The Beginning of the Blog

Well, here it is. Our family blog. We've been procrastinating this step for too long. Finally, we're here with the rest of humanity sharing our memories and entertaining along the way.

I'm new to blogging. I have no blogging skills to speak of and I'm sure it will show. But what I lack in blogging ability, I'll attempt to compensate for in creativity or at least with an abundance of pictures. And so ... without any further ado ... the first set of pictures...

Last weekend for 4th of July we attended the Lake Meridian fireworks show in Kent. Here's a picture of the kids at the lake waiting for the show to begin. After taking this, I handed the camera over to them. They managed to capture forever images of Tyler's chin, Chance's ear, my toes, some completely black pictures of the "fireworks" and several shots of strangers and garbage on the ground. Sigh. In the pictures below, Chance is lighting "snakes" with the kids before the show. We didn't plan to buy any fireworks this year, but somehow on July 4th we developed "the fever" and Chance became The Flame Master. He lit the first real firework, the kids went wild and he was hooked. Last weekend was the first time we have purchased fireworks in our 10 years of marriage.

On Sunday we visited friends in Poulsbo. We thought it would be fun for the kids to catch the ferry instead of driving around. And it was fun ... for them. Not so much for us. A Ferry is just a big boat with plenty of room for kids to run amok. We took the Bainbridge Ferry right into downtown Seattle and it was beautiful. Tyler, however, pointed at the Seattle skyline and said he could see New York City! Just look at them. They are freezing! But would they leave the deck? No way.