5/30/14

Well crap, I can't believe it's been since Easter! So much has passed me by.
I will just try to write about what comes to mind presently. Our lease surprised us by coming to a close sooner than we thought. It was a 10 month not a 12. So we started looking for a place to move to as our rent was going up too much. We looked and looked and looked and looked! There was nothing that would keep Lydia in her school, we do not want to move her again until she goes to OES, and this is just too soon. We also had Ayla as a hindrance and the one car thing. Though Ed was pretty excited to start riding a bike to work. After stressing it all for a couple weeks, we decided yesterday to stay put for one more year, well 10 months. Chris and Matt were here last weekend.
School is almost out and we have plenty of visitors coming this summer! Though we will miss seeing everyone back home.  We already had our first camping trip to the Ape caves near Mt. St. Helens a couple weeks ago, and are getting up in the morning to go to Cape lookout state park on the coast:
http://mountsthelens.com/ape-caves.html
http://alltrails.com/trail/us/oregon/cape-lookout
I know I have more on my phone and after this weekend I will try to get those up.

Ok some pix to catch you up, this is our trip to the Ape caves with Bronek, Lina, and Rayanna:

4/22/14

Been a very lazy poster. Here are some pictures to make up for it. Some are a few weeks old. Easter was really nice, we had an  egg hunt with some friends in the woods we walk to school through. We all pass through them. Afterwards we went for a lunch gathering at Brynn and Adams house. It was wonderfully ethnic, home made and SO tasty! They are some really great folk.
Trillium on the way to school:

 Downtown:

 Field and kid:

 Dog and kid:

 Geese flying by:

Ayla the Olympian:

 Lydia's pizzas:

 Writing a book:

 Easter bunny left turds, Ed ate one:

 Post egg hunt in the woods at our new friends house. We had a fabulous meal of Chechan and Polish foods:

 Magda, Rayanna and that other kid:

 The Europeans:

The kids table:

4/31/14

Everyone is back at school today.
Saturday we went to the Outdoors store to find my rain pants. We hit the place while they were having a huge sale! Which translates to a long checkout, BUT, they were having trivia while we waited. For Lydia's book battles, one of the books she read was a biography of Neil Armstrong. So the question was the date of the moon landing, I remembered and won! A flask. I have no use for it, but I do like winning prizes! Though I blushed at the attention.
Yesterday we went back to the Pittock Mansion to hike with Ayla and Lydia. She, Lydia, had such a blast in the mud. And Ayla had a great time running like a feral beast, scaling steep hillsides like a mountain goat.
Here are a few more pix from break. There are still some more that I can't get to and will post eventually.
We saw two rainbows over the weekend!
This was a pic we took for Uncle Dan:

 She learned to blow bubbles, with gum that is not really bubble blowing friendly!:

 Leaving Trader Joe's:

 Pittock trails:

I found some of Ed's pictures!

Author reading: Lincoln Peirs: Big Nate Series

 Pike Place

 Enjoying our ice cream:

 Outside EMP:

 Science Museum Seattle:

 Walking the dogs, this is right before Ayla ran into Raider:

 Seattle Science Museum:

 Skate exhibit, Portland OMSI, with Brooklyn: