I did my rounds checking on the kids and thought I’d just snap a fairly typical scene about an hour after formal bedtime.
Isaac read a LOT, and had come out to tell Kathleen all about the book:

Charlotte was asleep. Often she’s awake with her cat or just thinking, but sometimes she falls asleep quickly. Usually [...]

Posted on October 5th, 2011 by Zach
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Isaac had an assignment to bring in 5 things about himself that fit into a brown paper lunch sack.  Here is what he put in his sack:The book represents his love of reading and his love of space.  The cat food was his idea for a way to symbolize having cats.  If I had left [...]

Posted on September 12th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Saturday last week I got tickets to go to the air show and hydroplane races. I imagine you can still get a good view without tickets, but I wanted to be front and center. Isaac and I took the light rail to Othello, then took a shuttle over to Genesee Park on Lake Washington. We [...]

Posted on August 11th, 2011 by Zach
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Last week was the main week of Seafair here in Seattle. That means parades, hydroplane races, an air show, and visits from the Navy. Isaac and I took advantage, and went on some fun adventures.
On Thursday, Isaac came to work with me. After I got through my morning meetings, we hopped on a bus [...]

Posted on August 11th, 2011 by Zach
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For Isaac’s Student of the week/VIP week we were provided with a list of things we could bring in.  We decided to make two small posters of pictures and bring in a few beloved possessions.  The first one is mostly full of Isaac at different places (Arches, mountain top, Washington DC, Norris Dam, ect) the [...]

Posted on May 17th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Isaac was student of the week last week.  They sent home a poster for us to fill out information about him.  The following are his answers:
my favorites: color:  blue and green place:  a french fry store with a play place [...]

Posted on May 16th, 2011 by Kathleen
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The young men from our ward had the chance to have a presentation from the King County Bomb Squad this evening, and I thought I’d bring Isaac along. It turned out to be a great idea. He was completely riveted.
The officers were very gracious, answering lots of questions. They told stories about some of [...]

Posted on April 28th, 2011 by Zach
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Zach has made some good arguments in favor of switching our online photo storage from Flickr to Picasa.  I have not uploaded any pictures to Flickr since he has made this recommendation and now I’m woefully behind.  I thought I’d share some recent shots here with commentary as I mentally prepare for the switchover.

Posted on February 21st, 2011 by Kathleen
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With the move and all, I haven’t had a chance to sit down and play with the boy as much as I’d like. Remember how I mentioned his favorite part of the Smithsonian was when they had these Snap Circuits kits for him to play with? Well, I got him a set for Christmas, and [...]

Posted on February 16th, 2011 by Zach
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Isaac loves to read.  He enjoys reading books in bed, reading scriptures at night with the family and pretty much any words he sees.  He has started reading billboards and signs everywhere we go.  He’ll read the name of a restaurant or other such place and ask me what it is or say something like [...]

Posted on November 23rd, 2010 by Kathleen
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From Isaac: Isaac was originally going to write a chapter book about Grandpa’s birthday in which he surprised his grandfather by jumping out of the cake.
From Charlotte:
I wanted her to write her name on the back.  She refused to write it and said that if she wrote her name on the back then [...]

Posted on November 19th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Here are some letters the kids wrote to their grandparents.  I had them in an envelope to send, but before I put them in the mailbox, we booked some flights for grandma and decided to just give them to her in person. Isaac was going to write a letter to each grandparent, but then he [...]

Posted on November 15th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Isaac got to ride the school bus for the first time on Thursday. When I had asked the school about riding the bus, they had told me that they only pick kids up at bus stops. With no really close stops and no sidewalks on our street, I decided that he wouldn’t be riding the [...]

Posted on November 14th, 2010 by Kathleen
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On Friday I had another opportunity to go to Isaac’s school. They were having a pajama day and reading campout. The kids were asked to wear their pajamas to school and bring a blanket or sleeping bag and game. I asked Isaac to pick out his favorite pair of pajamas to wear to school. He [...]

Posted on November 14th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Isaac has decided that he wants to design and direct construction when he grows up. He was telling me his ideas as we were driving home the other day. He wanted to build an apartment building with a McDonalds on the bottom. His idea was that the tenants could call for room service and someone [...]

Posted on November 2nd, 2010 by Kathleen
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Thanks to a visit from my mother-in-law, I was able to go help out with Isaac’s Fall Party. It was held the Friday before Halloween, but it was not a Halloween party. I’m not entirely sure why not, but no one in the school dressed up in costumes. We had an orange-themed party (which worked [...]

Posted on October 31st, 2010 by Kathleen
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In our family prayer this morning, Isaac prayed that he would get to sit next to Emma at school. 
Last year I asked him who his friends were at school and he said the kids he played with the most were Emma and Storm.  This year Storm is in another class, but Emma is in [...]

Posted on October 6th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Isaac’s school is currently having a variety of fundraisers (have I ever mentioned how much I hate asking people for money and thus hate fundraisers?)  They were suppose to get as many donations as possible.  Any donation would let them walk and it took $15 worth of donations to get a T-shirt.  I was inspired [...]

Posted on October 1st, 2010 by Kathleen
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My mom came down to Tennessee to help while Zach recovered from his surgery.  She arrived on Friday night and was able to stay with the kids while I picked up Zach from the hospital and then got his perscriptions.  Zach was miserable all week and barely emerged from our room.  He ate almost [...]

Posted on September 11th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Zach tosses most of the children.

Posted on August 31st, 2010 by Kathleen
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