I love my new camera and the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival !

(more pictures to come ... some day ...)

(For ladies eyes only)

This is GREAT!

Members of Quilters of South Carolina have created one-of-a-kind bras for Breast Cancer Awareness. The exhibit consists of fifty original works of art which are unique, entertaining, humorous, and beautiful to make the public aware of breast cancer, to memorialize those lost to the disease, and to honor survivors ... .

http://www.quiltersofsc.org/artfullbras/artfullbras.htm

I like monkey business and nursing bra ...

Non-April Fools

Here's to our wacky weather this year ... (and no, this is no April Fools, although I wish it was) ...

Weekend fun!

Here's a few pictures from our weekend. Enjoy!

Camera fun (we still have a lot to learn)...

Playing in the sun(it's been a long time since we've seen sun here) ...

Jillian's latest hobby - making yarn bugs ...

Yet more pictures!

Here are a few pictures of the lastest happenings at our house...poor Sadie will be very bored when Gidget goes home tomorrow...






And the beauty of a camera with a great zoom ... Camryn took this one ...

This is Gidget saying, "I miss you Mommy! Come home!"

Our anniversary vacation

Okay, most people would take a great vacation for their 20 year anniversary ... but, for several reasons, we didn't. Instead, Addison surprised me with the absolute best gift today - something that we both can enjoy for many years to come - a new camera! No, not just any camera ... a brand, spanken new Nikon D90 SLR! WOW! Only in my wildest dreams could I ever imagine owning one of these beauties! I have been asking for a DSLR for about a year now - but never thought I/we would get a NEW one! Ya know, buy one of the older models and it's cheaper - but I guess this is cheaper than a vacation for us two - okay, maybe not - but it will last longer! Now we need to figure out how in the world to use it! Here are a few action shots from this evening (without even reading the manual yet).




And here is a picture of our house guest.

Leprechaun Mischief

Well, the magical leprechauns were less than kind to us this year. Two years ago they tainted our toilet water and milk green - along with many other pranks. This year, Jillian made a wonderful trap, in hopes of catching the tricky little guys - but they were worse than ever. Instead of tainting our milk and toilet water, they just mocked us with their Leprechan Slime! Our toilet, milk carton, back door, and even Jillian's trap were all covered with this nasty green slime! And to top it off, they even "greened" our dog! We'll get them next year...





But the good thing is the snow this morning was still white ... not GREEN!

Happy 20th Anniversary!

In case you are someone who reads blogs ... but not facebook ... here are a few pictures from our recent 20 year anniversary "date"!






Addison surprised me with a very cool dinner cruise on puget sound! I had no idea where we were going, and the girls were NOT going to give me any hints! Glad I dressed up for a change!

Nothing New ...

Nothing new is happing ... but I think I now have the most obnoxious looking blog around. I thought that since I changed the look, that I should at least write a new entry. Let's see ... hmmmmm ... what HAVE we been up to?

Musical practice has started up, so that has kept Camryn and I busy. This year's title is Chitty Chatty Bang Bang and it opens Feb 6 and 7 and continues the 13 and 14. Camryn was first to get a solo, and now is in a small dance group (3 ballerinas) and actually has a speaking part/okay, one line (totally unheard of for a 4th grader). She is thrilled as you can guess. I spend all weekend at rehearsals, and all week updating stage charts. It's an exhausting time, but it really is a lot of fun! Jillian will be onstage for 2 songs with the K-2nd grade and Mikaela is a youth staff so will be onstage with them also. I still have to get two costumes made for Camryn and one for Jillian. Better get busy! Gymnastics team ends this week for Mikaela, so that will help our lives a lot! I get my live-in-sitter back.

Guess that's about it. We hit Joanne's today and cleaned out the on-sale fleece, so I get to make up some cool looking and very warm blankies for everyone this week! How fun! Maybe the musical costumes can wait 'till next week ...

Laminin! You've Gotta Watch This!

More Snow Pictures

Here are a few more snow pictures - at the request of Sharla. For you in Denver, they are not very exciting, for you see snow regularly. For us who don't - they are quite fun. We are on day 10 of snow here in Seattle ... and it sounds like we will have a white Christmas after all!

After snowing all night, Sadie had a hard time finding a place to potty yesterday morning.Mikaela put Zoey out in the snow - she didn't like it much. Here she is trying to get back in the door!

After being stuck in the house for four solid days, we decided to take our new toy out to play. Yesterday we drove to Westfield Mall in the deepest snow of the week! Fortunately, there were not many drivers out, we got some fun pictures, the mall was pretty deserted, and our new toy did great! We all had a wonderful time!

This is the Benson ... .
Yes, I took pictures of stuck drivers - there were plenty of them!

The Blizzard Hits Seattle

Here are a couple of pictures of our blizzard in Seattle. We are only about 2 hours into it - snow, wind, cold ... who knows what we will wake up to tomorrow morning!

The wind is suppose to get bad tonight, so we are all braced for power outages. The snow is suppose to fall all night, so it looks like no one is going anywhere tomorrow. And then if we still have power after all that, the freezing rain comes in, and will knock out all remaining power. Glad Santa has flying reindeer and a sleigh! He will love it here!

A new blog!

Our family writer, Camryn, has started her own blog! Feel free to visit as often as you like. I'm sure she will be updating frequently (if her e-mail activity is any indication). Her blog address is thewaterdolphin.blogspot.com. Your positive comments would be greatly appreciated! :)

Let it snow

Day 5 of snow in Seattle ... and all is well!

Poppa's Leaves

Every year we take the girls to Nana and Poppa's house to jump in their leaves. Mikaela wasn't as thrilled with the dirty smelly leaves this year as in years past, but we had to have the traditional "picture in the pretty fall leaves" anyway.

Texans sit in weeds, we sit in moldy leaves. Who knows why...