7th birthday party

We had to postpone Griffin's birthday for two weeks, due to the blizzard we had the week of his birthday.  But the pirate party happened today and it was a big success, according to the kids who attended.

They played games in the gym for an hour with our fabulous gym teacher (who volunteered to come and even let Griffin choose the games).

Then they had presents and a pirate ship cake, which is when Griffin started to fade (he's been sick for a week or so).

One final activity was a treasure hunt, the kids had to read clues and follow the path around the school to find the treasure chest with goodies for everyone.  Griffin came home and went straight to bed, but had a wonderful time despite his exhaustion.

Snowmageddon 2012

Griffin the birthday boy - what better way to celebrate than with fresh snow!

Concentrating on the snowball fight

Trudging to the store on the fifth day of the snowpocalypse - we're out of milk!

Washington Husky Basketball Game

At Hec Ed Pavilion for the women's basketball game, he had to have a UW sweatshirt!

Something's missing...

Summer, 2011

I was reminded this past weekend (thanks, Patty!) that this blog hadn't been updated in a while, and I'm sad to see that it was almost a year ago!  I'll try to be better about that in the future.  In the meantime, here are some photos of our fun summer.  Griffin and I had an Adventure Week, where we did something new every day, we went up to Saturna Island in B.C. for a week (longer than our usual four-day weekend), and got ready for our school year.

 Ft. Casey - Whidbey Island

Whidbey Island

Tiger Mountain hike to Big Tree

Woodland Park Zoo w/ cousins Eva and Malcolm from Massachusetts

Saturna Island w/ Grandpa

Saturna Island

Saturna Island (Grandpa & Tumbo)

Saturna Island

Saturna Island playing tennis w/ Grandma

Sunset from the hill on Saturna Island

Saturna Island (U.S. and Mt. Baker in the background)

Sunset at Saturna Island

Halloween 2010

Yoda!

Pea Patch Garden - September, 2010

I haven't been very good at keeping the blog up to date about our garden this year. We have a slightly bigger plot, with the added bonus of a scarecrow made by a class last year. The weather has been less than helpful this summer, with many more cloudy and rainy days than sunny ones. So there are many green tomatoes still on the vine, waiting to ripen, while the pumpkin vine has already withered.

Here are some photos of the garden in its September glory.

The whole garden with the scarecrow. We had some fabulous lettuce in the left corner that lasted all summer.

Zucchini that never made it past the bloom stage, but the flowers are pretty! The basil, rosemary and sugar snap peas did well, though.

One green pepper!

We do have some red tomatoes, but there are more green ones than red.

Tomatoes on their way out, sadly.

I love weird looking carrots, and we have a bunch! (get it, a bunch???)

Griffin's lone pumpkin! We tried to grow more, but they never made it past the flower stage. I guess the bees were elsewhere, or maybe it was that bee shortage I read about?