Happy Birthday Tim

From our great Thanksgiving visit, I seem to have only pictures of grandchildren.

 This is Cameron laughing at Tim.

 Sydney is the serious one.

Got Chris in the background but not Tim.  The twins loved having Nicole and Nathan around to entertain them. 










Hope you are having an enjoyable Birthday Tim. 

Thanksgiving 2011

We had a quiet but lovely Thanksgiving.

At noon, we took a walk at Carkeek park in the pouring rain. We were happily rewarded for our efforts with the sighting of many chum salmon coming up to spawn in the creek. Their bodies are quite tattered by the time they get the 1/4 mile up from the sound to the spawning area. They look tired and near death (a feeling reenforced by the dead carcasses along the creek banks.) We then came home and the boys threw their soaked clothes in the washer, and had hot chocolate. What is most incredible, is that here in Seattle, we were not alone in our soggy Thanksgiving walk. There were quite a few people out, and even one family playing football in the waterlogged field to the side of the creek.

Ben's idea to have candlelight for dinner, and serving the boys carbonated cider in wine glasses, made our dinner fun and memorable to them. A good thing as neither of them like stuffing(!) or sweet potato, or cranberry sauce, or even turkey that much(!!!!!)

Warm weekend

This is the 4th beautiful fall weekend in a row.  We spent Saturday at the lake playing bridge with Martha and Jim Mitchell and then we were joined by Janice and Madhu for dinner at the Crooked Door in Albion.  It was nearly sixty this morning (Sunday), perfect for an outdoor picnic breakfast at the Madhu's lake house.  Unfortunately, none of us had a camera.  We'll see many of you very soon in Santa Monica, where it looks like it may be swimming weather.

feeding time

Ben was again a great help with the babies last Sunday in Seattle.

Sorry to hear that Seattle was cold and rainy on Sunday. We had a wonderful day at the lake - warm and sunny, allowing us to finish the last little chores for the winter siesta. However today in Rochester was warm but rainy with thunder and lightning and last Friday it was cold and we had several snow squalls. No doubt it will be cold and wet here in the next few weeks and we will be very happy in Santa Monica. Looking forward to seeing (and hearing) the girls - in fact when we listened to Melissa's message on the answering machine it sounded as if Cameron wanted to be on the phone as well.

Cheers to all

Dad/GDad

Weekend Trip to Seattle

We had a nice trip to Seattle on Saturday morning. The kids did great on the plane and enjoyed Sunday morning with Sarah, Ben and Liam. The weather was cold and rainy. We went for a walk on Sunday down to the Alki Beach Starbucks with Ben and got a hot chocolate. Here's a picture of Sydney peering out from her carriage as we began our walk. Both girls were asleep by the time we got back.