The week before school started for Steve, we were lucky to be able to visit his sister and her family in Washington.  They needed some electrical work done in their house and Steve and I both needed some dental work (her husband, Kevin, is a dentist).  We were there for basically four days and had a lot of fun.  We all flew there and it was so exciting for Brinton and Zander to go on a plane.
Conley did pretty good and only cried a couple times total through our three (we had a connector) flights.  Brinton got the window seat, but he and Zander would switch.  I guess I was surprised that Zander was so excited and liked to look out the window.  I sort of thought he would be clueless, but he really knew what was going on.  My most favorite part of the flight was during the first plane we were on.  Just as we were on the runway speeding up, getting ready to take off, Zander was so funny.  He had both of his arms extended out in front of him and he was saying "Buzz Lightyear."  You know in Toy Story 2 at the beginning when Buzz is flying through space?  My kids like to reenact that when they are playing.  I was laughing so hard that Zander thought that one up on his own.  So funny!  We were really close to Seattle, but didn't really make it out to do touristy things.  We weren't really sad about that because it was nice just to be with Trish and Kevin and all the kids had a blast playing together.  One evening, we went to a park that has a little lake the kids can get in. 
Can I just say that their parks are way cooler than ours here?  The trees there are so huge and the landscaping is just naturally so beautiful and green.  It was really nice to have shade at the park and the kids had a lot of fun playing in the water.  McKenzie, Hailey, Brinton and Zander all shared a room while we were there.  The girls have a bunk bed with a trundle under.  Surprisingly, they did really great and chose to share beds rather than have one of our boys sleep downstairs with us.  Brinton and McKenzie would share, or Zander and Hailey would share.  It was really cute.  I didn't really get very many pictures because we were just hanging out and playing the whole time.  If I get some that Trish took, I'll add them later.  I loved Sophie, too.  She is so cute and actually just turned one a couple days ago.  We had so much fun and it was so nice for the cousins to spend time together.