You might think these look like a couple ordinary buttons, a bead, and a plastic gemstone.  You'd be wrong though.  I was told to take special care of these items and to only use them when I needed them most.  Then the secret was revealed to me.  They are the essence of harmony, secret of happiness, magic of friendship and one other thing that I forgot because it took me so long to blog this.  Sorry kids, your awesome imaginations won't be documented this time.  I'll try harder in the future.

Getting ready for Colton's Wild West party.

 

Padilla Bay field trip with their school

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally a little snow at our house

We got one good snow this year in January.  It stuck around Bow for about 3 days and we made the most of it!

Our neighbor Steve even joined the fun and brought out the big toys!

Cosmos and Wilson

Wilson chasing Ryker

Snowball fight with Steve and Seth

Wilson!  Quit taking my snowballs!

Puppies are all the same in snow.  This is exactly what Cosmos used to do.

The only other young kid on the lane, Memphis headed out to join the fun.

 

I tried to freeze colored water in balloons, but it wasn't cold enough to actually freeze the water so we popped them and threw them instead to color the snow.

Yay for snow!

 

January happenings

Seth rounded up a kick ass crew to take the boat from Bellingham to Blaine to be hauled out for some work.  Here is the first mate!

Take a good look here people!  This may be the only photo in existence of Seth without facial hair since high school!

First Mate keeping a good look out.

Not so sure about the relief Skipper.....

 

 We decided to stay overnight since the kids love sleeping on the boat and it was pretty stormy.  We wanted to be there in case any of the lines needed to be loosened or tightened since the boat was blowing around pretty good.  We had to wake them up and carry them through the rain and the wind about midnight because I was feeling awful and was worried that I was going to need to go to the emergency room.  I didn't want Seth to have to carry us all off the boat so we decided to go before I got worse.  I made it through the night and went to the doctor the next day thinking maybe I had my first UTI (self diagnosed on the internet...haha).  Nope, he said kidney stone.  What?  Whatever!   Why would I have a kidney stone!?  He was right, the next day, there it was.  Pretty weird little phenomenon.....peeing out a rock....

Kya has been wanting her own thing pretty badly and we've been looking, but there isn't a whole lot out there for 3 year olds that Ryker hasn't already done.  We found it though finally and she started dance class.

It's a dance combo that includes tap, ballet, and tumbling.  She's pretty into the tumbling.

Ryker participated in the Anacortes Parks basketball program again this year. He was happy to see part of his SJM posse there too.