Recent Happenings

Halloween pumpkin carving.
The kids did the design work, but still needed a lot of help on the actual cutting. (They drew faces on the pumpkins first, which is the doodling you can see.)

Fort Nisqually

In Point Defiance Park there's a reconstruction of the 1850's frontier fort and trading post that originally lay several miles to the south of Tacoma. Despite 17 years of driving by it in the park, Rob had still never been there. Since we had a sunny Sunday afternoon and a discount coupon, we decided to finally check it out.

Playing a pioneer ring-toss game.

An indian dug-out canoe.

Some of the costumed reenactors put August and Rose to work carrying firewood. They loved it, going back for load after load. (Too bad we can't get this kind of enthusiasm for chores around our house.)

Old Stuff

Apparently it's been two months since we've posted anything on here. Where does the time go?!
Well, we do have a partial excuse in that our camera died in Sept. and it took a while to get another. But that still doesn't explain why I didn't post the following photos.


Here's the twins out front with one of the sunflowers they grew from seeds they got in Sunday School. They were very proud of them.

We also went to the big Puyallup Fair one of the days that they were out of school for the teachers' strike. They were very excited to meet Puss in Boots (from the upcoming movie)!




















And they also, for the first time, were brave enough to try out the kiddie rollercoasters. They loved it so much, they road several different ones!