Phil and I went up to Seattle last Wednesday for the Joshua Radin concert. It was fantastic and we had such a great time walking around the city and then running in the rain back to the car after the concert. Phil made a comment in the elevator at Pike Place Market about how you know your city folk when you miss the smell of public urination in an elevator.
The opening acts were Laura Jensen and Cary Brothers. They were both fantastic. We loved it and when you are standing around listening to music it has to be good to make you forget you have been standing for hours. Joshua Radin was great and his new cd should be good when it comes out. He got down in the crowd for a song and both Phil and I were surprised at how short he was...no really way shorter than I am. Going to these concerts always make me happy to live in a place that so many great musicians come to play at. I always love a good date night with Phil.
On Monday we heading back up the mountain, but the sun was not out and it was snowing. The kids only lasted a couple of hours, but we got some fun family pictures. Just before we left the Phillips' in peace we lined up the kids and took some hats from the mantel and took these cute pictures. They ended up getting snow at the cabin just as we left that day and enjoyed sledding out the front door. It was a great trip and Miya even wrote a report about it for school as "her best vacation ever".
Rachel and Nate were getting their kitchen remodeled so they rented a cabin (really more like a lodge) in Squim and invited us to come along. We had sunshine the first day we headed up to Hurricane Ridge and they kids loved it. I found these plastic snowboards at Target for $6.00 and Cannon and Carson loved them. They were really good right from the start and the hill was pretty steep. Lyla loved sledding and eating a picnic in the snow. Miya was all over the place and loved sledding, building tunnels, jumping in the snow and the sunshine on her skin. I even got a little sunburn on my cheeks that day. It made me miss winters in Idaho and the bright sunshine off the snow. 
We had a great weekend in Texas with my parents. Ashlee and I left the crazy February snow storm in Seattle to head down and to Houston where is was in the upper 60s low 70s. All of our husbands watched the kids for the weekend and let us go to hang out. Miya was super excited that I would be singing in church in Texas. My mom and dad were speaking in their Ward down there and my mom volunteered us girls for a musical number. Stephanie informed us that we would not be crying during the song so we tried to get it all out during the practice. It was a song that we have sung a ton of times as young girls in church so it was fun. 
