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…
We’ve been keeping busy lately, and I’ve been enjoying the ease of taking photos with the iPhone. Jones life has been filled with… seeing orcas, rain, snuggles and wrestles, salmon spawning, games and new pants, magic!, Christmas forts, Thanksgiving…
Oh, the excitement we endure enjoy each year as we progress into the Halloween season. Yes, it is a season, starting right around mid-August, when the kids borrow stacks of Halloween books from the library, hunt for costume supplies…
