Jonathan & Lindsey's Family Blog

Kieron turned eleven this year. At eleven, this kid is super sweet, has matured immensely, and is typically pretty mild-mannered and fun to be around. He’s definitely an old soul. Thoughtful, contemplative, loyal, calm and insightful, Kieron still has a super memory, loves to cook, bake and read, and adores animals, although I think it is safe to say he is a cat person. We love him so much!

The Julius Boehem Chocolate Factory opened back up for tours recently, so we knew just how to celebrate our little chef this year. We had a lot of fun touring the local factory, which has been operating since 1942 and moved to Issaquah in 1956. We all really enjoyed sampling the chocolates at the end too!

Breakfast crepes

Luggage from Nana

“What could be in this little box?”

“Hello?”

These pics are from later in the week, opening gifts from Grammy and Papa

Butter pecan ice cream cake with a graham cracker crust and caramel topping

The chocolate factory

Avery, Kieron, Luke, Layla, Ethan, Silas & Alex




Back at the house afterwards

Another tooth bites the dust

Found this little guy frantically trapped in our trampoline

Freedom!

Caroline’s birthday

Selfie fun

In case you ever wondered what Jonathan looks like as Lloyd, from Dumb and Dumber

Playdate at Mason’s

Weird Covid related scene

Random screenshot from a FaceTime conversation

Jonathan was dying to go to Sisters and Brothers for their fried chicken recommended by Kenji Lopez. It didn’t disappoint.

When you have three siblings

Somehow my shirt ended up in Avery’s closet and he thought it was his

I told the kids I was going to start using silly punishments like push-ups and can holding so they wanted to try them out

This spring Layla took up soccer and Kieron gave flag football a shot. Here are some pics of the season.

Flag football

When we bought our home we knew re-carpeting was in the five-year plan. We decided to pull the trigger this spring. We also knew if we wanted to update our fireplace, the time to do it was before the new carpet was installed. DIYers that we are, we decided there was no reason we couldn’t take this little project on. Haha! Joke was on us. We learned tile work is not very fun, especially vertical tile work. It was a true test of marriage. Fortunately, we passed, but I think our tiling days are over! This job is worth leaving to the pros.

Before:

The bottom wasn’t terrible

Laying out the design – devil is in the details!

Cutting tile is finicky, especially when it’s herringbone

In the meantime, I found some cute chairs at Home Goods!

Family room is coming together nicely

Isn’t this fun?!

Silas proved to be a big help brushing the grout

Almost done!

Done. Now we just need that nasty carpet out!

Eeeewwww! Look at the difference!

Voila!

We went to Grammy and Papa’s in April for part of spring break and brought Grammy back with us for a while. Papa came to celebrate her birthday at our place. We had a lot of fun catching up. Happy birthday, Grammy!

Birthday pedicures

We had a visit with Caroline and Clare

Ping pong!