Edmonds-PNW Trip Day 3

Sunday morning the kids were all up bright and early after sleeping out in the living room in sleeping bags.  They played with their new toys and ate Grandma's yummy coffee cake for breakfast.  Grandma got some good snuggle/reading time in with Beckett while I showered. And Grandpa showed the boys a couple of his puzzles. 

 Once we were all up and dressed Grandpa took us to the beach.  It was about a 10 minute walk.  Talia insisted on holding Grandpa's hand the whole time.  It was so cute.  And we saw a real live working phone booth!  The boys had no idea what it was.

 Edmonds is beautiful.  There are flowers growing everywhere, and you can see the Puget Sound and the peninsula across the water.  We enjoyed puttering around the beach in the sun.  The tide was low, so there were lots of tide pool creatures to see.  Talia, of course, was not a fan of walking around on the sand, but the boys had a blast.  They saw this giant sea star and Weston found a dead crab that he thought was super cool.  Also, we were right by the Kingston ferry and we kept pointing at it when it was docked. Talia was confused and kept saying she liked the tooth fairy (meaning the ferry) but that it was too loud.  :)

When we were done at the beach we walked back to Grandma and Grandpa's condo building and Grandpa showed us his "sanctuary."  His workshop was so cool.  He makes these awesome little cigar box ukuleles.  He played a couple of them for us and then gave our family one.  He also gave all the kids sand dollars from his collection.  Weston got a set of juggling balls too.  Grandpa has a pin up poster of Grandma Squire's sister who was a model during World War 2 hanging in his man cave as well.  So much character in that little garage.

 Talia was pretty worn out from the first few days of the trip and our morning beach outing.  She conked out on the couch while watching a movie.  Sunday afternoon Grandma hosted a big family dinner.  We had let all of Ian's aunts and uncles and cousins know we were going to be in town that weekend and that we would love to see anyone who was around.  We were so happy that everyone was able to come!  It was so much fun catching up with cousins we hadn't seen in 10 years.  Lots of Ian's cousins are married and having kids now, so there were new babies to meet and little cousins for my kids to play with.  Talia stayed asleep while everyone arrived.  She was kind of shocked when she woke up to a noisy house full of people she had never met.  She adjusted pretty well though and had fun playing with the other kids.  Grandma made us a feast.  She made cannolli and Mexican chicken.  We had fruit and salad and mint mud pie for dessert. All Grandma classics. I made sure I got her recipes before we left. We loved getting to visit with so much family!

 We were all tired that night, but because Talia took a solid nap she took awhile to settle down and go to sleep.  When all of the kids were finally snoozing Ian and I snuck out for an evening walk on the beach.  We caught the tail end of the sunset.  It was quiet and peaceful.  We really enjoyed strolling around and talking.  We are both so glad we got to spend some time in Edmonds on this trip.