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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”

We had some pretty exciting mail this week! We’ve been sponsoring a child in Sri Lanka through World Vision for over a year, and we hadn’t received any communication from her. The average time to receive any mail from a child is three months, so we were surprised but tried to be patient. We sendContinue reading “Postcard from Wishmika!”

It’s our fifth anniversary of traveling to Naches, Washington for a weekend in the snow with our #roomiereunion buddies. We love spending time with the five other families we’ve known since college. This year we had 12 adults and 17 children (with two still baking in their mama ovens). We arrived at dinnertime on SaturdayContinue reading “Bethel Ridge Weekend 2017”

I kicked off 2017 with all sorts of fun. I took my niece Madi on a “day with Aunt Becky” before she went back to college. We worked out, went shopping, had lunch (and dessert!), and saw a movie. Then I went to a local MIE Expert event. It’s my Microsoft teacher group who connectsContinue reading “All Sorts of Fun”

We have really enjoyed the lull between Christmas and New Year’s, when there isn’t much going on and we can all be home together. One of the fun things we did one rainy day was make bread for Grandpa and Grandma Cole, which was JT’s idea. Actually, I wrote that incorrectly. The kids made bread.Continue reading “Happy New Year”