Outdoors

Amber on June 24th, 2011

Amazingly the first day of summer here in Washington really was…sunny!!! The kids insisted that they were SO hot – and that they needed to cool down in the pool.  (Even though it was only 65.) An hour later they were freezing and asking for hot chocolate. Then in the afternoon we went to Picnic [...]

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Amber on April 18th, 2011

On Friday Joshua was off work (he is working the same schedule now that he did while we were in Austin – and it is great!) and we all went to the Spring Fair. Jillian saw a commercial for it and saw that Dora would be there.  She was so excited to go and see [...]

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This photo of Wesley was picked by the National Wildlife Federation for an online article on their “Your Big Backyard” website.  It illustrates their “The Nose Knows” article about taking your kids on a “scent hunt”. It wasn’t a contest or anything, they just saw the photo on Flickr and asked if they could use it. [...]

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Joshua on March 23rd, 2011

On Tuesday I took the morning off and chaperoned Wesley’s class on their field trip on a Washington State Ferry from Edmonds to Kingston and back.  Amber was supposed to come, too, but she was sick and so it was just Wesley, Jillian and I.  The class met up at the park at the ferry [...]

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