2012 in review!

The year in review.

Thanksgiving Day 2012!

The kids woke up early. Alton, of course tried to convince daddy that we needed to watch TV before Nikola and mommy came downstairs, but we managed to find other things to do with his Lego vehicles instead. Shaynee and Nan started to chop and prepare the dinner parts. Nikola thought it would be fun …

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Alton’s 5th!

Today was Alton’s 5th birthday extravaganza. This was the first year that he has been counting down the days until his birthday. Alton vacillated between wanting a space-themed party and not. Of course, it ended up being space-themed in the end. The sparkly “moon rocks” (which in reality are probably everything but sparkly) and “meteorites” …

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Season finale!

Very wet week in Seattle (compared to the relative drought that we had during the summer, still nothing compared to much of the rest of the country). Today was the final game of the season for the 2012 Wallingford Blue Meerkats and they played the the Ballard SuperQuick Squirrels. This was the team they played …

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Boxing!

Alton:Mommy, I don’t want to be a boxer.Mommy: That’s fine. You don’t need to be a boxer.Alton: Mommy, I don’t want the woman that I live with to be a boxer, either.

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Random acts!

We did some trimming in the new garden boxes. The sunflowers have gone wild so we had a lot of sunflower clippings that the kids were parading around as their “flags”. Nikola and I ran some errands and she still wanted to carry her flag. Later on, she decided that she wanted to give the …

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¡Gól!

Nikola’s first goal of the season.

Labor!

Labor day weekend at Popo & Gung gung’s Camano Island house.

National Genographic!

We finally submitted our cheek swabs for the Nat Geo Genographic project. It was a neat Christmas gift from Shaynee’s parents, part of a large scale research project to track the migration of genes among the general(?) population.

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Jump!

Nikola did jump rope camp again this year. The girls weren’t as old as the group from last year. She still had a blast. This was their final performance. The video is 18:41 minutes long.

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