Playing games and baking bread...

It's lovely to have the weekend together with nothing to do and nowhere to go. That'll change next week when Sophie's basketball games start.

Played lots of Sorry again this weekend and also decided to try our hand at making bread. Sophie helped with the ingredients and it smelled delicious as it was baking. Tasted really good too. We only made a very small loaf and decided we need a large one for all 4 of us!





Decided to have pizza for dinner and make our own dough.

Creative Time

Kids started back at school today. Last night it was snowing quite hard, and Euan was keeping his fingers crossed for another snow day!

Felt a little quiet in the house, but I was happy to have some 'me' time and burn off some creative energy. Started a decorated clipboard for myself and an accordian tin album of our Manzanita 2008 memories. Hoping to finish them tonight when all the paint has dried. Feels good to get back into the groove again. Even though I've been doing my December album, it's not been the same without some paint. Looking forward to doing something creative every day.

Happy Birthday to me...

Awakened at around 5.30am this morning by a liitle impish face saying "Happy Birthday". Euan came into bed with us for a couple of hours before Sophie came through.

We headed out early to Deception Pass for the day. We arrived and had lunch in the car before bracing ourselves for the cold. It was a lovely surprise when Calum and the kids started singing Happy Birthday and they had a small cake with them. Delicious.

Enjoyed spending a couple of hours on the beach - even though I had to give Calum one of my socks. He put his foot in the water (accidentally) up to his ankle and his foot was rubbing on his shoes!

Saw our first bald eagles of the year too. A couple of them were flying right overhead. I'm taking it as a good omen for 2009!

Euan found a heart shaped stone and gave it to me for my birthday. Definitely a keeper! We kept finding heart shaped stones after that first one of Euan's. Another good omen I think.

Alki Beach

We decided to bundle up and head over to west Seattle today, to Alki. We love spending time there, walking on the logs and finding treasures on the beach. We stayed for a few hours and collected a few shells and stones.

Euan practiced his party-piece during lunch - rolling his bottom lip inside out to sit on his chin! What a guy!

Afterwards we went to Lincoln park to play on the flying fox and check out the beach there too. Luckily we did. The weather perked up and we found a huge round shell - what a find!

The start of a New Year

A pretty wet start to the year. Spent a lot of time today just playing - mostly Sorry, which has become our favorite game since Christmas.

Euan makes some fantastic noises when he's not winning - they really are hilarious to listen to. Spent some time with Sophie on her globe jigsaw, which is coming together really well, and the usual couple of times outside playing basketball. A nice easy start to the year.

Spent a lot of time thinking about my word, and realising that maybe I have 3 or 4 that I want to carry with me instead of only one!