Spirit week at school

This week was Catholic Schools Week, which St. Mike's celebrates by having funny dress-up days and other fun school spirit activities.
Monday was green and gold day (school colors). Margaret & Caroline were so excited to try the face paint and hair dye they had seen the older kids use last year.

Tuesday was wacky day, and they went all out with the clashing clothes and crazy hair.

Wednesday was Hollywood day. Margaret was the actress Abigail Breslin, who played Kit Kittredge in the most recent American Girl movie. Caroline was a Hollywood glamour girl.

Wednesday evening was the school's first annual Art Walk. There was student art displayed throughout all the classrooms and hallways, and they were giving art lessons in the gym.
This is Margaret's weaving project from her Native American studies.

This is Caroline's Monet-inspired water lillies painting.

Here are the girls making more art in the gym--doing still life oil pastels.

A blog update from Caroline

AUGH! How is she doing that?


Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha, aka Mom & Dad. They really do look like the President, don't they?!

Sun Fun!

Well, from the freezing cold of the Cascade mountains we've moved on to the sunny hot skies of Cancun. Jeff and I enjoyed our first full day here today. We were supposed to arrive yesterday afternoon, but due to a very annoying five hour delay at Sea Tac, we didn't arrive until almost 10 pm, long after the sun had gone down. Jeff went to his conference today, and I checked out the HUGE resort grounds--they just go on and on forever. Tonight we had dinner in lovely restaurant and got serenaded by a mariachi band. Ahhhh, this is the life.

Snow fun!

Well, it seemed like a good idea back in September to schedule a holiday in the snow over Christmas break... Little did we know we'd be leaving a foot of snow behind in Olympia when we headed up to Leavenworth for our annual winter get-a-way. This year's trip included several exciting milestones for Margaret & Caroline--like sledding down the gigantic hills at Leavenworth's Enchantment Park, mastering the tubing track at the Leavenworth Ski Hill, and last-but-not-least learning to ice skate at the rink in Wenatchee. Whew! I'm tired just remembering all the fun we had.




The cabin we stayed in was outside Leavenworth in Plain, and it sat just above the river. It had a nice loft area, which worked well as a playground for the kiddos.


Jameson was entertained for quite a while looking for the "ca-ca" (bird) in the birdhouse, thanks to Uncle Jeff who kept making bird calls from the other side of the birdhouse.



Corrupting the little cousin...


The first rocket is Caroline, and the second is Margaret. Unfortunately they came down BACKWARDS, so I couldn't get a good shot of their faces, but trust me they had HUGE smiles glued on them!