Desert vs Riparian

A few highlights from our trip to Arizona for Spring Break and Carrie's wedding:

Morning walk with Grammie

 Lots of cousin time

Fun night with Girls and the Bride-to-be

Inspecting Poppie's kill from the night before

Thinking about throwing rocks into the fountain anyway

Swimming with cousins (because it is April, after all)

Hiking A Mountain with Vanessa

 

Milking goats with cousins in the AM

Happy Day! Carrie got hitched and we all got to be there for the very special occasion.

The other highlight of the month was a really memorable birthday biking and hiking to the highly anticipated Goldmyer Hotsprings

                                     

Getting started

 Getting close

The ~creek~ by the hotsprings

Scared away a few naked people and had the place to ourselves for a couple hours. Totally lived up to our expectations and made my birthday extra special.

Days I want to remember

The day the kids and I hiked Little Si in the sunshine

The day we ran to the Space Needle so we wouldn't miss the sunset (and saw a couple we had passed on Little Si earlier that day- I guess we act like tourists from Wisconsin after almost four years)

The day we brought home the girls

The day Nova led us on a wild chicken chase around the neighborhood for an hour (also the day after we brought her home)

The day we got our first egg!

The day Rune had his first real Little League game

The day we discovered Seabrook.

The day I got to play with my new camera while Dagny played in the sand

The day Rune skim-boarded in the Pacific

The day we joined the hordes for clamming

And turned these:

Into this:

The day we cruised the Seabrook neighborhood

And the beach

These are days I want to remember.

Wherefore art thou?

It is well into March, and no post on February yet. Before you know it this could turn into one of those blogs that goes 16 months with nary a word...

You may be asking yourself at this point, "What did the Hendershotts do last month?"

Two words: Dance Festival

Two more words: Lost camera

But here are some salvaged bits and pieces of what we have been up to:

Fire on the beach with friends

Chickens!! (almost)

This chicken

An afternoon of sunshine spent at Camp Long in pigtails (Taste-testing the dirt. Yup, still good)

A found hike on Cougar Mtn, where Rune was dubbed King Hiker

Breakfast burrito during our staycation for Valentine's Day

Sunny Saturday on Mercer Island

Learning about Persuasive Writing at school

And lots of admiring this view from inside while the wind blows outside

It has been a good Winter, but we are happy Spring is finally here.

January Snow

The theme for January was snow.

We took a long and slow drive to Hurricane Ridge to snowboard in the snow.

We went snowshoeing in the snow.

Tested out LC's new tires in the snow.

Then the snow came to us, so we took out the recycling in the snow.

Went sledding with dear friends in the snow.

Stayed home from school to build snowmen in the snow.

Went for a walk at Lincoln Park in the snow.

Even drove to Canada... in the snow.

And then it melted. So we hiked up Baker Mtn (not to be confused with Mt. Baker) on Lummi Island for a sunset view of the San Juans.

And rang in the Year of the Dragon in Vancouver's Chinatown

Japadog- try it.

In more mundane news, this is the drive to school twice a day.

And Dagny is talking. Her favorite word is Brother- go figure.