Aaron has been doing Cub Scouts for a while now. Here he's helping start the meeting; and, Dad is doing a guest session on bike safety.
Steve did the 1st annual (indoor) RainMan Triathlon in March. It was run of waves of eight people with start times going for several hours and consisted of a timed 500 yard swim, a timed 8 mile bike ride on a bike trainer, and a run around Greenlake. Steve had the fastest bike split of the day but with a mediocre run ended up 6th overall out of about 150 and 1st of 6 in age group.
We went with a bunch of school families to Silver Mountain in Idaho after finding pretty good deals on lodging and lift tickets. It wasn't quite Jackson Hold or Sun Valley, but it wasn't Snoqualmie Pass either. We weren't sure about the way the mountain is set up--the village is in Kellog, and there's a three mile gondola ride (claimed to be the world's longest) to get up to the actual ski area base. It all seems to work pretty well however--just don't forget a critical piece of gear in your room! There's also a big indoor water park connected with the resort which the kids loved. The hill didn't have much new snow, but what they had was drier than anything we'd been on that year in the Cascades. Overall we had a great few days of skiing and will probably go back. Of course, they got feet of powder there the week after we left.
Aaron and Dad have been taking karate one day a week with a great program that's run through the Western Washington Shotokan Karate Club at the Boy's Club that is fairly close to our neighborhood. Aaron finally gets his yellow belt!
We had more snow in January. This is a view off our back deck at around sunset.
We had quite a bit of snow in Seattle in December, with snow on the ground for a couple of weeks.
We usually do a few shifts down at the GreenLake Elementary XMas tree lot in December, which is a big fundraiser for the PTA. Noah decided to take a little nap.
