Matt was out of town a lot, so the kids and I did a lot of adventuring (although we did have some adventures with Matt, too). More beaching with friends on hot days, a hike up Gold Mountain to…
May brought warm days and beach, a soccer game, Matt leading our UU church choir (and lots more fun days enjoying our church), Cedar the chef and Cedar the scientist (making dry-ice ice-cream and dry ice explosions with…
We joined our friends at Ft. Ebey State Park on Whidbey Island for a camping weekend. It was a different kind of camping experience for our family– less primitive that what we normally do (we even went out…
Matt’s mom came back from Montana with us for another week of fun in Washington, so we had some adventures: Beach and walks, woods and more beach, botanic garden, an old military fort, sand dollar collecting and, of…
In April the kids and I took off for a week in Montana. The weather was mostly very warm (as it was in WA), so we got to spend a TON of time outdoors. We discovered a beach we’d…
These snapshots from April include abrupt and unseasonably warm, dry weather here in WA (regular 80+ degree days), so we took advantage of it by heading to beaches with friends. Also included are walks and ferry rides, gardening (both planting…
I’m working on taking a photo a day, even though I seem to be often moving at a fast pace through my ever-growing list of things to handle, in order to document these precious times while we’re in the…
One day we drove to the mountains to play in the snow, and it was so, so beautiful. Then it snowed here! For one glorious day we got to frolic in the snow, sled with cardboard, build a…