A Blog About Nothing: Tulip Festival 2012

A couple of weekends ago Pat and I loaded up the kids and drove to Mt. Vernon for the Skagit Valley tulip festival.

We went a couple of years ago when Quinn was a baby and it was breathtakingly beautiful. I remember spending a lot of time in traffic and thinking "there's no way this traffic can possibly be worth it" but when we arrived, it totally was. That's how I remember feeling, anyway.

This year was a different story. It was still breathtakingly beautiful, but it literally took 90 minutes to travel 3 miles, each way. That's three hours of unnecessary car time. I strive to be an optimistic person, but I definitely fell short on this day.

However, when we finally arrived we did our best to make the trip worth it. We ate a little picnic lunch while Quinn ran and played and Kira crawled around. Quinn didn't understand that it wasn't appropriate to pick the tulips, so we spent a fair amount of time discouraging him from doing so.

Pat was incredibly patient with my grumpy self (thanks honey), and we were able to get photos of the kids in this beautiful setting. Because let's be honest, that's the primary reason for going to this type of event. I hope you enjoy!

I love how Quinn has his arm around Kira here. He can be so nurturing.

Like how I cropped out his hands so you can't tell he's trying to pick one of these?

Her two favorite things, daddy and standing!

If I knew how to use photoshop I'd totally fix those scrapes on her face, but I can appreciate the memory of these blemishes. Someone needs to cut her fingernails more often...