rachel's continued ramblings

week 23 in pictures

okay, this week was kind of crazy. lots of different stuff going on.

sunday: I have this awesome panoramic shot that dave took at the top of mt. si. I printed this picture 12 inches wide, so it will span the entire bottom row in the book.

which is okay because I don’t have a picture for monday.

tuesday: micah, playing w/ trains at barnes and noble… this will go small in one of the center slots.

also tuesday: shane, competing in the district-wide junior olympics track meet. he took another 1st in the 50 yard dash and 2nd in the relay. the weather was extremely cold, windy, rainy, and generally unpleasant.

micah and layla (in the nerd glasses) had fun with the umbrella.

wednesday: last band concert of the year! it’s hard to see shane, but if you look for the tuba in the back row, and see a lot of shiny brass next to it, that’s shane and his french horn.

thursday: the 5th and 6th grade glee club that shane is a part of had a performance at a local retirement home. it was a divide and conquer night. dave took shane there, and I took micah and layla to the school roller skating night. (a couple of instagram shots of that.)

friday: a night at home! what a concept. friday night pizza night. for some reason, the kids were attempting to balance books on their heads and wanted dave to try it. so he did and then layla challenged him to keep the books on his head all the way through dinner! (he took them off after a few minutes.)

saturday: layla and micah were having fun with the animal masks… actually, with inventing new hybrid-animals to be by wearing multiple masks at the same time. layla won when she put them all on at once.

and the instagrams…

book shots:

and that’s it!

mt. si!

on sunday, I FINALLY did something I’ve been wanting to do for (literally) decades. yes, with an S, decades.

mt. si is one of the foot hill mountains of the cascade range. the trail to the top is 4 miles. we ditched micah, knowing he would not be able to do it all on his own, but the rest of us went. layla was very excited. of course, she burned out pretty quick and required a lot of encouragement to finish out.

starting out, we had to find someplace to park. the lot by the trailhead was full, and required one of those discovery passes anyway… and there were no parking signs all up and down the road. we finally found one stretch that had two signs on either end of it saying no parking west of here and no parking east of here. I even pulled up the compass on my phone to make sure we were facing the direction we thought we were. these pictures were taken just in case we got towed! (we didn’t.)

snack break. lovely picture of all of us munching on some jerky.

view from the top. even though it was cloudy, the view was very impressive.

even though layla was SO tired and couldn’t walk any further… the second she got to the top and saw the pile of rocks you had to climb to get all the way up, she was climbing up like crazy! we stopped up there and had a snack and enjoyed the view before huffing it back down.

we had a late lunch/early dinner when we were done and then had a celebratory ice cream cone before heading home.

“rumbling” farms

on saturday, layla went to a birthday party at remlinger farms. she loved it. had been looking forward to it for weeks, etc. etc… it did not disappoint.

week 22 in pictures

sunday: here in washington, the kids and I spent the evening at susie and kevin’s and ended the night with a bonfire next door, built by shane and wyatt. the grand finale was burning their christmas tree from last year. they were pretty excited.

also sunday: meanwhile, in california, dave and micah were at a party across the street from his parents’ where micah played beer pong for the first time…

monday: dave and nolan got to take in a giants game.

memorial day flyover.

tuesday: I know all the grandmothers are going to have heart attacks over this one, but let me reassure you that he was really going quite slowly AND the mower blades were NOT going. and they were having SO much fun!