Memorial Day weekend 2018

Sean's sister Dawn really wanted us to come up and visit and see her new house in Marysville.  We knew the drive was quite long and we needed at least a 3 day weekend so we decided to drive up on Memorial day weekend.  We ended up leaving a bit later on Saturday of Memorial day weekend than we had wanted to as Sean and Brandon had to get haircuts before we left and I was able to sneak in a good workout.  We left around 11:00 AM and then stopped in Centrailia to have lunch at an Irish pub.  We ended up getting to Dawn's house at about 4:00 PM.  We had hoped the kids would nap in the car but they didn't unfortunately.  We got to Dawn's house and her kids were napping.  Olivia tried to nap with them but she couldn't fall asleep.  Brandon and Kevin ran off and immediately began playing.  Dawn, Sean, and I went to a nearby growlerie and got a few growlers of beer.  Then we headed back to Dawn's house where she had a small party with family and friends.  Olivia and Bianca got to have a sleep over in Bianca's room that night in bunkbeds and had a blast.  Brandon and Kevin had a sleepover in futons in the living room.

The next day we woke up to nice, sunny weather.  We had breakfast and then headed to Seattle to go to Safeco Field and a Mariner's game.  It was so fun taking the kids to their first Mariners game.  We got there a bit late and bought a bunch of snacks (candy and popcorn) for the kids prior to the game with the outside vendors.  The kids had a blast watching the game.  It was fun watching Brandon actually understand the baseball game.  It was an awesome game and the Mariners rallied late in the game to win by 2 runs in the 9th inning.  The kids had fun in the kids play area as well.

Olivia and Dawn watching the iPad together in the morning

Olivia and Bianca walking to the game

Olivia and Bianca on their way to the game

Getting hot dogs at the game

Olivia and Sean with their hot dogs

The cousins outside of the stadium

First game at Safeco Field for the kiddos

Brandon and Kevin at the game

Brandon and I selfie at the game 

Me, Bianca, and Olivia at the game

Such a good game!

Mariners rally in the late innings

Uno attack fun!

Sean and Bianca and Olivia almost too heavy to carry now

After the game, we headed back to Dawn's house and had a fun evening of eating pizza and hanging out by Dawn's fire pit and playing games. The kids got to have another fun sleepover.  The next day we got up and had breakfast and then headed home at about 12:00 PM.  We stopped by my Uncle's house on the way home to get a beer making machine he had for us.  Then we began the long drive home.  We stopped for a late lunch/early dinner just outside of DuPont and had Pho.  We made it home by 6:00 PM luckily with minimal traffic.  It was a fun but exhausting weekend.  A lot of driving but worth it to see the cousins having fun together.