In the middle of the power outage, we celebrated Obachan’s birthday.  Fortunately, once you left our part of town there was more power and less wind damage, so the Red Robin near Grandma and Gichan’s house was up and running. Her birthday was Sunday, and we all went out for lunch after church. Don’t ask […]

If you haven’t heard by now, there was a pretty significant windstorm that swept through the north Puget Sound area on Saturday.  Whole trees were blown over, roots and all.  Ane and I ended up driving through some of it and saw the damage and the debris first hand. The storm also knocked the power […]

Saturday was Tad’s family party, and if we were to judge by his smiles, he had a great time! There were lots of LEGO gift cards, which he really wanted, but don’t make for great photo ops.  He did get some other fun things…

One week ago today, Ressis and Oddball welcomed their fourth baby!  Grandma and Gichan were also on hand to welcome Little Cousin, Little Cowgirl, and Little Hawk’s new baby sister!!! For now, we will be calling her Baby Girl Cousin until we can come up with a good blog name for her.  She was 7 […]