death cab - - - tulips

last wednesday night tyler and i had a great date night ~ out for a late dinner, a drink then sat 11 rows back at the death cab concert at the mt. baker theater. they put on a great show and it was fun to be kid-free and pretend to be young again. okay, we aren't even 30, so we are still very young. but being a parent really takes its toll! i had to sit down a few times throughout the concert as my feet were sore from working out and a long day of mothering. and every time i sat down, i would nod off. in a rock concert, ha!

the next morning riley and i loaded up in the car with lynzi and paetyn and drove south to the annual tulip festival in mt. vernon. we had great weather, so enjoyed taking our time walking through the tulips and even had a picnic lunch out in the field. riley and paetyn are quite the pair together - they are a good match as far as personality goes and they seem to really know who e/o is. riley calls paetyn "P", which is so cute to hear. we had a hard time getting either of them to look or smile at the camera as they just wanted to touch the flowers and were distracted by the tractor, the airplanes overhead and basically anything else other than us. gotta love toddlers.

does this picture make anyone else laugh? or is it just me and tyler? not sure exactly what she's doing, posing for the camera, i guess. it's so fun to catch the different expressions of riley. she is full of them! and in the very last picture riley is waving goodbye to the tractor.


thats all for now. in the next few days i'll put up the pictures from angela's birthday. enjoy this last week of april!