Monday, April 24, 2006  
so, luke's back in town, he was on our side of puget sound friday and saturday, then we all headed to forks sunday. here we are on the ferry.

 
here we are in dad's backyard yesterday. what great weather for luke's return!

 
wee!

 
luke and levi played frisbee with the kids

 
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another shot of sarah's new charger

 
luke, kristen, joe, race, emma, avery, salina and carmen all walked down to tillicum park this morning

 
it was so sunny we had a lot of fun.

 
emma's getting pretty good at the monkey bars

 
today luke, kristen, salina, emma, avery, race, joe and carmen all went to visit dave at work out at dahlgren's. here we are in the saw shop


 
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salina and emma in one of joe dahlgren's shops

 
dave took some of us out into ingrid's fields to feed the cows. they were hiding in the woods so luke chased them out. they were kind of flighty at that point and didn't actually stick around to eat but stampeded off.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006  
well, we woke up too late on easter morning to do any of the local egg hunts-- poor planning mom and dad! so we did our own. the day before lauren and race (and sarah and annie and jen) came to visit and check out our new house. here are some pics, in kind of unsorted order...

 
there's one!

 
coloring eggs is fun!

 
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cousins rule!

 
we went out to ruby's (an old fashioned diner) for lunch

 
here are all four of em in front of sarah's new dodge charger. its an awesome car!

 
you can see the front porch swing is a favorite picture spot!

 
a few days before we played ball out on the street with avery's new mit and ball. fun stuff!

Saturday, April 08, 2006  
emma says "here's our new house!"

 
we're on the porch swing on our front porch. our street is a little loop so only cars that are driving to the 15 houses on the loop come through. so kids are often riding bike or roller blading or whatever out in the street which is just fantastic compared to our last place which was on a through-street. i look forward to weekends and summer nights letting the kids play out there and sitting on the swing reading a book or whatever.

 
home sweet home! and thanks for the new sweaters grandma linda!

 
going upstairs... i didn't get any pictures of the bedrooms. the master bedroom has a big closet and master bath. emma's room is a nice lavender color and avery's is her favorite color yellow. they were painted those colors already, what luck!

 
kitchen

 
this room will be our guest room/office once we unpack and get a bed of some kind in here. come on over!

 
emma and avery and thier NEW COUSIN ISABELLA! who came to see us a few weeks ago. congratulations again missie and josh!

 
here's emma, avery and thier friends sophie and kate selbig who came over last weekend. they just got a new house too, congrats

 
here is our front room with our brand new couch and chair and in the background our dining room with a new table, you can see the box for the other two chairs not yet put together...

 
here's our cool new washer and drier! ok, kind of dorky to put them up here but you know what, they really are cool so, whatever...

 
living room/family room. we are not done "putting this room together" but it will probably stay this way for a few months while we save some more money for what we'd really like. probably paint on of the walls etc

 
here is the kitchen, salina cooking for the selbigs...

 
the other part of the back yard. it is small but in this area there are tradeoffs you gotta make!

 
Some of the back yard