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halloween

family , kid projects • Nov 2, 2014

Oh, Halloween, thank you for bringing my children such fun, creativity and excitement. We will see you next year, armed again with decorations and ideas (indeed they are already planning next year’s costumes). Thank goodness this craziness only comes once…

here and there

beautiful things , family , kid projects , mama's projects , outdoor adventures , papa • Oct 28, 2014

Again, you wanted to see something gross when you came here to see pretty pictures, right? Welcome to my world! I am sorry to startle you, but my reality is that I am mother to an imaginative, creative,…

fall fest

family , touristing • Oct 22, 2014

We enjoyed a little local fall festival recently where we got to see Matt play jazz and locals play bluegrass, where the kids got free ice cream, face painting, and balloon animals, and where we had all kinds of…

to whidbey

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures , touristing • Oct 18, 2014

Just to see what it was like, we jumped in the car and went to Whidbey Island one day. Riding the ferry over from Port Townsend was pretty neat, both on the way there with the views of…

outdoor adventuring

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures • Oct 14, 2014

We finally climbed to the top of a mountain, and did get the epic view I’ve been wanting… kind of. Through the trees it was there, and for that I am grateful. To get the 360 degree panorama…

seashore

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures , touristing • Oct 7, 2014

Oh, that wonderful, beautiful, magical thing that is the seashore. We found it here, and although it is the Sound and not the Ocean, it will certainly do. I miss living right down the street from the sand and…

shooting from the hip

beautiful things , family , mama's projects , outdoor adventures • Oct 2, 2014

I thought this was pretty darn amazing. While we were camping with my dad and sitting at the table playing a card game, I pulled out my camera. At first I took a few photos, pictured above. The…

dad

beautiful things , family , others , outdoor adventures • Sep 30, 2014

This eclectic assortment of photos tells the super rad story of being with my dad, who drove up from California to visit us for a weekend. We hadn’t seen him in almost two years. We camped, we hammocked, we…

chicken party

family , outdoor adventures , papa • Sep 27, 2014

I knew you wanted to see chickens being butchered on your computer screen today! I didn’t know having a chicken-butchering party was a real thing until we were invited to one by our Navy Band/homeschool friends. They are…

woods and mountains

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures • Sep 24, 2014

So far our mountain hikes here in western Washington are covered in wooded, green, dense forest. Moss, streams, rocks, trees and foliage abound. I love our hikes and the lush forest, yet I crave the mountaintops, and soon I…

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