Monday, May 31, 2010

It stopped raining...briefly. And Joli's visit

Well, it stopped raining for a bit today. After pouring about as hard as I've seen it rain here in the west. Amd. luckily, the voices were not speaking to Boo today, so he willingly got his fat but in the RAV to make the trip to the dogpark. The last two attempts this week, he refused. So the first time, Kat, Ben and I went (and Kat mocked his 'cries' the whole way there and back-she has it down). and the second time, no one went. But we all needed to get out of the house and jump in some puddles....


This is clearly torture to her!

This was her outfit yesterday, at least briefly.
Joli & Sara passed through Thursday night, on their way to Alaska. They are driving from Phoenix, took the car ferry from Bellingham to somewhere in AK and expect to be gone 6 weeks and drive 15,000 miles. Yikes.
Forgot to get the pic before Dan left for work.
Rides in the laundry basket are always fun.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

I can send pics from my phone!!!

Well Wendys visit has been very productive. I showed her how to send
pics from her phone to her blog. Then we compared settings in blogger,
as I've never been able to post pics. No luck there. Then we all sat
around with our individual electronics surfing the web, etc. And Wendy
found the answer!! My default email is yahoo and it seems that was
the problem. So if I change my default to google, briefly, I can send
pics!! Lucky you folks.

Friday, May 21, 2010

visits. soccer. baseball. stuff

Sorry it's been a while. No excuses. And we haven't been that busy or had that much excitement.

But we have had a few visitors lately. Debbie was here from New Jersey a few weeks ago and now Wendy is here from Calgary for a few days.
Here's the obligatory group pic on the couch when Ebb was here.
Today, we took Wendy to the Mariners baseball game. She had never been to an MLB game and today they were playing the Toronto Blue Jays, so we were surrounded by Canadians. AND we won! Finally.



And before the game was soccer practice. To which she had to bring her little bag....

A few weeks ago at a restaurant. I still had a tan so it must have been a while ago.....




Poor Dan needs just one or two more laptops to work on simultaneously.....


Tonight, Wendy and Kat made peanut butter cookies. Kat loved the whole process.


Yesterday, there was a very funny ball-pit war! They were whipping them at each other. there's a video of this at the end of the post.


AT the dog park some recent day. When it was sunny....







We love the swings.


When Debbies was in town, we discovered she's a baseball fan, so we took her to a Mariners game.


When I picked her up at Dizzy's last week, she was wearing this.....backwards.


Here's the pic of Kat & Debbie. The group photo on our couch is at the top of this post.


This pic just kills me. We were on our way to art class, way too early in the AM. the shoes were my contribution, as that;s all I could find in the car......





Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Final Hawaii pics

The last of the Hawaii pics.  And some videos (if I can figure our how to add them- I no longer have the filmstrip icon...just one for links and, well, it's not a link!).  Have I mentioned that I hate the new version of blogger?  It's hard to get the text in amongst the pics.  Or maybe I post too many pics......

Anyway, on our last night, we went to get pics of the sunset across the street at the beach.  And it was cloudy....  We got some decent pics anyway.  And here they are in random order.....
Kat spent the week in teh pool-floating about and sometimes swimming.  If I can' I'll attach vidoe of some of that.

Kat 12-6-07

Kat 12-6-07
I assume that she's alive....

11-5-07

11-5-07

12-28-08

12-28-08
I love the look she's giving her foster mom

12-28-07

12-28-07

Kat 10-26-07

Kat 10-26-07
Kat & foster mom

Kat in late December 07

Kat in late December 07

Kat's first christmas with her foster mom

Kat's first christmas with her foster mom
This is just too cute

From Late November

From Late November
I think she's eating a gobstopper

Late November

Late November
awwwwww....