Holmes is in a cooking camp this week, where he doesn’t think all the food they make is…good:) This afternoon, we park hopped in the sun and started with a nature walk, to where he befriended a bug and the two bonded (most of) the whole walk. Literally, I was amazed myself. The only reason they parted is because Holmes wondered why his human friend wasn’t playing with him on the walk (it’s no fun to be ignored!)…so, the bug went back into nature and the boys decided to swap nature for a playground.

“Bugs like me, because I’m gentle with them.” - Holmes, who is decidedly not gentle with everything.

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.