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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

We had a lot of fun for Oliver’s birthday.  Shane headed off to work and I put aside all my chores to read with the kids.  Then because it was sunny out we went for a long walk and visited all three parks in our area.  After lunch Daddy got home and the playing and

Shane took this shot one day right when he got home from work.  Ironically the house itself is the money pit at the end of the rainbow, but the people that live in it are definitely the gold.  After all who wouldn’t enjoy people comfortable wearing these sunglasses. 

We have been working into a “school” schedule at our house so when the baby comes we already have something going and can take a break of sorts until we normalize out.  In fact it has been so gradual that Marie didn’t even know she was doing “school” until she told me that she wanted More >

The debate has been waging at our house about what to do with our back yard play area.  We got rid of the old sand box and didn’t want to put down wood chips again since the kids get slivers from them.  The kids gave us their own opinion by playing in the pile of

We have been really busy at our house so these pictures are late.  My mothers day started Friday when Shane came home with a bench for the front yard and a beautiful Japanese maple for the back yard.
On Saturday Marie and I spent some girl time shopping for flowers to finally finish filling in our More >