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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Proust

This week was all about spending a lot of time practicing the things we love – baseball for Mr. D, a musical for Miss O, gardening, and putting together IKEA furniture!!

There is something full circle about feeding and watering kids — so they can grow up to feed and water the plants. 🙂

Mr. D hit a baseball into one of our planters. It cracked a hole in the planter – isn’t that crazy? The rest of the pot is fine. And the cat hat to go to her annual vet checkup so she’s looking non-plussed in a box that has also has holes, but these are intentional.

Dunn Lumber with the sign of the week!

“Elegance is not being noticed, it’s about being remembered” – Giorgio Armani

Swinging

Contentment. The cat likes to pretend she’s on the fence to do some forest bathing but I think she’s just up there to keep an eye on the neighbor’s dog.

Scenes from the neighborhood. I was so captivated by the sweetness of the little girl walking slowly with her grown-up that I followed them for a block and a half in order to get a closer shot.

Pictures that make you smile!

“Some roads are so beautiful that you cannot know not whether you travel on the road or the road travels in you!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

We spent a lot of time in the car driving back from SF last weekend. So much so that when Miss O made a waffle, it kind of looked like a wheel.

We had as much fun as possible on our stops along the way back. But it was great to see the sign welcoming us home.

And to see Cooper and Simone.

We washed the car and got back to baseball (Mr. D is the catcher in orange).

I really appreciated the sign of the week after a week of buying gas on the road!

(featured photo is Mount Shasta)

“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.” – A. A. Milne

We went on a road trip from Seattle to San Francisco to see family this week. So, you got to stretch your legs in any way possible, right?

A fun SF art installation on the JFK Promenade

Riding in driverless cars and playing virtual reality games

Ghirardelli Square and birds of paradise

The sign of the week — found at a rest stop in Southern Oregon and Miss O’s best shocked face!

“The more you praise and celebrate life, the more there is to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey

I was so taken by the moon and my sunrise photos this week that I could have done a post of just all the early morning pictures I took. But I’m keeping it to just my favorite – the featured photo that silhouetted the rowers on the lake.

Easter — and Cooper thinks no one can tell he’s got an egg in his mouth.

Backyard fun — but it’s still cold enough to have to warm up our feet.

The apple of my eye — and the cat who thinks we’re all nuts!

A mountain worth stopping for — and Miss O who’s figured out how to be a super fan for her brother’s baseball team and also be comfortable!

Sign of the week!

“i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes…” – e. e. cummings

We were so fortunate to be able to spend last weekend at our favorite beach getaway on Whidbey Island. It was some sorely needed downtime for the end of March.

Cooper on the beach and an adorable puppy we met.

Mr. D’s first little league game of the season. I love the team spirit!

The sign of the week and our neighborhood skeleton using sign language to usher in Spring!

“Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.” – unknown

Opening day — even the ducks are excited about baseball!

Miss O getting ready for a big dance performance she had at Seattle Center. She did great!

Copying another movie theater patron’s method of using a straw to get butter to the bottom of the popcorn bucket. Yum, says Cooper.

Some Spring sassiness from the Cat!

The sign of the week and some silliness to go along with it!

“Success is never achieved by the size of our brain, but it is always achieved by the quality of our thoughts.” – unknown

This week it’s all brains and bodies — with a lot of curiosity and fun thrown in!

Blowing minds and bubbles at the Pacific Science Center

Miss O is growing so fast it seems like she’s all legs and feet these days!

Making leprechaun traps. And Cooper pointing out where thinks the neighborhood leprechauns are hiding.

This week a lot of rain fell. It made for some muddy (but still fun) baseball!

“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.” – Margaret Atwood

I prepared this week’s photos with a Spring theme in honor of Spring forward.

Flowers and blossoms

Baseball season and flowers, the Lego version

And then this happened on Friday in Seattle. It didn’t stick to the streets and school wasn’t canceled, prompting ten-year-old Miss O to quip that when you pray to God for snow, you need to be specific.

When the cat got a few flakes on her, Mr. D said she was a sno-cat. Which I thought was punny enough to go with the sign of the week.

“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love it what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

You know when you get a new tool or toy and then all of a sudden, you want to use it to fix everything? Well, this week in pictures is thanks to the endoscope Mr. D got. It’s a camera on the end of a long rod with a screen that displays what it sees. Here are our adventures looking through that lens. Into birdhouses, under the water…

And in our heating vents (yuck!) Also in Miss O’s mouth to check out the status of her teeth after some oral surgery last week.

Mr. D helped write to Miss O’s Tooth Fairy after she had three teeth removed. Trying to do our best to live by the sign of the week.