Pumpkin Carving

Sunday October 28, 2012

I carved the Space Needle and downtown Seattle buildings in my pumpkin.

 

Stocker Farms Family Pumpkin Park

Saturday October 20, 2012

Today after I gave another SAF Greatest Hits architecture tour downtown, we met up with our small group from church to do a corn maze and pick out pumpkins at a local Stocker Farms pumpkin patch.

The girls in their rain mud boots for the day. 

My man is excited about beating little kids in duck racing. 

Paxton caught a fish. 

Aundra caught a fish. 

Aundra caught a fish again.

Cheyenne excited she caught a fish. 

Girls loving the fish. 

The girls duck racing. 

Stocker Farms husband and wife. I can’t take that man anywhere. 

Small group pre corn maze. 

Corn Maze (photo credits Britton & Sara) 

Corn maze bridge overlook. 

Lost in the muddy corn maze. At least we have coffee and hot chocolate. 

Yeah we survived the corn maze! 

It was a little muddy on the corn maze trail. 

Joe getting ready to take on the boys in the hamster wheel. 

Paxton and his muscle pose. 

Hamster wheel race start. 

Hamster wheel race neck and neck. 

Hamster wheel race Joe handling the turn well. 

Hamster wheel race greedy little man checking in on his competition. 

Hamster wheel race finish. 

Pumpkin patch. 

Pumpkin baby. 

Pumpkin patch. 

I found my pumpkin. 

Sunflowers at the pumpkin patch. 

Museum of Flight

Saturday September 29, 2012

Today we took advantage of the FREE National Museum Day and visited the Museum of Flight in Seattle near Boeing Field. It is the largest private air and space museum.

There is an interactive Space Shuttle Mission exhibit. There were so many wonderfully restored airplanes like the Boeing 80A-1, Douglas DC-3, Gossamer Albatross II human-powered aircraft, an aerocar, and the massively cool Lockheed D-21 unmanned reconnaissance drone.

There is an air traffic control tower to watch the planes taking off and landing at the Boeing Field runways.

The Red Barn wing is a restored barn which was Boeing’s original manufacturing plant. There were some nice exhibits highlighting early wooden aircraft structure.

There is a 2 floor wing dedicated to WWI and WWII aircraft.

The first jet-powered Air Force One resides outside.

The new Space building was still constructing the Full Fuselage Trainer exhibit. It will house a shuttle mockup that all Space Shuttle astronauts used to train. The Super Guppy that flew in the large pieces of the exhibit produced quite a frenzy. It was quite a sight to see flying over our house.

This truly is a man's kind of museum. I guess I’ve drug Joe to enough art museums for him to be the dork soaking it all in. 

10 Year Dating Anniversary

Friday September 28, 2012

Although we don’t do anything to celebrate dating anniversaries anymore, I still think it’s nice to acknowledge the 10 years we’ve been together. That’s over a third of my lifetime and I couldn’t ask for my better partner to spend my days with. I love you Ziplock!