Our friends invited us out on their wake boat on Lake Sammamish. Silas and Layla both loved knee boarding.

Cody, the mini doodle

Layla wanted to recreate an AI image I produced of Phoebe in a tutu and snorkel

Some pictures from Pullman

Goofing around

Jonathan, Kieron and Silas visited Nana and helped around the yard

Facetiming with Avery

Phoebe turned six! She got a birthday omelet.

Silas’ middle school band got to play at a high school football game

A night out at Saints with friends

My friend, Niki, came to visit from Arizona

Avery, home on a weekend

Layla and Millie at the ice rink

Trivia night with girlfriends

We hatched butterflies

Cross Country season was underway. Avery came to support Silas at his first meet.

Layla earned $50 for being the school photo model. Her picture was used on postcards and these signs at all the schools in our district

Halloween costumes arrived

Someone loves her costume
  

At the Wildcats Cheer and Football auction
  

Close encounters for the pets

We updated our kitchen a little with a teal island and gold hardware

Jonathan’s anniversary gift – a wood carved Salish Sea topographical map

We’ve been baking our own sour dough bread

We went to see The Head and the Heart and The Lumineers with friends in August. It was such a great concert. Definitely the best we went to this year, and so fun with friends!

We went to dinner at The Met

Y, being her sassy self


 

Latest home project – fresh paint on the kitchen island

At the new wine and book store in town

Layla had a sleepover. Avery is such a good sport sometimes.

Layla and her friends cheered in the Railroad Days parade

We went to Pullman at the end of the month to visit my parents and help with some home projects

Whidbey, hoarding toys

Took Silas and Layla to the water park to cool off

Uncle Scott & Aunt Manivanh’s garden

Biscuits and gravy by Uncle Scott

Layla and Millie, kneeboarding buddies

We enjoyed hanging out in Bellingham while Silas and Layla were in sailing camp. We got together with Nicole a few times!  Here we are at Boundary Bay Brewery for probably the last time. After 30 years they are closing their doors.

Mallard ice cream!

Sailing camp homework

We got matching LFS sweatshirts

Good morning, Bellingham Bay!

Went out for drinks with Nicole at Orion

We checked out Avery’s dorm building, Ridgeway Kappa

Happy Hour at a new brewery, Beach Cat

We all went to Trackside Beer Garden for dinner one evening. This used to be the site of the old, stinky paper mill that ran while Jonathan and I were in college. I love what they’ve done with it!

We visited our old neighbors, Tom and Nicole and walked down to the beach together