Baptism

Jaxon's baptism was the start of my family's family reunion up in Washington. He was really excited to be able to do it in America with his cousins. It was actually really fun to have it be a family event.

It was an awesome baptism. Jaxon loved being with his cousins and having his special day.

Thus we stared our family reunion. However, I didn't take any pictures of it, so I will need to post that one later!

Washington adventures

After Seattle we headed to Eastern Washington where most of my family lives. We took advantage of the time and introduced the kids to some purely American attractions, starting with Chuck E Cheese.

We hit a couple of the local baseball games

Caught some foul balls

Had some political conversations in the front yard

Celebrated some birthdays. My wonderful niece Madi was even willing to play pin-the-fish-on-the-fishhook for a birthday game;)

We did some major trampoline jumping

Trip to Seattle

Our first stop in the USA was Seattle, where my brother Matt and his family met us to spend a couple of days in the area. We met up at the Woodland Park zoo. I wasn't sure how the kids would hold up, seeing as they only had had about 3 hours of sleep the night before, but seeing their cousins, Ryan, Kylee and Dallin, gave them a huge boost of adrenaline that didn't wear off before we left Seattle. At the zoo the five of them all started running around like crazy people...and then never really stopped. They didn't seem to be particularly interested in the animals, who were clearly much less interesting than their cousins, but we tried to encourage them to take a look anyway 

This was a highlight- Making elephant poo paper

After the zoo we headed down to the Pier

The next day we visited the Seattle Pacific Science Center.

Then the kids took some time to run in the fountain.

Only in America

Evaelle even got in on the action, which she enjoyed until an unruly fountain caught us off guard

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