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Saturday Snapshot – August 26

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 As many of you know, this past Monday was the big eclipse!  Being in Oregon, we had a great view.  We originally had plans to head south to my brother’s house, which was in the path of totality–but we decided to stay put and avoid the traffic.  We were at 98%, so it was still a great experience.

Unfortunately, I don’t have great pictures of it.  My husband tried to get some pictures of the actual eclipse, but none of them turned out.  I was going to try to do a time-lapse video, but the kids were too excited and kept knocking my iPhone tripod over.  So, here it is…the one eclipse picture I have!

Saturday Snapshot – August 5

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 I was really hoping that I’d have some exciting pictures to share this week, but you may have read in earlier posts that we had a bit of an injury in the house.  We’ve also had not only a heatwave, but also terrible air quality (which we can blame on Canada), so we’ve been pretty much homebound all week.So, this is my daughter right after I brought her home from her last day of Girl Scout day camp:

Saturday Snapshot – July 29

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 This was my daughter’s second week in day camp and my son and I did absolutely nothing interesting all week…so here are some pictures from when we went to the Zoo last week.

Saturday Snapshot – July 22

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 This week was the first of 2 day camp weeks for my daughter.  This is the 3rd year that she has attended this week’s camp (it will be the first year for her at the next camp, but the camps are similar–both Girl Scout camps and at the same location).  Wednesday was “crazy hair day,” which my daughter loves (and I much prefer it to pajama day).
This last picture was taken on the last day and it is my son’s favorite shirt. It was project in his kindergarten class and it has the handprints of all his classmates (and it is his favorite color!)

Saturday Snapshot – July 15

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 Here are a few more pictures from the 4th of July, but from earlier in the day.  That morning we took the kids on a little hike on Bainbridge Island.  The hike was in Grand Forest Park and our guidebook indicated a 2 mile trail.  I think we may have not done exactly what it said, but it was still a nice walk.

Saturday Snapshot – July 8

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I’m writing this on July 5th, up at my father-in-law’s house…I thought I’d better get this post ready to go in case things get crazy on Friday (the plan is that we will still be here, but that may change) and I don’t get a post up in time.

Anyway, we had a great 4th up here..the weather cooperated (which is always a big question mark!) and my husband had a good stockpile of explosives to entertain the kids.  Here are a few pics from the day…

Saturday Snapshot – July 1

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This week was Vacation Bible School week for us (my kids go every year and I volunteer), and that has pretty much been our life.  Because of that, I have another set of unrelated and scattered pictures to share this week…

Saturday Snapshot – June 24

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 Well, it seems like summer has finally arrived here!  We’ve had a lot of family stuff going on until now with my Mom’s memorial, so this has been the first week that has felt like a vacation for the kids.  Here are a few pics from the week…

Here is the Summer Solstice Sunset (say THAT 10 times fast!)