The Other 9-11

It's our anniversary today, 11 years young. Love you Babe.

*D had to leave us before the actual day, so we celebrated at Five a few days early.

Miles for Midwives

Come support a very improtant part of our community!

2.8 mile Family-Friendly Fun Run/Walk

Saturday, October 9, 2010
Seward Park in South Seattle
5895 Lake Washington Boulevard South
10 am to Noon

*find their website here

Bawk-Bawk Buh-KAK!

We got our first egg this morning!   It's so tiny and cute, I don't know if I could eat it (see the comparison in the egg carton)!  We think it came from Azelea, our Black Star.  E has daily chicken duty, and she was just beaming when she found it in our make-shift egg box laying next the the 'trainer egg,' a golf ball.  When she brought it up to the house, I actually screamed!

Free Printable Bookmarks

How awesome are these?

We printed this "Nose in a Book" one for our Ramona series.

The Backyard Homestead

Got it from the Library and really enjoying it!

Goodbye Summer

We didn't get a full summer this year: It started late and ended early.  Today we visited Mora in Kingston to blow a kiss and to lift our glasses (cones) high to the rapidly ending season.  Come quickly again.

Poulsbo Plunder

We met up with Christy Ann, Gracie and Brian this afternoon at our old rental (her parent's property) out on the peninsula.  I wanted to get enough blackberries to make a batch of jam tomorrow, but we went home with much more!  It was great fun to hear the kids running around and N of course got another fruity piggyback in the sun.  It's always a bit strange to go back to the place we called home for 3 years, where we brought our darling girl home and into our lives: She swears she remembers (being 10 months old) living there.  I think she just remembers the video's she's watched over and over.  Either way being in that same place with her was kind of sacred in a way, and then watching N teeter around on those same floors in that same air was overwhelming and beautiful.  Christy Ann sent me home with bags full of veggies, and a beautiful school desk and Kindergarten curriculum for our upcoming first go at homeschooling.  It was a very pleasant visit, and dragging E and Gracie apart was difficult, so much so that we were literally the last car on the overcrowded return ferry home.

Blueberries in Bellevue

We drove a few minutes East for a few hours of blueberry picking this afternoon with Jen, Rachel and their kids.  Because E still refuses to be helpful on this particular outing (eating or throwing more than she drops into her pail) I ended up pulling in just over 4 pounds on my own...Oh, alright N helped...sort of; he rode piggyback and would whine and complain until I backed him into a nice reachable spot for him to pluck berries off himself...but he didn't share! We were all exhausted when we got home.

*iPhone camera today