My Dad and Else came up for a visit for 10 days around Thanksgiving. It was so nice to spend time with them. We relaxed, worked on puzzles, played games and even did some early Black Friday shopping! We met family for dinner one evening Lots of food and fun family...

Yay Molly!  She entered the PTSA Reflections contest this year in photography and she won first place!  Her photo will go on to State to be judged.  She was so excited!

It feels like we blinked and Sage turned 14!  We opened presents really early before school.  Then on Friday night, we took a bunch of her friends to the Sugar Factory in Bellevue.  They had so much fun and so did Tom and I.  We are so proud of you Sage and are...

This fall has been amazing!  We have had less rain than normal, which means we have been able to be outside and enjoy the beautiful leaves!!  I just love fall!

While this was not the date we had planned, it was a great day!  We drove up on a beautiful fall day to go walk around the Arboretum in Seattle.  Apparently everyone else in the Seattle area had the same idea and there was no where to park.  We ended up going to Molly...

We started off Tom's 45th birthday with a 2K run!  Molly has been wanting to do a race with Tom, so we found this short one nearby!  The rain held off for them and she did a great job.  I am so proud of Tom...not because of the race, but because of how much weight he...

And so it begins...another new year of school.  Everyone was excited for school to start and ready for routine again.  We'll see how long that lasts.......

Happy Birthday to me!  Woohoo!  Another year! Tom was down in Portland all last week, so he came back for the day to celebrate my birthday and the girls' last day of summer! We started off the morning relaxing around the house and then went out on our 10th family...

How can it be that summer is over already.  We had a busy summer, but I think it's the best summer we have had as a family for a long time!  As usual, I have a hard time keeping up with the blog over the summer, so here's our traditional end of the summer...

After Church on Father's Day we headed over to Whidbey Island.  It was a lot of driving for a day that many of us were tired, but I think it ended up being a good day over all.  The only bummer is that we didn't get a picture of Tom and Molly!  She was far out...