Archie McFee

This is a fun store in Ballard - lots of little plastic toys adn various toys like the librarian action figure and the unicorn that spears mime's with its horn... good times. 

Ballard Geocaching

I went geocaching today in Ballard today. Can you find the treasure in this picture? 

Nick's Birthday Geocache findings. I took a very silly looking alien thing, and left this other very silly looking alien thing (which is on my finger in this pic) 

And here is another geocache we found in central Ballard - it was stuck to this structure on the inside with a magnet! 

Game Night at my place

The Fonz cameo.

Cain brought the Mystery Game - Mr.T!! No, we never did play. Ages 6-12. 

Rick and Wendy doing their celebratory dance 

Game Night

Sameer, Evan and Cain creating their Balderdash at Game Night 

Gold Creek Snowshoeing

I went snowshoeing with my hiking group today! It was awesome. It snowed huge snowflakes on us the whole time. Gorgeous! 

There was a LOT of snow!

Here I am!!

Me at Gold Creek Pond. Yes, I am up to my waist in snow. As I tried to get closer to the pond for the pic, my right leg - snowshoe and all - went down all the way to my waist!

So Picturesque!

 

the trail 

Gold Creek Pond 

This is Evan and the alien snowman. Evan was the leader for this trek in the woods.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone. Hope you all had a wonderful celebration. Time to get out your new calendars... and be sure to write JENN is 30 on June 28th! Yup, the big 30 is fast approaching. Well, I thought it would be fun to recap my 2005 year... so here we go:

Started off the new year moving to a really nice house in Wallingford. In Feb, my mom came to visit for a week just after her birthday. We did your usual touristy things, went up the Space Needle, checked out some of the surrounding nature. In April I joined a hiking group and have since been an organizer/leader for many many hikes. Also, Steph came to visit in April! We did some more touristy stuff, like the Underground Tour and the EMP. And I got to see Miss Saigon with some co-workers. In May, my cousin Nicole had a baby girl, Arianna. I got to go to my first opera (which was terribly boring). Went to the Folk Festival and listened to lots of music. AND - went to my first hot spring out here. What an experience that was. In June I ran a 5K supporting breast cancer research. I got to see naked painted bodies riding bikes in the Fremont Solstice parade. School got out and preparation for the big road trip began. In July we began our two month road trip, and my cousin Lisa had her baby girl, Mikaela. Through July and August I saw the country. When we got back to Seattle at the end of August, it was back to work. I decided to start another year with Mercer Island School District. September was kickd off with Bumbershoot. Dean, my uncle, and I decided to join a community concert band and I started playing my clarinet again after 7 or 8 years. I also discovered the show LOST and have since become addicted! October is my favorite month - and I was very excited to have a front yard to decorate with various graveyard items. I hosted a pumpkin carving party and watched many many scary movies. November brought us to Montana for Thanksgiving. In December my concert band had its winter concert and then I got to go home to see my friends and family.

I think it was a good year. That summer was pretty remarkable :) I am excited for the new year and I hope you are all excited as well.

My Family!

Here we all are in Memere and Pepere's living room - with our two newest editions. 23 people and 2 dogs! 5 generations even!

More photos from trip home

Here's a link to photos of my visit home (Steph, Tim, Josh, (drunk Zonk fun), family, 11-year reunion, etc)

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=9gc0q893.3rsdummn&Uy=1hh2wy&Ux=1

and this is a link to even more photos of my family on Xmas Eve:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=9gc0q893.9irfcp3j&Uy=597n0w&Ux=1

Jenn the Xmas Tree

MERRY CHRISTMAS! 

Falling Ice and Snow

Fun with Tim in Boston!! 

Rainier

Isn't my kitty the cutest!? 

Merry Christmas

I got to spend 9 days home! It was awesome to see so many friends and family. I even had the time this trip to spend the night at friends' places! Wicked fun! And - we had a mini 11-year reunion. Saw a few people I really hadn't seen in 11 years! Never woudl have recognized them either! Crazy. Below are a few pics I got before the darn battery died - and studpid me left the charger in Seattle. Argh. So, peeps - send me your pics from my visit!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! And happy new year too!

Mommy

This is my mommy. She is awesome. I love her lots. (And check out the 50 pounds she lost!) 

Visit with Steph

I love Steph tons too! I got to spend over 24 hours with her this trip! Here we are sitting in her living room with the Xmas tree in the background.

My ride to Boston

TIM and JOSH!!! THey came up to NH to get me ad bring to Boston to spend the night drinking PBR and playing "a Zonkeriffic Christmas". Too much fun!

Christmas giraffe

Hmmm, I wonder which present Tim wrapped for me... could it be the one that looks like a giraffe?!