Author: Katie

Heading upstairs to prepare

Friendly audience

Taken by the gym teacher

Grainy photo of Landry on stage 🙂

Thanks for coming, Grands!

Brighter for reading

Slightly more time for it, too

Happy Halloween!

Non-costumed parents

For the six Saturdays of the fall soccer season we’ve started out like this:

Landry gearing up for soccer

Hazey hunkering down with a book

The decorations at Hoot ‘n’ Howl were spectacular!

Something for everyone

Here Landry was harvesting snowberries from beneath the bush. They make a “pop” when squished

Sticks, always a solid choice. And look what the smoke in the air has done to the light! Yucky and pretty

Hazel competed in her first sailing races yesterday!

Airbags are pumped, time to get rigging

This was Hazey’s favorite picture from the morning. Doesn’t she look like a pro?

Out they went — three teammates at their first regatta!

Peek-a-boo! Coming in hot (for lunch)!

Hazel and her coach wolfing down their four bites each. Lunch was about three minutes long 🙂

Hazel’s division (Opti sailors) completed 4 races throughout the day. From shore it’s hard to tell what’s going on, but a parent with binoculars helped me spot Hazel here: See the big, yellow, inflatable triangular buoy on the right side of this picture? Hazel’s boat is the closest of the three to the left of the buoy!

Meanwhile, Supey and Landry, on their own at home, ventured out to Point Defiance

And found themselves some cones!

Hazel at eleven and a half [[video]]

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Family Photo Rejection Game! We have been trying to snap an elusively perfect family portrait. Here are our favorite outcasts… our several runners up.

Reason for rejection: It’s a selfie!

Reason for rejection: Faces obscured by hat and sunglasses!

Reason for rejection: Bad attitude!

Will there ever be a winner? Stay tuned!

Folks, it was a banner day at Mount Rainier! We saw a mountain goat in the wild! Spectacular!

At first we were simply shocked

Then we had to cross behind him to continue hiking… and we did so carefully (but not without more photos)

Do you think they were talking about the mountain goat or video games?

Truly, Hazey with the gift for rocky perches

Bench on the edge of the world

I didn’t get to visit Foss Mountain this summer, but at least I had this autumn-red meadow to admire instead

Farewell for now, Rainier…

Sick day schoolwork catchup

Smoked cheese and black olives each day keep the doctor away (?)