Take me to the Zoo!

So this weekend we all went to Seattle to visit with Jacob's sister, brother in law and our 2 nieces Genevieve and Aubrielle. They came up from San Antonio for a visit. It was lots of fun. On our way over we stopped in North Bend to check out the outlet malls. I'm due next month and needed a couple things for when that happens. Emma had lots of fun running all over the sidewalks and sitting in the coin operated machines. Jacob got some new power tools (his anniversary present) which made him happy.

Then we stopped by the Seattle Temple and let Emma out while I ran in to the distribution center to buy some things. Then it was on to Shoreline where we checked into our hotel and relaxed for a while before heading over to Jacob's parents house.

When we got to his parents we all got ready and went swimming at the community pool. Jacob, Emma, Rachel, Jared, Genevieve, Michael and Jessica all swam while I sat and watched everyones stuff. I don't have a swim suit that fits :( . Emma has only been in the water to swim 4 times and she was having so much fun!

There was a slide the kids could go down so Emma and Genevieve took turns sliding down it into the water. Emma took a little coaxing but soon realized that it was a lot of fun. They swam for about and hour and a half and then we headed back to Jacobs parents house. Jacobs best friend Oscar just happened to be at the house when we got back. We had lost Jacob's phone and I didn't have his number so we were elated to see him!
The next morning we went to the Woodland Park Zoo! The last time Emma went to the zoo was when she was 9 months old with my friend Ashley and her son Christian who is a week younger then Emma. Emma was running all over the zoo! She didn't want to ride in the stroller. We were there for 4 hours and she was high energy the whole time. It was cute to watch her.









I decided that pregnant ladies aren't meant to run all over the zoo trying to keep up with a bunch of in shape people! I was so sore by the end! I could barely walk.

Then Rachel and Jared took us all out to Buca di Beppo by South Lake Union. FANTASTIC FOOD! I highly recommend it! It's a family style Italian Restaurant and the food was AMAZING! It was Genevieve's 3rd birthday and we had fun celebrating with her.

Then it was back home for us. It was a fun weekend! I'll post a new recipe some time this week. I've been slacking really bad!!!!