December photo project - pretty city lights

{on our way to see A Christmas Carol}

life lately - according to my phone

getting our kitten fix

out for coffee with my Dad

favorite cake EVER

after dinner

fudgesicle + winter coat = summer in Seattle

brown

teaching JarJar to swim through the hoop

sweet silly friends

Hebrew school at church

inspired by this video

Us on a Sunday night

Croc flip flops. So comfy.

to the pool?

Henry's place at the table

she's thinking about Christmas

still thinking about Christmas

pretty new sweater from Grandma (and such a pretty girl, too)

Met the Queen (and picked up the cake)

monkeys

sleepy

we see this A LOT

hiding Scottie

he's cute.

walking the Bridge

YEAH!!

work in progress - originally started in December and now almost done! ;)

she loves her Daddy

Garfield is the popular choice this summer

teaching the kids to enjoy salad for dinner

craft camp at Michaels

Life is precious! We are soaking it up!

Field Trip: bee farm

Exactly one year ago the kids and I met a bee keeper, Gary, outside of Starbucks.  He was carrying a gallon of his honey and asked us to keep an eye on it while he went inside to buy his coffee.  We struck up a conversation and I mentioned how I'd always wanted to take our children to a honey farm to see how honey is made.  He put me in touch with a homeschooling group and said he'd love to have us come the following June.  Fast forward 12 months and here we are.

It was truly such a cool experience to watch these bees hard at work doing what they do.  Gary was so patient with all the kids, letting each of them wear the bee suits, use the smoker, pet the drones, identify the queen and just generally observe his million (literally) bees!  Before our trip to Heavenly Honey, Henry was terrified of bees, afterwards he's a total pro.  (Big proud smile from Mommy.)

If you are ever in need of some local (Seattle), organic honey, this is your guy.

today...

...at the pool.  It was 58 degrees and windy.  And the light was really, really strange.  But that didn't stop my two little fishes, they were the last ones out at closing time as usual.  We are so thankful to have this new wave pool just up the street.  

birthday parasail

A 10th Birthday celebration at its best!!

the long weekend, briefly

a Saturday morning Monopoly game

celebrating turning 10! (more on this to come later)

the cheering section!

the view (so fun to see our city from this angle)

the fro-yo treat afterwards

the wiggly teeth

his and hers iced coffee

(after a year of hemming and hawing I finally broke down and made the Pioneer Women's recipe for iced coffee concentrate.  Delish.)

Oh yes we did....go to Chuck E Cheese on a holiday weekend.  We must have been feeling brave.

the hamster wheel  ;)

the planting of some new pretties

the Saturday morning game that finally ended at 7:45 Monday night.  Whew!