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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”

Christmas Eve began with baking and basketball. We also got JT a littlebits Gizmos & Gadgets set, and graduated Haley into Snap Circuits, so there was lots of time building and designing during the afternoon as well. We also went to visit my grandma. The kids both picked out a Christmas book to read toContinue reading “Christmas 2016”

Let’s see. Monday, Jim and I had a date night after basketball practice to see Rogue One. We lovvvved it and we would love to see it again! We saw it with friends, and we all went out to frozen yogurt afterward. Tuesday we made Christmas cookies with my side of the family. We broughtContinue reading “Almost Christmas”

What a weekend! We started Saturday morning with baseball camp for JT. Then we got ready for Singing Christmas Tree with friends. Afterward, we all met for dinner at a restaurant. We had one table of 8 adults and one table of 10 kids! Jim and I left from there (our friends delivered our childrenContinue reading “Weekend Before Christmas”