Saturday

But first to backtrack a little bit.
On Thursday morning I woke up at 6am to about 10 texts from my kids, and friends, saying there was a bomb threat at the high school (and 2 courthouses) and they were all on lockdown. i believe christian's exact text said "i'll see you in the end, mother."
they didn't end up finding anything, but mama was worried none the less. crazy, crazy!
they kept telling me to turn on the news, but i was across the nation and it wasn't on national news, so they finally sent this picture.

my sisters and i woke up early most days in seattle. alli and i are on eastern time, so even though we were staying up till 3 or 4 am our time, we still found ourselves waking up between 6-8 am. and amy is so pregnant that she's not sleeping well, so she was up early on account of that big baby belly. fun stuff, right? early saturday  morning we opened the door to delaney's and uncle frey's room and walked over to get some top pot donuts.

the apartment from mike and cami couldn't have been more perfect. we had two bedrooms and baths, a full kitchen, and a nice little living area for us to congregate. and it was in the renton landing which is super close to tons of shopping, restaurants, and movies. it was such a blessing to have!
i love sister time. :)

we had planned to take bonnie to get her toes and nails done and saturday was the big day. it was really nice to have some relaxing girl time with the sistahs. i sat right in the middle, like i do. :)

sistah selfie. too bad we didn't have dad's selfie stick yet, so our faces are all huge and it's a really bad picture. they are memories, so that's what matters.

delaney hung out with the boys while we were getting pampered. she was engrossed with alli's ipad when we snuck out, but i worried about what would happen when she realized we were gone. turns out she was totally fine! she was such a good girl! they took her down to tom's house and on the way gave her a huge bag of popcorn, which she promptly spilled, and then they were surprised. they were like "she had such a good grip on the ipad, we figured she could hold some popcorn." silly boys.

that night we put the last of my christmas cards in the mail. and when dad was getting back in we played the always fun "pull forward while someone is trying to get in the car" game. it's nice to be able to joke with dad. :)

bonnie's sister, hope, had found this really cool organization called the tears foundation. they have a memorial at a cemetery in seatac called the angel of hope memorial where they engrave names of babies who have passed away. hope arranged for them to put harvey's name on their monument, so we all wanted to see it. it was a dark, cold, rainy night, but we, in a three car train, drove all through the bonney watson cemetery searching, and finally, after we'd circled the whole thing, found it. i'm glad his name will be engraved there, it looks like a really cool foundation. they also do walks, so we are looking at signing up for one, but our closest would be new jersey, so hopefully we can find time. at the walks they show pictures of the babies and you can also do personalized shirts. i think it would be really neat to do.

after the cemetery we went for our families dinner to claim jumper. i'd been trying to convince everyone to go there since we arrived in seattle, so i was glad to finally go. i <3 :="" br="" claim="" jumper.="">

friends at last.

 

we had a nice family dinner, and then on to home for more sib talking time. :)