merry christmas!

Super fun art museum deal

Lindsey and I went to the art museum for a special kids' day program. We toured the Calder exhibit and then Lindsey got to make a wire and assorted materials sculpture. Ailsa, the doll with the duct-taped legs came too. There was also a bus ride downtown, lunch at the market, and even a little Christmas shopping. It was a lot of fun!

Turn this in for pumpkin pie!

Here are some fun kid pics from our Thanksgiving visit to Omaha - lots of cousin and grandparent fun. More here.

iphone camera fun

Elise's composition of items dropped through the railing

Lindsey with new 99cent purse at Fuel Coffee
Chris at the Sounders playoff game
Sounders game
backup halloween costume/winter coat - $5 score
butterfly at the park
butterfly asleep in the car, post h1n1 shot

new hat and pumpkins

First photo - no explanation other than we bought a new cute hat.

We carved two more pumpkins yesterday. Lindsey drew a princess and a silly face with her tongue sticking out for the patterns. The pictures are sort of similar to last year, and it's crazy that I was hugely pregnant just a little more than a year ago.

Elise is 1!

Here are a few fun photos from Elise's birthday party. Kids got to dress up - Elise looked great in her fish costume, and Lindsey was excited to wear her beautiful Snow White costume, made by Nana. Elise had a great time, but was not terribly interested in the cake. We made pumpkin cupcakes from a pumpkin from our garden - yum!

On the go

Here are a couple shots of Elise moving around. Also one of both girls. I was almost the mother who bought my girls matching dresses. Yikes. They are coordinating instead.

Almost walking

Taking a step!

Lindsey playing on the bench. This is one of my favorite things about our new family room.

Fun at the beach last weekend.

Chewing on some wood, thinking about pulling all of those books onto the floor.

Charlie's Angels?

Jumping and pounding, with squirt guns

Cute, cute baby

Two photos

Elise standing up, and Lindsey having fun in the sprinkler. Enjoy!

(not) very exciting downstairs update

We installed some cabinets in the laundry room today. They were salvaged from a school, and are metal! The last shot is from the hallway, looking at our world map on the wall. Not too exciting, but since we started this blog to keep track of our house project, there you go.

first tomatoes!

Today we are enjoying a typical Seattle summer day - 64 degrees right now on the way to 83. However, all of the real (103, with no AC anyone?) heat we've had this summer has really done wonders for our tomato crop. We picked the first cherry, grape and yellow pear tomatoes last week, and have had a nice handful for salads most nights. We are waiting for the green zebra, ivory egg, and black prince tomatoes to ripen - perhaps another week or so. The vines are pretty tall - we've had to improvise staking at the top since most of the plants are about twice as tall as our cages. Lindsey picked the first two, and is standing in front of the south window in the bottom photo.