Port Angeles Fun

The Mayor got to head over to the Olympic Peninsula for a couple days for work. Here are Seimi and Eejee trying out the super comfortable massage seats in the rental work truck.

The Mayor got to camp at a friend's cabin near Port Angeles for two nights.

A nice little day hike nearby.

Miscellanei

Here's an ingenious shelter that Seimi and Eejee built. The Mayor had to gently tell the boys to get out and take this down before someone dropped a small boulder on their own head.

Seimi made an Egyptian beard out of K-Nex.

Grammy strikes again! There was a flag that was snuck into the yard early Saturday morning.

For the uninitated, this is a dragon (obviously), and Doggy Lee (of Seimi's blanket fame).

Eejee found a traffic cone while exploring the woods in a local park.

"Trafficky" has been successfully brought home and now lives under Eejee's treehouse.

Happy Ninth Birthday, Seimi!

Yesterday we spent the day celebrating Seimi's birthday. We had lunch at Skål, a great Viking beer hall in Ballard.

Seimi with the beer hall's resident Mjolnir

Our birthday Viking opening presents

Seimi posing with a Viking helmet the staff brought over for him to try on.

Seimi with a battle axe door handle in the bathroom.

Feast time

Playing one of his new board games, Daldosa, which is a Viking ship game

Boookie enjoying a ginger beer

Ela and the Hobbit Wife

Happy Birthday to our Seimi!

Spring Sprang Photos

Here are some spring photos that didn't make it onto the blog.

Constructive Teen

Boookie helped the Mayor construct racks and shelves for the garden shed.

That's some top-notch shed organization!

Treehouse Staging

Ela has been practicing her artistic skills with decorating her treehouse for summer.

Well, Mow Me Over!

We welcomed the last day of formal school by getting a new electric lawnmower. The hobbitlings wasted no time weaponizing the packaging.

Summer Thunder

Basement Progress

We've made some substantial improvements to the basement over the past couple months. Here is the downstairs bathroom before we got restarted on drywall mudding.

And here is the downstairs room formerly known as Spare Oom, prior to drywall mudding.

Here's the finished downstairs bathroom

And here's the finished room formerly known as Spare Oom. Its new name is The Conservabrary, and it shall henceforth be the domain of the Hobbit Wife.