Scott's birthday is at the end of May and it often falls on Memorial Day weekend, which can be awesome because it means having a long weekend to celebrate!
On Friday, the actual day of his birthday, Scott and his parents drove back from Orcas Island just in time for dinner with the girls. I recorded this early in the morning to send to Scott:
On Saturday, we did lots of errands and didn't do much to celebrate.
On Sunday, Rick and Margie were nice enough to watch the girls so that Scott and I could have a date night. YAY! We finally got to try Brambling Cross, which is a new-to-us gastropub in Ballard by one of my favorite Seattle chefs. It was pretty good. We also meandered around a bit aftewards and stopped to get a drink at another new-to-us watering hole. We felt so hip!
Scott, at Percy's.
Today, the sun finally decided to show itself and let Seattle know it's summer. We made the best of the beautiful weather by going out on the boat. It's been a LONG time since we've been out (maybe since last summer??) and the girls enjoyed themselves thoroughly! There was lots of pointing at sea planes, ducks and boats.
No complaints about wearing a life vest!
Fascinated by the wake.
It's not Memorial Day without a BBQ, right?
Sisters!
I spend a lot of time down below, letting the girls play around. This is the view I get to see.
Goodness, it's already 2025! It's been a really long time since we posted! We had a very lazy new year. We flew back from LA on the evening of the 31st so spent the last remaining hours of 2024 cozying up on the couch and then fell asleep before it even hit midnight! On New Years day, we slept in, cleaned up the house and then did a quick hike the next day. All in all, a good start to the year! Nora's new blanket hoodie. Cold and muddy trails. We're not in LA anymore! We hiked the Primrose trail that follows Coal Creek.
We took Nora to her one week check up today and guess what? We have a porker on our hands! She weighed in at a whopping 6 lbs. 5.5 oz. That's 2.5 oz more than her birth weight! They want the baby to be back at birth weight within 2 weeks so she beat that milestone pretty handily. Hooray! So far, she's been better than Evie at eating (she doesn't take nearly as long, although she falls asleep VERY often) but she's not as good as Evie at pooping. Poor thing always seems to have tummy issues - she's very squirmy and fussy when she doesn't burp or poop. The doc doesn't think it's a big problem though since she still has lots of wet diapers, but we'll have to keep a better eye on it now. We'll have another doctor check up (with shots!) next week.
The other weekend, Scott arranged for us to get a private tour of the Salmon hatchery on Orcas Island. It's surprising that we've been going to Orcas for over 10 years now and never noticed this place before! The tour started down by the waters along Eastsound where Mike, the facilities manager, showed us where the Salmon come in from the ocean ever year. There is a fish ladder down there and a little dock that lets them catch the spawning salmon and they can quickly fertilize the eggs. Then we drove up to the main hatchery where he walked us through where the eggs incubate until they are little hatchlings before being moved to larger swimming pools. It was an interesting little tour to learn all about the life of the salmon. This hatchery focuses on Chinook (King) salmon, and out of the 800,000 baby salmon they release back to the water, about 800-900 come back to spawn. The rest are eaten up by whales in the Pacific ocean or caught by commercial fisherman out in the open w...
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