Finishing up Pete's Birthday

At Pete's birthday we got a list of supplies to buy for

the climbing wall.  When we went home we made a 

run to Home Depot to get all the stuff on the list and

took it back over the following weekend to celebrate

Brooke's birthday and build the wall.

The kids painted the boards in camo colors so the wall

would blend into the woods instead of sticking out like

a sore thumb.

With a little help.

Nice Job!!

Both sides, of course!

We did stop to make a birthday cake

and getting ready for a new brother

Happy Birthday, Brooke

Then the next weekend we came over to finish

up the wall with holes for the holds

Lots of help on that end

and putting the framework on

wiping the lines off

and the install

putting on the holds

in just the right places

and there you have a 

Climbing Wall

both sides are fun!!

 

Pete Turn's 6

 Amongst all this CoVid stuff we have 

birthday get togethers in lieu of parties, I guess

Pete opted to play Putt Putt Golf for his

birthday activity

The kids did better this year than last year

They were good at waiting for us adults to finish too

Family of four...soon to be five

A raccoon wasn't far from the course

Fun Times!!

An update on how the tent looks on Pete's bed

Brooke had given me some clothes the kids

liked and wanted pillows out of them

They look pretty strange on the couch

Not that Pete doesn't

And of course an update on the baby bump

...due in a couple weeks

Found Fun Pics

 I saw a couple pictures I didn't post of Halloween

so you get them in January

Amy wanted to see a picture of 

Brooke's Baby Bump

back in October

I didn't do very well getting it posted

Sorry!!

But this way you get to see a couple more

baby bumps

Cute ones too!!

Christmas 2020

 I wasn't supposed to have any of the kids this year

but Brooke and Chris decided it would be best

not to travel to San Diego with kids and airplanes

so they came to our house instead.

We started right off making Christmas cookies 

see whose working

and whose eating?

Then into the games

One of the days we decided to go on a hike our near

Kitsap Lake at Ueland Tree Farm Trails

We opted for the 3.5 mile hike to a waterfall

I hope it's bigger than this

Family picture break

BIG culvert

Dickerson Creek Waterfall

There is a beaver dam to the right of Ellie in the 

background

No one wanted to walk through

so I could get a picture

There were a lot of huckleberries still

on the bushes

Some more games came out

Then we decided to make Gingerbread Houses

only using frosted Pop Tarts

Yummy front door

and Santa's landing strip on the roof

and a little snow

Cute...girl and house

even the boy and his house

They did an excellent job!!

Christmas morning before the disaster

And then the projects began

Pete got a truck and motorcycle

Lego set

Ellie started making her bubble bath bombs

Fund things to make

even an archeological dig

and Robots to put together 

We had a great time with the kids.

Missed those California kids tho!

Happy New Year!!!