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Thursday was a beautiful day, the lake was calm, and I got to ski. Finally! This was my first ski of 2010, my first ski as a 30-year-old, and my first ski as a mother of two. Pretty big deal. 🙂 Grandma and Grandpa Cole came out in the boat with us for lunch (thankContinue reading “Back in the Saddle (Ski)”

Haley started smiling two weeks ago but they are so tough to catch on camera! She is consistently smiley after her 10 AM feeding, so this morning I was ready. I also set the camera on continuous shutter, so I got a bazillion pictures in a row and managed to catch some great grins. ItContinue reading “Smiles”

It came! It rocks! If you want more details, keep reading. If you just want to look at pictures of the kids, scroll on. 🙂 So our new Phil & Teds Explorer stroller came on Monday. We were so excited to put it together and take it for a spin. After months of deliberating andContinue reading “The New Stroller”

My kids are blessed with people who like to make them blankets of all types… they each have a big fleece blanket from Aunt Linda (that we use in the boat), a small fleece blanket (that we use in the stroller), a square flannel (that we use in the car), a quilt for decoration inContinue reading “Sara Blankets”

Welcome, fall! JT has been having a great time spotting pumpkins and spiders. We even saw a bee land in a spider’s web yesterday – and we watched the spider crawl over, wrap up the bee, and hoist it away. Awesome! We are spending a little more time indoors with the change in weather butContinue reading “Fall”

In the past, we’ve gone to the big Salmon Days festival in Issaquah to watch the salmon spawn. This year, we opted to go to the hatchery on Monday after the festival and were pleasantly surprised to find lots of salmon, lots of FISH volunteers giving talks, and no crowds. (FISH stands for Friends ofContinue reading “Salmon Days”

We just loved watching Alabama roll over Florida in today’s game. Even though no one is here to notice, the whole family wears colors to watch the game. I took a moment to get a big brother/little sister picture before kick-off!

Small children understand technology faster and easier than some middle-aged adults. Why? Because they are digital natives. Marc Prensky does a whole presentation on the differences between digital natives and digital immigrants, and I’ve heard him speak at a couple of conferences. A lot of my outside-of-the-home job revolves around that, as we utilize thisContinue reading “Digital Native”

We have been slowly getting used to the fact that Jim has to work at our house. His work schedule changed this week and he had to work seven days in a row – yuck. Fortunately, I have great kids and that makes the transition a little easier. This also means I’ve been home aContinue reading “Settling In”

We spent Jim’s last day of paternity leave (sad!) at the Puyallup Fair (fun!). JT had thought that he would see pigs at the zoo, and we didn’t, so we were hopeful that he would see them at the fair. And we did! Getting ready to go – paused for “Hold baby sister please?” HoldingContinue reading “Doin’ the Puyallup”