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Annual basket photo 2025

Welcome back, friends! It’s Easter basket time!

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2019

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2018

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2013

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2012

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2011

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Hazel’s fourteenth birthday

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Happy 14th birthday, Hazel!

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Certainly enjoy some pie with your one curly candle

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The celebration stretched out across a couple of days

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Brother of the birthday child

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He is good at inventing new ball games

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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?

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Also, Brita paid a visit to the PNW in the days leading up to the birthday! Thank you Brita!

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Marching along

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Waiting for Costco to open

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Windy birthday walk with a Rainier view

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Selfie with a slug

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Saxophonists in the wild!

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Confident hair toss

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Setting off to sail for the first time in 2025. Winds were steady at 10 knots, gusting to 20! She had a ball!!

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Selfie before a swimming lesson

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Start of the lesson

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Mount Rainier wife date

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We ran off without the children to find snow in the mountains

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Gobs of snow!

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Mounds of it!

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The hiking was excellent

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Ambient noise was muffled

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Animal tracks were everywhere

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And how would one even describe this kind of icicle???

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Gotta love Longmire!

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Mid-Feb

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Family selfie at a woodsy Titlow overlook

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Shiny

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Weekend music practice often looks like this (collaborative)

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And cooperative

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Big guy at the dentist

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Annie worked hard to attract this friend to her feeder

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Spooky

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Landry has been taking swimming lessons

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Catching snow

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Goofball

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I came outside to go to work but found that I could not leave!

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The trombone in its case has been nicknamed “Breadstick”

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Reading ALL the dragon books

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Reading some of the dragon books

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Annie visited Biosphere 2 in Tucson

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Kitties’ favorite part of the day

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Supey came to the Y to watch Landry swim!

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Collector

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Snake Lake is frozen

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Solo-ensemble 2025

Hazel participated in the high school solo-ensemble music festival this year!

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She prepared a saxophone solo and was accompanied by a friend on piano

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Here was her excellent sax-playing adjudicator during the mini lesson

Watch the entire performance here: [[Meadowland video]]

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December retrospective

I realized after my holiday post that I’d left out a lot of December. Time to catch up!

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We spent a day on Mount Rainier around the winter solstice

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There was quite a bit of playful posing

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And cooperative car-riding children

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Badminton in the yard in December — so PNW

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December was incredibly musical!

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Hazel had two concerts, and friends variously came to watch

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Plus we brought Landry and two pals to Tuba Christmas Tacoma. So cool!

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So stately

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It’s still hard to make a bed with a cat in it

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Brita and I rang in December in Toronto!

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That’s mighty Lake Ontario back there

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Mid-Jan

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Misty, frozen morning at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge

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Bird enthusiasm

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Landry conquered fifth grade swimming!!! We’re so proud of him

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Holidays 2024

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Christmastime 2024 family selfie! Taken in NH

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Christmas morning

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Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel

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Car hijinks & booster seat phones

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Instrument sculpture

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Testing saxophones in the warehouse’s whisper room

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Turkeys by the dozen in Jamaica Plain

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Camp friends by the dozen as well!

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Big kids playing with little friends

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Hanukkah with Brita’s menorah

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Unseasonably warm at Habitat in Belmont

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Sunset on the Charles River. Photo credit to Laura!

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A visit with the Hartnetts in Dover. Photo credit to Patrick!

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Dreams do come true! Standing ON Silver Lake

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New woods explorer

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Making use of our travel menorah at Pine Point


We visited Grammy and Grampy and their new stone

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Gorgeous, reflective polar wade to start 2025

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Pensive puzzling on the final night of Hanukkah

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Winter walk at The Nature Conservancy property in Madison

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Look who we found at Tin Mountain! Photo credit to Heather

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We borrowed snowshoes from the Tin Mountain collection

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Home sweet home with the lonely kitty babies

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Zoolights opening night

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We rode the carousel on opening night at Zoolights! (Friday)

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Thanks to an invitation by Grandma and Grandpa

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Steadfast cocoa holders and carousel witnesses

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NW Trek family selfie (Saturday)

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On Sunday we installed our Christmas Tree!

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These two played holiday Mad-Libs

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Choo-choo

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Cute as a button (Every day)

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Pumpkin Loaf-in-Chief (Always)