Halloween 2021

Here's the kids' costumes this season. Jillian is Hermione from Harry Potter, Bridget is Sarah Sanderson (a witch from Hocus Pocus), and Tor is reusing his dinosaur outfit from last year.

Basketball and Cupcakes

The kids stayed here while Rick and Heather celebrated their anniversary, and there was a lot of basketball since the weather was sunny. Bridget got creative cleaning up the cedar debris. She skated around on her rip-stick and swept at the same time, very efficient!  

Meanwhile with basketball coming they spent a lot of time on very competitive games. Jillian did do a lot of volleyball practice too, with club coming up. Friday night they didn't come in until way after dark!

Then there were the Halloween cupcakes to make and decorate. They spent a lot of time being creative on their designs. I think every cupcake was different.

Meanwhile Tor was occupied building pyramids with the extra cupcake papers. This one took him awhile.

Yummy cupcakes!

 

Bridget's End of Soccer Season

Bridget played her final soccer game of the season today. She really enjoyed playing with her teammates, regardless of the game scores. Her team celebrated the end of season at Pie@trio's. She got her soccer ball signed by her teammates.

Her coach awarded her the "Best Midfielder Award".

Tor's End of Soccer Season

Tor had his last soccer game of the season today on a sunny, warm day. His team won, and Tor scored twice, while enduring some very rough fouls. The team celebrated with a backyard BBQ, where the coach had some very nice things to say about Tor, mentioning his high skill level and dribbling abilities.

Here's a pic of the team after their game last week.

15 Years of Bliss

Rick and Heather celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary this fall by returning to where they celebrated their 1st anniversary: the Bavarian village at Leavenworth. This time, we stayed at the Bavarian Lodge just across from the city center, enjoying a very comfortable room and hours of old home videos for nostalgia.

The weather was clear and sunny, allowing us to spend all day Friday browsing through the shops. We especially enjoyed the Cheesemonger shop, the Bavarian Bakery, and of course, Kris Kringle, where Heather picked up another Mueller Pyramid decoration for Christmas. Our evening was spent at Mozart's Steakhouse for a delicious (and expensive) dinner.

Book Character Dress-up

It was Spirit Week at Olympic Elementary, and Friday was dress-up as your favorite book character. Bridget chose Katniss from the Hunger Games series (which she just finished), and Tor chose Henry Hecklebeck from books of the same name.

This is Bridget. I have a note to make about Dads bad editorship. I was Tris, from the Divergent series. Although I did recently finish the hunger games, I was not Katniss. My friend Alicia was Katniss. Also, I wonder if anyone ever noted that, above, I LOOK NOTHING LIKE KATNISS AT ALL!!! 

Pumpkin Carving Party

Heather and the kids went to Hal and Grandma Cindy's house to celebrate Lindsey's birthday, and to carve their pumpkins.

They all came up with their own designs, and the girls did all their own carving. Tor got a little help on some details.