Monthly Archives: February 2017

Last week we celebrated Grandma Christensen’s 92nd birthday as well as Grandma Cole’s 61st birthday. We enjoyed visiting and singing to Grandma Christensen and playing “The Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly” with the doll my cousin Alyssa got her. JT has been trying to find some new books. He is in a tough spot whereContinue reading “Birthdays, Books, and Basketball”

We finally decided it was time to teach the kids to ski. We had some friends suggest that we take a whole weekend and enroll them in lessons so they could get lots of practice in a row. So off we went to Wenatchee to ski at Mission Ridge. Jim and I were excited to getContinue reading “Ski Weekend”

We got a great deal on a night at Great Wolf Lodge a few months ago and booked it for this weekend, as a sort of family Valentine’s Day gift. (Of course, Jim got me earrings anyway… but that was not the plan.) We arrived on Sunday evening after JT’s baseball tryouts and checked inContinue reading “Great Wolf Lodge”

We got snow. Lots and lots of snow. The most we’ve had in five years, apparently! This first picture was taken first thing in the morning, but then it snowed allllll day. The general consensus was 9 inches in our neighborhood. Wow! Our power went out at 5 AM. I woke up and went downstairsContinue reading “Snowpacalypse 2017”

With two of our nephews recovering from a bad flu, our oldest nephew on Jim’s side came to spend the weekend with us. He fit right in with our weekend plans and was so easy to have around. First we went to JT’s basketball game. Haley wasn’t smiling here because she missed the countdown, butContinue reading “Special Visitor”

Can you believe it? We barely can. We went on our first date together 20 years ago. TWENTY YEARS. It feels like a very long time, and yet it’s all gone by so quickly. For our first date, we went to the Seattle Boat Show and to Ivar’s on the waterfront for dinner. I thinkContinue reading “20 Years of Jim + Becky”

One of our favorite things to do is to invest in our children. I am so thrilled that I get to spend time at our kids’ school this year! I volunteer one morning a week and spend time in both kids’ classes. Haley got to use the 3D computer with me last week to dissectContinue reading “Life with Kids”