Friends!

 Look at these two beauties!

Such sweet girls!

Building a fence with Papa

Time to build the fence. Wall is fixed, and fence posts sunk. Time to put the boards up.

O really wanted to help. Hammering. Holding nails. Cutting boards.

And then we had West Seattle Natural Energy install some solar panels!

Aquarium visit with Auntie S

 Our favorite place for a family visit! We went back to the aquarium with Aunt S and Uncle G -

We had fun in the touch pools.

And in the dome. Fi loves the aquarium!

This is how the garden grows...

 Fall is coming, the rain is threatening to fall. Kiddos took one last romp before the rain came.

Look at those sunflowers! Fi planted the seeds, and we watched them grow over a couple months.

Uh-oh, here comes the first rain drops....

Patching up the rock wall

 Part of the yard work involved fixing the rock wall.

So much work! He did such a great job.

Hunting for hornets

 Another use for that DUI drysuit...
G found a massive hornet's nest in the side yard. He put his drysuit and dry gloves and netting over his face to keep from getting stung. It was such an amazing get-up that I had to capture it.

Ha!!

Camping trip to Mt Rainier

We drove out to Mt Rainier for a long weekend - and camped at the Ohanapecosh campground. We had the sweetest little camp site with a stream running next to it, the kids were enchanted.

We went and hiked the loop at Paradise, it was gorgeous.

We found frogs and tadpoles...

And beautiful views.

O has a new bestie, his name is Tiger.

And we stopped at the Grove of the Patriarchs.