Over the river and through the woods.....

to Whidbey Island for Thanksgiving!



It was a great trip and visit. We enjoyed our time with Sugar, Pa, and Frankie. We had the most gorgeous weather! (But somehow, I didn't manage to get any pictures of it!)

We saw Santa at his annual arrival to Greenbank farms and both boys had a chance to sit on his lap and make their requests. Although, the both got a little nervous before hand and didn't know what to say! I planted the idea of Lego's with Sam and he readily agreed to ask Santa for those. I really didn't try to prompt Ben very much, as he's had an entire notebook page filled with things he wants for Christmas--- since March! But, the presence of the big guy in red proved to be a bit overwhelming and he didn't know what to ask for. Of course, if you ask him why he didn't know what to ask for it would be that Daddy told him he was not allowed to ask for a PSP as he's too young for one. {Jeff- if you're reading this- thanks a lot!} Once that PSP was out of the running, the poor kid was stumped.

After the island, we went to the Imagine Children's museum in Everett. WOW! That place was great. Tons of stuff for the kids to get their hands on and just have fun with. It was interesting to watch how they approached the situation as well. Ben would go to one area, check it all out, play with whatever was there to play with until he had it figured out, was just done with it, or we talked him into checking something else out. Then, he would look around and find the next thing to do. Meanwhile, Sam tried to devour the whole place as quickly as possible! He ran from one thing to the next whenever some new shiny thing caught his eye. It was as though he thought Ryan and I would say "ok, we're leaving" at any second and he wasn't going to miss one single thing. After a while, he slowed down a bit and realized it would be fun to do things with his brother rather than run circles around him! If you want to see pictures of that fun place, and just a couple others of our Thanksgiving trip, they are up on dropshots.com.