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Shane and I try to bring our children to the temple when the weather is nice in Seattle so that they can be there, enjoy the grounds and feel how special a place it is to us.  This past Friday was beautiful and so we headed down as a family to spend some time there. 

On June 22-26th, we took our newly Scuba Certified Venturing Crew #206 up to the San Juan Islands for a week of exploring, boating, camping and Scuba Diving. Two days before we left for the week our dishwasher died and the week or so before that, our computer blew up.  So, in the three days

For a long time I have wanted to obtain portraits or pictures of Christ to give to each child to have as their own.  My taste leans rather towards the old masters and I found a surprising lack of pictures available to buy at the church stores that I thought were pretty much staples.  The

Despite rotten weather and sick kids we managed to enjoy our 4th of July with a yummy dinner and front row seats out our window of the fireworks in the cul-de-sac.  The kids were rather excited and handled the fireworks better from the safety of their home.  Peter requested to go to bed and once

This Father’s Day the kids had a fun gift to give Shane.  A month previously the Primary had an activity where the kids decorated old ties for their fathers to wear on Father’s day.  Marie be-jeweled her tie for Shane and Oliver glued miniature games and a kazoo for entertainment during sacrament meeting.  Shane employed

The fun of our family camp out started Memorial Day weekend with pouring rain and highs well below 60 degrees.  Honestly we were so depressed that we considered calling off the camp out and flying somewhere, anywhere but here.  Shane even made me a batch of PA sticky buns for one breakfast to cheer me