An entire year in pics!

Well, so it's been a few months since we've updated our blog...so we will be doing a year in review with pictures in slightly disjointed order :)

We went to some concerts

 The Piano Guys (here is  us with Steven the cello player)

 Folklife at the Seattle Center (a cool marimba band brought along hula hoops for the audience)

Caspar Babypants (lead singer of The Presidents of the United States of America who also sings kids songs)

We've also spent some good time around home, enjoying the loveliness.

 The garden kept us quite busy

 Two baby kitties arrived

 And they are still loved and cared for

 The trampoline was a great place to play "meat cat" or just jumping. "What is "meat cat"?" you may ask. Well, come on over for a visit and the kids will teach you.

 Going on bike rides in the sun is always fun--rain boots make exploring that much easier.

Fun at the beach--time spent digging, wading, building and relaxing

 Exploring the corn fields--the stalks get up to 10'+

 Our garden was super happy this year. Once again, I think next year's garden will have to be bigger...

Love the beautiful sunsets here

 

 Yea for yummy tomatoes! We can totally grow huge tomatoes up here--the growing season is just unpredictable... We grew a nice variety of heirlooms.

  

Double rainbow

Playing out in the cornfield on the ice ponds, "ice skating"

We also ventured out to explore

 Hiking above Leavenworth

 

C really loves his Landcruiser! It's our Adventure Rig - always ready to take us neat places.

 Biking the Hiawatha Trail in Idaho w/ 7 tunnels & 7 high steel tressels

 Going on a sailing trip to Blake Island with our canoe (you can just see it in the back of the boat) and camping on the beach

 

Working on the driftwood fort

Canoeing around the island

 The sunset on the return trip

  Camping up in the mountains

 Mt. Rainier

 

 Hiking around eastern WA

 Sand driving course in Oregon

 

 The Oregon coast - on the way home.

More of the Oregon coast

Fun times spent with cousins

 

 

 Playing in grandma & grandpa Tidwell's backyard

 Girls at the park

Playing out in the woods during family camp w/ the Nelson family

Fun at Silverwood amusement park (the kids hated the roller coaster - darn!)

And miscellaneous other things

 Rock climbing classes - H did really well.

 Visiting the Fremont troll w/ our little boogers

 Enjoying the scenery on one of our long drives

 sunset

 Visiting the rescued wild cats at Cat Tales -F was in heaven

 Eating in a restored 100yr old diner train car

 Rescuing a baby house sparrow

 Mountain biking for the first time

 Celebrating a birthday Skippyjon Jones style, with a chihuahua party

 Visiting our favorite penguins at the zoo

 

 Spending time together

 Playing in the blackberry hideout

Dressing up for halloween

 And White Friday of course--the day after Thanksgiving we all head up in the mountains to have a fancy picnic of leftovers, play in the snow, and cut down the family Christmas tree.

 We hope this caught you up. We are sorry for not being very good at keeping this up. Our company keeps us extremely busy. But C is having the time of his life and the business is very successful.
Feel free to come by and visit any ol' time, the door's open!