Books and cookies, movies and hot chocolate (with peppermint schnapps of course), crafts and gifts: We’ve been hard at work Elving over here, and doing our best to hit all the traditions of the season. There has been a…
It snowed here, for what may be the only time this winter. We shall see, I suppose. The kids thought it was pretty darn cool (well, kind of: Ashton dreams of snow all winter but then realizes snow is…
We had a party this year for Thanksgiving, the first “real” party I think I’ve ever thrown. Thirty people plus kids packed into our little space, if I remember correctly, including new friends, old Montana friends, and Band friends. Being…
When the weather doesn’t look like this, which it seems to the majority of the time (and it is growing on me in its quiet beauty), we can often be found galavanting across the trails of some place…
We finally made it to the city! The kids’ grandpa came to town and he got us out of our cozy woods and into a Seattle adventure! We enjoyed the novelty of the ferry, toured the Space Needle, ventured onto…
Did you know that Ashton has what we call a ‘fairy kiss’ on her ear? See it there, that little point on the side? Her cousin has one, and another cousin of Matt’s has one as well. I…
Matt has been on a gymnastic/martial arts kick lately… well, he wants to learn that stuff and wants our kids to learn it, too. So, as we research options for engaging our family in lessons of some sort, he’s…
Our life these days is one of the unexpected, at least in terms of weather. Unlike in Florida, where it was pretty much sunny unless it was rainy, in which case it would be sunny again soon, this…
It’s been beautiful to be in the cool, colorful, crisp season of fall again, after years of missing it while in Florida. Oh, we did miss fall desperately. I have to say, though, that fall has been frustrating for me…
