Yakima Trip '11

The day after we returned from the Nielsen Reunion, boys and I headed down to Yakima for a mini-vacation to spend time with my family. We were down there for three days. The second we entered my grandparents house, the spoiling began for Clifford and Kristjan. Days were filled with toy shopping, happy meals, baseball games, skating, seeing "The Smurfs", eating out, car rides in Grandma Jane's car with the top down, and lots of quality time spent with Grandma Jane, Great Grandpa and (Great) Grandpa. We had a lot of fun!

They each were given $10 to spend on anything they wanted.


Kristjan and Clifford with their new school backpacks Grandma Jane bought them.

Since Jane is the only co-worker who typically sticks around town during the week off from work (everyone gets the same week off and the business closes for that week), she's responsible to go feed the dog they keep at work. Clifford and Kristjan went every evening with her to help feed the dog. I went with them one time, and I'm so glad their was a fence between us and the dog-he's huge!!



When visiting Yakima, Clifford and Kristjan always look forward to going roller skating at Skateland. It usually takes them a few minutes to warm up, then they're off skating like pros (well...as best as a 5 and 6 year old can do haha). And within minutes, they're sweating like pigs. Check out the pics with their hair sticking up-that's all sweat holding that hair up!











Wednesday night we went with Grandpa and Grandma Jane to a Yakima Bear's Game. Grandma Jane bought each boy their own bag of cotton candy, and they chowed down on some corn dogs. The boys and I made it up on the big screen when the camera guy came around. And the boys came close to catching a fly ball. Clifford was extremely disappointed that he came home empty handed without a ball.









Eating out for breakfast before saying our goodbyes and heading home