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  We took a field trip with K’s parents to the Mt. St. Helens Visitor’s Center just off of I-5 in Washington.  It was great!  The kids had a great time- we watched a short film about the 1980 eruption, then we looked through several exhibits they had and walked through a model of a volcano. Outside of the center […]

  I think I figured out how to make the picture a link so that it can be viewed larger.  Hopefully I did it right, and if you click on the picture you’ll get a separate window to the 800×600 size picture at Imageevent.  It only took me 115 posts or so. E2 has always been a […]

  I was just playing with my new camera… :)  I liked this one, but boy do I have a lot to learn!

   I got a digital SLR!  It is an Olympus E-500 and it’s sooo nice.  I can’t believe how much I’ve had to compensate for shutter lag, slow auto focus, and slow file writing with my C-2100 (I did love that camera though).  I think I’ll be able to get better people pictures with it’s […]

  E2 made a microphone out of Tinkertoys in order to interview everyone on what their favorite patriotic color was: red, white, or blue.  My brother-in-law played along very well, and expounded on the subject quite nicely.

 

  We love this city.  There are so many places you can be standing in the middle of it, surrounded by trees and nature, and not even realize you’re in the middle of a metropolitan area of 2 million people.

  We had an exciting storm here, and I don’t know if it was the barometric pressure or what, but the kids were bouncing off of the walls.  After the rain came down in sheets, it started hailing and the kids wanted to go out in it.  E1 and E2 didn’t stay out- after getting […]

  E4 is finally old enough to ride on my back in the Ergo.  It’s so nice and I can get so much more done.  She looks a bit apathetic about it in the picture because she was getting sleepy, but she really does seem to love it.

  It was a good day.  We went out to lunch at the Old Spaghetti Factory, where for the first time in years (ever?) the wait staff sang to me and I got a free dessert, since E2 decided to share with them that it was my birthday.  I hadn’t thought of telling him not to say […]