Botanical Gardens Walk

Can you believe it? It was 60 degrees and sunny today! It's been a mild winter so far, but today really felt like a beautiful SoCal kind of winter day. We took advantage by going on a "hike" with the girls through the Bellevue Botanical Gardens. It's a pretty small garden, perfect for kids. Here's some of the highlights:

Checking out what's in the laterns in the Yao Chinese Garden.

Resting on one of the gazillion benches along the walking path.

Suspension bridge! Truth be told, this was the whole reason for our trip there today.

What's up there in the sky? Just some more ferns and moss growing on the trees.

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Happy new year!!

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black and blue

Poor little Nora! This little munchkin was running after her sister when we were out on a walk yesterday and tripped. She banged her face up pretty good, but thankfully it wasn't worse. A big ole egg! she didn't like me trying to clean those scratches breakfast thus morning! Lots of jam on her face to match her war wounds!

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