Our rental house is built on top of a rock!

With the volcano, Mount Edgecumbe, out yonder, which hasn’t erupted in over 4,000 years but adds delightfully to our sunset view all the same!

Also enjoyable:)

Letting driftwood drift…again?

Off to camp and school! Cheers to a summer ahead of trying to bike as much as we can.

Meryl’s camp this week was Candyology at the Pacific Science Center…yep, the science of making candy! Pretty sweet week:) With after camp meanderings around Seattle Center too!

We keep finding higher play structures around town and the kids keep climbing higher!

Our neighbors have a strawberry farm and shortcake stand underneath the Space Needle…it’s prime time for summer visits!

We now get to be read to at night these days!

The Volunteer Park playground wading pool is gigantic and so wonderful! Wading pools in Seattle are now open!

Achievement day! All their hard work with at home jobs (part of the curriculum) and attending classes is paying off…and there’s a progression of medals and belts and trophies to go:)

We had a great week on the east coast! Great friends, great family…an all up great time.

Chalk this up as a parenting moment not to repeat, but one we seemingly found worth of capturing for a memory. Afternoon “quiet time” led Holmes’ curiosity to our mosquito bite device, which suction-cups a bite to help reduce the itchiness (it is helpful). That being said, Holmes found himself repeatedly suctioning his cheeks, and here we are:)