My sisters and I just spent a week in Washington helping my parents get their home ready to sell.  It was hard work emotionally and physically, but I have to say we did an amazing job.  The house looks great!  And, I think we might just have set the world record for number of trips to Lowes/Home Depot in one week.  I know my family wanted to kill me when I wouldn’t stop working but I tend to go a little crazy when there is a project to be done and a deadline to be met.  And the fact that we had more than one menstruating female in the house at one time also made things a little dicey.  Miraculously we survived and I still  love being with my family.  We always laugh so hard we cry. 

On our way to WA we drove through Mt. Rainier National Park.  I’ve been going there since I was a little girl and it was good to see it again.  It’s one of my favorite places on earth.

Love this one!

We lucked out and got to see the Lakefair fireworks show while we were there.  Possibly for the last time. 

This is my favorite fireworks show, hands down.  The fireworks shooting out over the capital building and echoing throughout the dome makes it one of a kind.  

The Breakfast of Champions
One other highlight of the trip, pathetic though it may be, was eating ice cream for breakfast.  My children were not around so I did not have to be a good example.  We had to find some way to make it through the week, right?

No trip home from WA would be complete without a stop at Multnomah Falls.  Love this place.  I love the whole drive down the Columbia Gorge and will miss it.

All in all it was a very productive trip.  Mom and Dad’s house looks so fabulous there will be a bidding war for sure, Sarin got her first kiss, and Allison learned how to get other people to do her heavy lifting thanks to Craigslist.  Oh! and the crazy man who drove all the way from Vancouver up to Lacey to get my parents free armoire made his wife very happy.  His parting words to us as he drove away with the huge armoire hanging out of his little tiny truck were, “Happy Wife, Happy Life!”  And Mom and Dad, you’ll be glad to know we did not see the armoire laying by the side of the road in pieces.