What a Day, Jonah turns 7!!

O.K., so there are a lot of pictures for just one day. Jonah's seventh birthday was Saturday. It started out with him wanting to go out with just mom and dad, so we went to Monica's bakery in Old Town Silverdale. He wanted attention from mom and dad. We had planned him a special day with the family and it was a surprise, which killed Jonah. He likes to know what is coming at all times. It was a good start to the morning.






Nothing like good coffee and a danish to start the day. We then picked up the rest of the clan; Marna, pappa, Jacob, and Noah and we took the ferry to Seattle. To set the stage, the weather was beautiful, a nice 85-90 degrees today.









The ferry, although expensive now, is always worth it because the kids love it.

Half way through the ferry ride, the announced that there were dolphins out in front of the boat, so everyone ran up there, almost tipping the ship over. It was all for nothing though, because we probably scared them away with all of the cameras. But, a good photo opp none the less.

We first headed to a Gasworks park that overlooks Lake Union. It was beautiful. It is a great park for flying kites, so we had brought all of the kites for the kids. We also brought lunch and let Jonah open some of his gifts for the day, which included a bocci call set. We flew kites and played bocci ball.

Here is the view from the kite flying hill overlooking lake Union. There were also float planes taking off and landing, which stopped the kids dead in their tracks. We have never brought the kids to this park. We were very impressed.

Here is Noah trying his kite flying abilities. All of the kids had such a good time flying those kites there. I know that I also had a good time. I could have stayed there for the rest of the day.

Jacob was also content trying to find four leaf clovers in the grass. He probably would have stayed there all day if I hadn't pulled him back to the car.

Packing up from Gasworks park is always a tough job, but Jacob was a big help with all of the sports equipment. He is a pack horse. He thought that was funny.

Right around the corner from the park, Rebecca had found a new organic ice cream shop that had just opened the week before. It served homemade ice cream. There were a lot of interesting combinations there. It was very good and a nice stop over before we headed to the Ballard Locks.

When we got to the locks, the kids hadn't remembered that we had been there before. We brought them when they were really little. I took a picture of this because you could see fish flying out of the tube. Otherwise, it just looks like a weird shot of something.

Just a picture of all the boats waiting to go through the locks. We had a great time looking at all the boats, but boy was it hot by this time of the day.

I had to pick up one of the stragglers who was hot, tired, and need of a drink.

We did find some shade and all got something to drink.

After the licks, we headed to the Spaghetti Factory for Jonah's birthday dinner. We were ready to get out of the sun and have something to eat. Jonah thought that the day was over until we gave him a Mariners shirt and a card telling him that we were all going to a game that night. He was so surprised and excited, along with all of the boys.

Here is Jonah holding up his shirt in excitement.

The boys at the Mariner's Game. It was still even hot there at 7:00 that night. We were looking for a break, but we had the seats directly in the sun.

The whole gang!

Noah after cotton candy--like he needed anymore sugar. It was Noah's first Mariner's Game.

A picture from the nose bleed section--our seats. they were great though. Noah couldn't believe how high up we were. He thought the wind was going to blow him away.

This was around 7:30. The weather report had said that it was going to be around 80 degrees today..they were wrong. It got up around 90.

All of you who know Jacob know that when he gets something in his head, he wants to complete it. He said he wanted to start the wave so he talked to people in the row in front of us and behind us and actually started the wave which ended up going all around the stadium. We were laughing so hard, because he truly did start this thing. Great things are going to become of this little boy.

A picture of Jacob looking at the rest of the stadium completing the wave. He was so excited and looked at me and said, "I told you I was going to do it."

The Mariner's won, which was a big deal since they aren't doing very good so far this season. Jonah had a complete blast at the game. He was screaming and giving high five's to anyone who would give him the time of day. It was one of best days we have had as a family in a long time. We got home around 11:00 and all fell into bed.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONAH. UNTIL NEXT YEAR.