We are flying back from vacation tonight. For the past week and a half we’ve been on the go. San Fran for our anniversary. Camping in eastern Washington with friends. Baby shower and family time in Seattle. Now we are headed back to the desert to hunker down for baby’s arrival… AKA set up and organize all the things and take all the classes. We left on our trip with a hot mess of a new house and now we have just a few weeks to get everything in place before this baby arrives. But it will get done. Right?
The time away was refreshing though, and it was kind of nice to forget about home organization and nursery set up for the past ten days. And as much as I usually love the heat, my prego body was pretty excited for a few sweat-free days. I never thought I would appreciate 62 degrees and cloudy, but for the past week I’ve been loving it.
I have such mixed feelings every time we come home to Seattle. It’s a beautiful city. So beautiful. Especially when it’s sunny. But most of the time it’s not sunny. And the economy and the traffic and the politics are horrible. In some ways Micah and I hope to never live in Washington again… but then there’s the people.
Oh, the people. We love them.
We have such rich and beautiful relationships here and sometimes it feels like we could tolerate a thousand days of rain to be close to the amazing community God has given us in this city.
For example, Micah and I were worried about getting over to our yearly camping trip in eastern Washington. Usually we are able to borrow a car from my parents, but they recently moved one of their vehicles down to Arizona, so there wasn’t one to borrow up north. We really didn’t want to rent a car to go camping, so we weren’t sure what we were going to do. Within a day or two of mentioning our concern about transportation, we had three different friends here offer their cars to get us over the mountain pass for a four day camping trip. Micah’s cousin from Spokane even offered to drive all the way across the state to pick us up in Seattle and then drive halfway back to our camping spot. These people. They are amazing.
Here are some glimpses of our time in the Pacific Northwest…
Best friends since 4th grade.
Camping. Gorgeous weather. Boating by day. S’mores and the game Werewolf by night. Laughter all the time.
And this pregnant body survived with the help of an air mattress.
Amazing baby shower gifts = extreme thankfulness for free luggage on Southwest
Cousins, brothers, sisters. My sis and I are both Seattleites-turned-southerners. This means we warm ourselves by car radiators when it’s too cold in the hometown.
Micah took a kite-boarding lesson. I love that he’s always up to some new adventure.
Lunch date. Coffee date. Lake-walking with a new baby. Fro-yo. Such good friends.
Gas Works Park on a sunny Sunday. And Seattle is weird, in case you didn’t know.
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really nice pics, Thanks for share..
What a great trip 🙂 I am so looking forward to going home at Christmas and introducing Maggie to old friends!
How fun! That is great the you were able to to take a fun trip before your little one comes. Yay!
I totally feel you about Seattle. Totally weird and not God-fearing in their politics, but the people here are pretty darn awesome. Guess I'll be where God wants me to be in this season and I will enjoy my view of real mountains! 🙂
I only have to say one thing– how is the economy bad? The economy is the one thing that makes traffic here sooo terrible. Honestly, I gripe against Amazon for hiring their thousands upon thousands of minions each day.
Also, I can handle you dissing my fair city because you grew up there. 🙂 but usually I am staunchly proud of my city and the deep faith of the people there. 🙂