees. LOL

This is how our trip started...they do love each other.




Eily getting her first good look at the ocean




Hiking the trials in the Hoh Rainforest (Olympic national park...one of two temperate rainforests in the world). Eilish thought she was Dora I think...she charged ahead and did everything herself...until she was so hot and tired that she couldn't anymore. It was hilarious.


















Some very cool scenery available on the Western Washington Coast...some pictures from lookouts over some beaches...






Sunset over the Pacific...


No trip to the beach is complete without letting the kids play in the sand...










...or walking into the ocean!




And you just have to love this picture as Dad carries them off to their next toe dipping spot!!!


Anyway...that's all for now...I will try to get more summer pictures up, but they may end up getting pre-empted by pictures of Eily starting her dance class, Halloween, Cav's second birthday (yes, it's barely two months away) and all the other crazyness that goes on post summer.

Eily and the Unit go to the Zoo...

Howdy all...for those of you who are confused by the title of this post, allow me to explain. Cav's middle name is Gabriel...being the former Detroiter that I am I naturally started calling him G-Unit. In the course of the last 19 months (yes...he's 19 months old...talk about freaky!!!) that has devolved into me just calling him Unit...or the Unit...thus the blog title. Hilarious part...he responds to Unit as well as to his own name...sometimes better!!!

Anyway in another fit of playgroup fun, the kids went to the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle today. They had a blast...spent all morning and most of the afternoon there and they only saw maybe 1/2 of the zoo...gotta love it.

Pictures below...enjoy!

In the garden












Gotta love drums...




Wandering the Zoo












Anyway...they had a great time. More posts as the adventure continues...

On a early summery day

The weather here has been so nice for the last few weeks or so that Eily and Cavy's playgroup went out for a more summer like trip this week. We live in a little town right on the coast of Puget Sound, and one of the state car ferries runs out of here. These ferries also have walk-on access, so our intrepid playgroup decided to go down and park their cars...walk onto the ferry and ride it across to Whidbey Island. They rode across and they played on the beach, where Cav proceeded to fill up a bucket of sand and dump it over his head. Crazy kid...couldn't eat it like a normal 18 month old, could he?!?

Anyway, pictures below.

On the ferry












Playing on the Beach (Cav's first trip to the beach!!!)










Back at home, Eily decides she's finally had enough of Cavan!








But Cav can't be contained...especially when he's thirsty!!!