Because Hannah is taking half high school courses and half college classes, she doesn't get a full spring break like the years past.
A few weeks ago she had her time off from the community college, so she'd go to school in the morning at Ike and then come home around 11:30 each day.
So on a couple of those days, we took off on a local walking/hiking adventure.
The first day we walked the Greenway and ended up at the Arboretum.
The weather is warming up a bit and things are starting to bloom.
Taking serious photographs was our goal!
Ha!
The second time out we walked from Naches Heights Winery down into Cowiche Canyon.
A beautiful day and a lot of fun!
Better views, a lot more silliness and amazingly...pictures of me!!
I know that these days of being together like this are numbered.
In a year and a half Hannah will be leaving home and these opportunities won't come so easy.
I'm soaking them up while I can.
I thought I'd try this idea again...just a small bite of our daily/weekly lives.
3/13 - These two are still at it with their Sunday morning trip to Walgreens for the papers. Rain, shine, snow or whatever! Not much can stop them.
3/14 - Monday night we were honored to watch Hannah get inducted into the National Honor Society at Eisenhower.
3/15 - Spring is officially a few days away, but my daffodils always make an early appearance. After a long grey winter the color is so wonderful!
3/16 - With her community college classes over for the quarter, I have someone to hang with in the afternoons for a week or two until the new quarter begins again.
3/17 - We don't do much for St. Patrick's Day, but this year I decided to make some fun food. It was all "okay", except the Colcannon which was AMAZING!! Will definitely eat potatoes this way again!
3/18 - Not sure anyone in this house loves to go on a trip more than Jenelle! For an hour or a day or a week...doesn't matter! She's packed and ready before anyone else!
3/19 - Renee and I took the kids to Great Wolf Lodge for a weekend. Life is so busy for all of us so it was so wonderful to be all together again having fun together.
Where did the time go with these five??
Tomorrow...if we don't get snowed in...is the first day back to school and work after the holidays.
These weeks have been wonderful...full of relaxing and enjoying our little group of five.
After Thanksgiving we started off with some Yakima Christmas activities.
The lighting of the downtown Christmas tree and the Lighted Christmas parade.
These always seem like a good idea to me until I have to actually leave my warm house and go, but Jenelle keeps me honest!
We've been having snow off and on since the winter break started.
One day Hannah and I walked to Johnson's for some photo ops and apples.
Christmas morning came and went, and somehow I managed to catch none of it except snow through my wreath.
It was a wonderful morning.
Relaxed, together and all of us full of gratitude.
There has been no shortage of snow!
Donald built a huge sledding hill in our front yard and while everyone has had a go on it, Jenelle was the die hard sledder in the family!
It's a constant work in progress and Donald's always out there adding more snow and adjusting the turns.
Pounce has a nice warm box to sleep and relax in, but when we are outside, he likes to hang out for a while.
This is Pounce hiding from me and getting ready to...well...pounce!
