I love Spring?

This video was taken last Friday, March 28.




Snow on my cherry tree? Seriously, winter needs to end.

Same day....



That poor daffodil ended up like this:
It bounced back after it melted the next day.

"Coldest last week of March" in the last zillion years. Good grief.

Easter

Easter was very fun. In the morning, we went up to my sister's house for brunch and an egg hunt. It was POURING down rain, so we hid the eggs inside. I was apparently channeling Mom, and found all the funny places to put eggs in Michelle's house. Here I am hiding the eggs.

Nora, Owen and Caroline, finding some eggs.
Nora, Miles and Caroline pose for me. Stefan is in the background, he is hard to capture on film these days.
Caroline found all the pink eggs.
In the afternoon, we went up to Grandma Meredith's for dinner. The Easter Bunny left the kids an amazing bubble gun with fan-action.

The bubbles were that kind of bubble that don't pop when they land, and the whole lawn was covered!




It had actually stopped raining for a while, and there was a rainbow, hail, super dark clouds and CRAZY wind. We are having a very weird Spring.

Craft Day at Chick P's house

So it would seem we have done almost nothing of interest lately, seems we have taken very few photos, hopefully that will pick up soon.

Last weekend, we crafting Superheros got together for a Crafting Event at Peggy's house. I got no photo of myself crafting, although I did finish knitting a scarf and do some needlework. Peggy cooked us some amazing tacos, Geni hemmed her curtains, Kristina made an adorable hoodie,

and Beth organized her jewelry and bead box.


Peggy also showed us her amazing jumping cat, Verne!!


That cat was amazing!

Cort + Kia

On this brilliant February day, Kristina and I packed up the kids in the Batmobile, and headed across the Sound to Sequim, for Cort and Kia's wedding reception.

Here we are on the ferry:



It was a full on reunion of U of O folks, with a few of us extras thrown in. Here are Kristina and Max, out on the deck.
















Peter, in his fancy schmancy sport coat, and Robin, they may or may not be getting married, they were rather evasive about being asked directly......







Here is Peter in his natural habitat at a wedding, dancing with the kids....That is Caroline, Dylan, Avery and Asher doing his down-dog.




Caroline and the shorter ones with the bubbles. Fathead is in the background.


















Asher in his excellent sweater vest.

























Kristina and Avery enjoy the fantastic meal...






Cort and Kia, could not be more adorable.













Paul Heinz and his Pugaranium. You could tell it was part pug because when he got it out of the car, it immediately ran in circles, barking.







Max, Olivia, Frank and Kristina.









Two of us looking fabulous.

















Miles, boogy-ing. The band, Zasu, was great, as usual....


Paul Heinz giving a VERY inspired toast....
Kia thanking everyone:














Frank, and his sleeping daughter, and M. C. Gowen, that funny guy. It sure was great to see everyone again. Beautiful wedding, fun friends, gorgeous weather. Perfect.

This made me laugh today

If you haven't seen this, watch this one first:

This is pretty funny:


Now this one:

Things are warming up...

Despite what the groundhog said, it is looking really nice around here. That month of temps in the 30s was really getting old....






The flowering cherry started blooming on Valentine's day, right on cue, like it always does.








And my kitchen orchid is in full bloom!

Lodge Weekend

Every President's Day weekend for the last 7 years we have gone up to a big lodge at Snoqualmie Pass with my sister and her family and eight or so other families for weekend at the snow. This year there was a ridiculous amount of snow. In fact, the weekend before, we would not have made it, because the pass was closed!

We have been there before when there was almost no snow at all!! This was very exciting.
Also, this year, the weather was gorgeous. Mid-high 30s without a cloud in the sky!
We spent as much time as we could outside--I had borrowed Kristina's snowshoes, which I loved, because the first day, the snow was so soft, you would just sink all the way up to the top of your legs!
Here are the kids making snow angels. The snow was not as soft this day.
Snow angel:
We went for a walk over the meadow and through the woods with Cousin Owen. This seems to have become a yearly tradition....
Here they are on the top of a tractor trailer truck covered with snow:
With the sun so bright, and all that exertion, Miles was hot. So he put his face in the snow to cool down:
Every year we walk to this little cabin to check it out. Normally we can look inside. This year we could walk to the top of the roof!
Owen was mad at Uncle Nick for "making" him get snow in his boots. He had to take them off and empty them, Miles "tried" to help out. Two 11 year old boys in the snow trying to deal with footwear. It was pretty funny. To us.
The sky was so extraordinarily beautiful, you just had to stare at it. Although I was wearing sunglasses, my eyes hurt after this walk....
In the afternoon we went sledding on "The Big Hill". If you asked the children, it was super fun. If you ask the adults, it was borderline unsafe.....Then the menfolk started a sledding contest which became hugely funny, especially when Alec's last run broke his sled.
Stefan, Gabe, Jose, Bob,Zach, Alec (with sled), Hayden,Tom, Miles, Caroline, Me,Scout, Caitlin, Owen