Cian at the gym

Here is a short video of Cian at the Gym...

Recent Whale News

Here is some recent Puget Sound whale news:
http://www.theolympian.com/2010/12/06/1464296/biologists-seek-to-tag-orcas.html
Researchers think injured whale seen in Totten Inlet near Olympia will die - Environment - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington
Interestingly Caleb and Jack have personally meet both Brad Hanson of NOAA and John Calambokidis of Cascadia Research featured in these articles at Whale Trail events over this past year.

Emma's 12th Birthday!!!

The day before my birthday my dad and I picked up my friend Cheyenne and went to Starbucks Coffee and got drinks. Chey slept over that night and went to church with us on my birthday. After shopping and arriving home again, Chey and I went dunking for marshmallows: a big bowl of whipped cream with a jumbo marshmallow hidden inside and chocolate sause drizzled on top.
See an image Dad took on his phone here.

Later that evening we all watched "The Spy Next Door", a movie from Netflix with Jackie Chan in it. Mom and I took Chey home at around 8:30 and came back and went to bed.

-Emma

Rilla's Thanksgiving Art

Here is Rilla's Thanksgiving art. It has a turkey, the moon, and the sun! What more could you want for Thanksgiving! She says that it is, "a beautiful turkey" - just like the one our neighbors gave us this year which they raised.

Rilla (7)

Thanksgiving Playlist 2010

Here is a playlist set up on iPod #1 (a 60g fourth generation classic) for our Thanksgiving celebration tomorrow. After all Martha Stewart has a Thanksgiving playlist too! Click on the list below to see the version uploaded to Scribd.

Ostling Birthday Party for October, November, & December Birthdays

I don't turn 12 until December 5th but my mom's side of the family combined 3 months of birthdays together, October, November, & December, this year so I got to have an early birthday party. We held it up at our neighboring cousins, the Ostlings, house. Their dad, my uncle Ridge, works at Microsoft so they had the new Xbox Kinect set up to their flatscreen tv, which in about the size of a wall, and played it a lot of the time we were there. I got some very cool presents this year including an added up amount of $40.00, a 6-pack of Altoids, an electronic dog, a messenger bag, a Coldstone gift card, and a 5 pound bag of mini marshmallows. For desert mom & I shared a big chocolate/peanut butter cake, which was supposed to be doubled the size we made it, but it was already big enough. Much later on in the party we went a show by Tim Noah down in downtown Snohonish with some of the Ostlings and our grandma. We got home late and went straight to bed, having church in the morning we needed to get up early.

-Emma

apple picking

We all piled in to the car on October 30, 11:30 A.M and drove to Rockport. It's a little past Mount Vernon. Once we got there, the owner gave us all hot homemade apple cider, which was delicious. They also had chickens, like us! Once she told us directions and told us to eat as many as we want we set off. I found a lot of trees that had pretty ripe apples.I got a picture of them too. (picture shown obove). -Colin (10)