Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Memorial Day fun

A nice, low key Memorial Day was had where I had an overnighter in Seattle, kids and Dae saw Mission Impossible in the theater, Stacey and Wilson came over to the east side for a day trip and had dinner with us, and we made some falafel and homemade pita which was fun especially to see the pita rise in the oven.  


Cool lightning Sunday night 







Wednesday, May 21, 2025

CK track meet for Olin

It was a fun day (at least as an observer!). Olin participated in the 4x100 relay, 200m and 400m and about died after pushing himself in the 400m to finish in 1:19. His fastest we had timed him was 1:31 in Portland so he was definitely booking it! His relay team finished third!


Ricardo, Marcos, Luca, Olin


Monday, May 19, 2025

Portland

We did a LOT and had a great time. Friday night we visited Didi at his job at Tamale Boy. Saturday we went to Pip’s Donuts, and then spent a huge amount of time at IKEA. Then Ev and I went back out to Nordstrom, Kikiro Japanese store, kitchen Kaboodle and Trader Joe’s. Was so fun. We ordered Dove Vivi pizza for dinner and made salad from a bag. Sunday we went to Whole Foods after Saint Simon breakfast. Was so fun!



Found a wheelchair 

IKEA assembly 



Saint Simon

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Seattle with Selynn and Minah

Met up for the night with old Portland friends Minah and Selynn and had a nice time at the condo!

Olin’s fall soccer photo finally came in 

Pink Door dinner

The new convention center in Seattle is very pretty 



Friday, May 9, 2025

Camp & Crutches

One boy went to camp Lutherhaven for the week (4 nights) and the other went to a track meet Wednesday, suffered an avulsion fracture, and is on crutches!


This pic is so funny to me. He said he had a good time, he liked the length of camp, and he learned a lot. I loved hearing about the foods they ate, sleeping, bathrooms, activities, downtime, the bus ride. 

The avulsion fracture (of pelvis) happens when the muscle pulls too hard on the tendon and takes a small piece of bone with it. Most common in teens who do sudden pulling movements like sprinting. 

Walla walla High trainer helped him out and loaned some
Crutches. Perfect because I can return them when I go back to walla walla for Olin’s
Tennis on Monday!

Hit Iceburg Drive Inn in WW on the way home. Yummy hamburgers and fries. 








Seattle

 

Zoom in in the middle - Christian studying at U-village Starbucks while I got some shopping done and Olin and Dae browsed around. 

Ev was in town for mom’s weekend so she stayed at the condo with us. 

We ended up seeing Mal at U-Village and then we met up with her for breakfast at Portage Bay the next morning. 

Have not gone to DTF in a while!!

Friday, May 2, 2025

Springtime in 509

Well child visit. His BP was a little low (80/64) so they did a longer blood pressure check and told him to make sure he was WELL hydrated. He is 4’9” and 74 lbs

Beautiful art work by Olin for WA state history

Teacher thought so too!

First time he was in the fastest heat! He finished 7th out of 69 😊

Olin and I escaping the heat at a Yakima track meet. Stayed 4.5 hours, hit Miner’s with Henry on the way home 

Bros

This wasn’t that trip, but the boys showed up together at Ursula’s tennis match at hhs with their own lawn chairs. I wasn’t expecting them to come on their own and it was funny and cute especially the lawn chairs. 

 

Memorial Day fun

A nice, low key Memorial Day was had where I had an overnighter in Seattle, kids and Dae saw Mission Impossible in the theater, Stacey and W...