July began with a wild Bremerton Fourth of July, Matt’s Navy Rock Band performances, a family hike or two, and then a trip to Montana for Matt’s leave. We went to our favorite camping and hiking spot, way…
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…
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…
This is kind of a sad story… but an interesting one nonetheless. We didn’t realize, when we bought our house, the damage the huge redwood tree we now owned was doing to our property, as well as our neighbors’ properties. We didn’t consider,…
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…
