Performance

Here is a funny video, fresh from Portland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn29DvMITu4

Our family  has really been bitten by the biking and swimming bug this summer. Here’s my guy in his new suit.

 

Last Day of School

 

 

Oh my gosh –two  more weeks till school starts again. Here are some pictures from the last day of Kindergarten. Grade 1 and Preschool here we come! Note the “special occasion” shoes!

EGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With much excitement, we found our first egg today! We got the chicks on March 21st and first egg is today, August 15th! It was a lovely brown egg from one of our Buff Orpington hens.

Say “EGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'”

Chicken pictures from earlier this summer…

Marathon Cookies

YUM! 101cookbooks.com marathon-cookies-recipe

Just did some late night baking while listening to Beach House. I love the flavours in these cookies. Can’t wait to try them out on the kids.

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My Handyman

Rich has been doing some interesting stuff to our house lately. His Dad sent this picture of the younger handyman. It is very sweet. Rich’s personal comment was “You can see where I get my intense drive towards safety.”

Why I Ride

Rich calls this "our sports car"...
Bicycle babes

This year, bike riding has a certain magic at our house. Miles got a bike for his third birthday. A couple of months ago, Mina learned how to ride without training wheels. In June, we hit a fun bike safety fair. We ended school with biking to school. We've been biking all over town. But, last weekend Mina got a new bicycle. To our shock, she looks like a big kid on a big kid bicycle now. She is in love with biking. She loves her new bike because she can go faster. She loves the gears. We bike everywhere (pool, library, parks, next on the list = blueberry farm , coffee shop and beach). I love it. There is some great bonding time available on bikes. This is a part of why i ride.

Mina, on the day she came home with her new bike. Happiness.

Mina with her new bike in Seattle for "Bicycle Sunday". This was our second bike-only day of the summer. They are so fun. It was a great place to work on just having hand breaks.

Mamma and Mina stopping in Seward Park with Mt. Rainier.

There really is something magical about riding a bike. The more that i ride my bike, the more i want to ride it. I feel like a kid.

I can't wait for the Tour to start tomorrow! Lance Armstrong's open letter: Why I Ride

350.org

International effort to raise awareness of the need to decrease carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million.

Check it out. 350.org

Special Night

Standing on the boardwalk, post a night of poems, carrying a pot of sunflowers.

Frog hunters

We have a new spring-time hobby, looking for frogs at the park.

buttercups

First time riding bike to school

Here is the first day that M biked to school, with bike commuter Pappa. Miles and i were jogging along…