Welcome back, friends! It’s Easter basket time!
Hazel’s fourteenth birthday
Certainly enjoy some pie with your one curly candle
The celebration stretched out across a couple of days
He is good at inventing new ball games
This picture was taken exactly 14 years after Hazel’s due date; who’d have known then that she’d be sailing the Opti “treasure” at the end of a double rainbow on Puget Sound? Also that the upper rainbow would be inverted?
Also, Brita paid a visit to the PNW in the days leading up to the birthday! Thank you Brita!
Marching along
Mount Rainier wife date
Mid-Feb
Family selfie at a woodsy Titlow overlook
Weekend music practice often looks like this (collaborative)
Annie worked hard to attract this friend to her feeder
Landry has been taking swimming lessons
I came outside to go to work but found that I could not leave!
The trombone in its case has been nicknamed “Breadstick”
Reading some of the dragon books
Annie visited Biosphere 2 in Tucson
Kitties’ favorite part of the day
Solo-ensemble 2025
Hazel participated in the high school solo-ensemble music festival this year!
She prepared a saxophone solo and was accompanied by a friend on piano
Here was her excellent sax-playing adjudicator during the mini lesson
Watch the entire performance here: [[Meadowland video]]
December retrospective
I realized after my holiday post that I’d left out a lot of December. Time to catch up!
We spent a day on Mount Rainier around the winter solstice
There was quite a bit of playful posing
And cooperative car-riding children
Badminton in the yard in December — so PNW
December was incredibly musical!
Hazel had two concerts, and friends variously came to watch
Plus we brought Landry and two pals to Tuba Christmas Tacoma. So cool!
It’s still hard to make a bed with a cat in it
Mid-Jan
Holidays 2024
Christmastime 2024 family selfie! Taken in NH
Car hijinks & booster seat phones
Testing saxophones in the warehouse’s whisper room
Turkeys by the dozen in Jamaica Plain
Camp friends by the dozen as well!
Big kids playing with little friends
Unseasonably warm at Habitat in Belmont
Sunset on the Charles River. Photo credit to Laura!
A visit with the Hartnetts in Dover. Photo credit to Patrick!
Dreams do come true! Standing ON Silver Lake
Making use of our travel menorah at Pine Point
We visited Grammy and Grampy and their new stone
Gorgeous, reflective polar wade to start 2025
Pensive puzzling on the final night of Hanukkah
Winter walk at The Nature Conservancy property in Madison
Look who we found at Tin Mountain! Photo credit to Heather