We watched the anime movie Mary and the Witch’s Flower with the girls last week. The characters speak with a British accent and one of the main characters has the name of Peter. Cate asked us, confusedly, “Why is that boy’s name ‘Pizza’?” And I’ve now been hearing the name ‘Pizza’ being used in some […]
Category: Cate
Rockies Game
Picnic and a Rockies Game (compliments of Greg’s employer). This was the first Rockies game for Bree and Cate. Adrianna had attended one when she was much younger. It was a lot of fun explaining baseball to Adrianna and Bree as the game went on. Of course, our Breezy girl had to plug her ears […]
Snow Mountain Ranch
We stayed two nights at the Snow Mountain Ranch – YMCA of the Rockies. Greg and the girls making hiking sticks for our afternoon hike. What you don’t see: for much of the mile hike to the waterfall (near Granby), one of the children was whining and complaining, often stopping to throw her stick to […]
Kindergarten
Kindergarten wore someone out (and it was only a half day today!)
First Day of School 2018
First Day of [Home]School. (Well, technically we’ve been doing some schoolwork for the last couple of weeks, but this was the first official day of their homeschool electives school.) Adrianna (8th Grade) Bree (3rd Grade)Cate (Kindergarten) Cate has been waiting for this day for MONTHS. She was ready to march off to school the day […]
Swimming
We visited Broomfield Bay today. (Thanks Broomfield Library for the reading program passes!) Bree got brave enough to try the big slides for the first time on her own (thanks to the encouragement of her friend, Greta.) Cate rescued a ladybug from the water and found it a new home in the flower bed. And […]
Bib
I am wearing an apron while cooking dinner tonight (since I tend to make a mess when making homemade lasagna) and Cate just asked me why I am wearing a bib.
Space Needle, Then and Now
Us in Seattle on the Space Needle: Then (May 2000 as newlyweds) and Now (July 2018, with our three daughters along)
Spheres
Earlier this week, we got to visit the Amazon Go Store (it felt weird grabbing items and then just walking out!) and Greg also took us into the Amazon Spheres (https://www.seattlespheres.com/) in downtown Seattle. Such a cool place!
Alki Beach
Alki Beach at low tide. The girls were a little grossed out by all the slimy seaweed exposed during the low tide, but we saw lots of neat ocean life, including a red lion’s mane jellyfish, anemone, and lots of crabs of several types. There were a few naturalists from the aquarium that were on […]