Six In One

Not keeping up on keeping up the blog!  Here are several pictures to represent what we've been enjoying in the last six months since the last post, and only a smattering, at that.  Basically it's been weekends of day trips to all the parks we love visiting.  We also took a long trip to New Mexico for a family reunion.  Desmond loves going to places where there is a lot of water...marinas, lakes, beaches, rivers, and even puddles.

Sierra Blanca Mountain Range near Ruidoso, NM

Boston Harbor Marina, Olympia, WA

Millersylvania State Park, WA

Millersylvania State Park, WA

Boston Harbor Marina, Olympia WA

Twanoh State Park, Hood Canal, WA

Tumwater, WA

Woodland, WA near the Lewis River headwaters

Bainbridge Island, WA

Woodland, WA tulip farm

Boston Harbor Marina, Olympia WA

Long Beach, WA

Long Beach, WA

Waiting for DASH downtown bus, Olympia

On the bus first, second or maybe third trip around?

Percival Landing, Olympia, WA

Percival Landing, Olympia, WA

Black Lake, Olympia, WA

Westport Marina, Grays Harbor, WA

Burfoot Park, Olympia, WA

Boston Harbor Marina, watching Orcas

Merry Mishmash 2014

Our Desmond turned 2 a couple of months before Christmas, and although it was his third Christmas, a lot of the quiet traditions we engaged in were wonder-filled firsts for him: 

  

drumming pomegranate arils from their shells with a spoon,

 filling and frying up Korean hoddeok,

hunting for and cutting down a just-right-for-us Christmas tree,

(You sure know how to find those perfect rocks, Desmond, but we're actually looking for a tree this time.)

embracing the hauntingly lonesome glow of harbor lights on the silv'ry sea,

overcoming Christmas Cracker anxiety, (because this was neither actually a first for him nor was it a necessarily quiet activity,)

and determining whether the obligatory marzipan pig is a darling little toy or something as exquisitely toothy and edible as it looks.