We headed out to the Olympic Peninsula over Memorial Day weekend to see cousins upon cousins! Will and Lucy sure knew how to make us feel welcome!

And it was such a delight!

Molly and Justin are turning their pasture into a pumpkin farm…so we did some vanity soil tilling in support:) They will be planting 4,000 pumpkin seeds, so we’re hopeful for at least one carving pumpkin this coming fall.

Forget fielding when you have a dog like Goose to retrieve the ball!

Lucky us! We knew a guy, who knew a guy who stocked a pond in a park.

No skunks in sight!

Here we are on Woodstove Road, where the younger cousins outnumbered the young cousins (we’re forever young) and us adults lost any sense of authority we thought we had.

Tadpoles! Frogs! Dragonfly larvae! And more!

What a great weekend!

We officially have a third grader and a kindergartener!

Announcing a brand new insect to planet Earth, the Sea Bug! Surprisingly, it lives in rivers:)

Remember them?!? They still exist.

Meryl made her own broom! Backyard branches for the win. She can’t wait to see Lainie this summer for flying lessons…after all, Lainie has mentioned that she knows Madam Hooch, flying instructor for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry:)