Smithsonian

This past Sunday, we went to the Natural History museum and the Air and Space museum at the Smithsonian. It was so much fun and Ariane loved it! She was such a little trooper, we got there at 10 in the morning and were going through museums and walking around until 5pm and she did great!

Natural History Museum

She was so excited about the dinosaur bones!

Saying "cheese" with daddy and the t-rex

With mommy and the wooly mamoth

Just mommy and baby boy with the penguin, Ariane walked out of the picture-haha

She loved this aquarium

Starting to loose it a little bit, looking at the animals

but after a little lunch, she was good to go again

The hope diamond, it was beautiful!

at the Air and Space museum

walking into an airplane

she was pretty excited about being in the airplane

going down all by herself

with the first plane ever made

Mommy and Ariane with Amelia Earhart's plane

Ariane is 2!!!

At Golden Garden's with Mimi and Papa

Ariane's birthday party!

On the way to Bainbridge Island

The Bloedel Reserve

At Ray's Boathouse for Ari's 2nd birthday

Bus ride and fire station

Ariane and I went to the open house for the brand new fire station in the Hawthorne Hills neighborhood. It was on a Saturday and so we had to take the bus, since Brent works at the community college that day. Ariane was so excited to go on the bus, she said "weeeee" the whole ride there, it was so cute! The fire station was cool, there was so many people there that we didn't stay long. Luckily we got there 10 minutes early and could get a few pictures before everyone started showing up.

On the way there, she is saying "weeeeee" :)

Standing in front of an old fashioned fire struck, she was being super shy and wouldn't let me get too far away, so I couldn't get a great picture.

In the driver's seat of the big fire truck!

On the bus on the way home, she was less animated because it was pouring rain and our bus stop was not covered, so we had to walk/wait in the rain for about 10 minutes :(

This picture is so cute! She loves this little hat, I think someone wants it to be Halloween already;)

What's been going on...

We took a little trip to Phoenix for Brent's Grandma Marceal's birthday. We had a great time. Here is Marceal with her grandson's.

My parent's came to the party as well so they got to play with Ari

Ari and I riding the carousel at Arizona Mills mall, she loved it

Poor little girl was so tired, she just conked out on the couch

My mom, Mimi, with her three granddaughters Katrina, Ariane, and baby Brittan

I was so glad for the opportunity to see Brittan while she was still little. She is so precious!

Back in Seattle, this girl loves her princess dresses

She also is in love with Eric Carle books, she must have been reading "Brown bear, brown bear what do you see", when she fell asleep.

She loves her dress up box!

These are her new rain boots, she loves them and pretty much always has them on:) She is so much fun and such a cutie!

A sweet little girl and her flower

and a big pink chair:)

Ariane in the snow