Quick football trip

 Sophie's ready to cheer on the team.

 Lucas is #24 and the coach is...Eric!

A Grape-y Kind of Day

 Start with a sinkful of grapes...

 put some in a jar with sugar and water...

 cook 'em up for a while...

 and you have grape juice.

 Take some more grapes, smash them, then cook.

             Let the juice drain out...

and cook it into jelly.  Be sure to wear an apron.

 Today's jelly and juice, waiting for fun popcorn nights and yummy jelly bread (cut into heart shapes without crusts, of course.)

Wish we could take a photo of the smell...mmmmm.

Seattle Soccer and other fun things

Fun to see Zara's first soccer game...this is at the start of the game.

 Zara is number 36.  Caden took some of these pictures!

 We gave Caden a Lego set for his birthday and Zara bought a set for herself.  Grandpa had fun playing with them.

 Caden wanted me to take a picture of this for Lucas.  He wants you to see the Lego fire truck and parachute guy he made and the shirt he's wearing.

This is the water taxi we took to Alki Island on Sunday to celebrate Caden's birthday. It was a perfect day for it.  Unfortunately my camera batteries died after this, but we had so much fun at the beach.  The kids rode bikes, we all pedaled a surrey, and waded in the salt water.  Notice Zara is reading her Kindle.  So funny...every time she got a little bit ahead of the group she would pull out her Kindle and read until we caught up!  It was a great day!