There are endless places to visit in the state of Washington involving lakes and mountains. The state really has a perfect combination of water and mountains. All summer we saw that friends were visiting awesome getaways only a few hours east of Seattle. Two of […]

August is halfway over and its crazy to think the kids will be back to school in a few short weeks! This was our first summer spent in Seattle, so we had lots of “new” experiences to be had. Our (practically brand new) house didn’t […]

This past weekend we took a last minute road trip to escape our non-air-conditioned house. We spent one of the days exploring some of the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington. It is just under a 3.5 hour drive from Seattle and the weather was a world […]

 Hiking in Mount Rainier National Park with Kids When we first visited Seattle my jaw completely dropped at my first sighting of Mount Rainier. I couldn’t believe that this giant mountain, or volcano for that matter, could even exist. And you could see it from […]

Visiting Snoqualmie Falls with Kids We’ve been living in Seattle for roughly 3 months now and it’s finally summertime. Everyone keeps telling us that the weather here gets worse before the summer officially starts. On this particular day in New York, the temperatures nearly reached […]

To be honest when we knew we were going to be visiting Seattle I knew next to NOTHING about the city. The only thing  I associated it with was coffee and a space needle. My husband had been traveling out there for work often and […]

Seattle CityPASS Review On our first visit to Seattle, we bought a Seattle CityPASS in order to visit a bunch of our “must-see” Seattle attractions. Being that we had never visited the city before, we wanted to be sure we saw all the best things […]