Posted by: samuelfamily | November 4, 2009

The low iodine diet is over!

One very happy patient eating Pizza Hut:

DSC04540

Posted by: samuelfamily | November 2, 2009

The Adventures of Flat Stanley

You may recall reading the story of Flat Stanley as a kid, the one about Stanley, flattened by a bulletin board, who is able to mail himself places and have adventures. I have received 2 Flat Stanlies in the mail in the past year as a part of school projects (living in Seattle when a lot of your friends and family live in the Midwest will cause this, as will being a Children’s Librarian!). I had a half day of work recently and spent the afternoon taking pictures of Stanley around Seattle landmarks before mailing him back to cousin Lauren in St. Louis. Here is what we did:

Came to work with me in Chinatown:

chinatown

Saw the Space Needle:

spaceneedle

Took a Monorail ride to downtown:

monorail

Visited Pike Place Market:

market

We stopped for a cup of coffee:

marketcoffee

Bought some fish from the famous Fish Throwers at the Market:

fishthrower

And we ended our big day with a relaxing trip to the Pacific Ocean:

ocean

Posted by: samuelfamily | October 31, 2009

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

HappyHalloween09
GoobersHalloween09-3GoobersHalloween09-1
GoobersHalloween09-2
Posted by: samuelfamily | September 16, 2009

We are home!

In case you haven’t heard yet, we are home safe and sound from the hospital, minus one thyroid! Andy is doing much better now that he is home and well on his way to recovery! Let the hovering and spoiling of the patient begin!!!!

Posted by: samuelfamily | September 8, 2009

A ramble

Since we use wordpress as our blog host, I go through their homepage to login, and currently their homepage says “Freshly Pressed”, which makes me smile every single time. It reminds me of vacation mornings, with freshly pressed orange juice and french press coffee. I like thinking about vacations as everyone is frantic over back to school, sucky economy, and swine flu. Sigh. Vacation.

Posted by: samuelfamily | September 1, 2009

Zip Lining in Canada

Here are our photos and videos from zip lining while in Whistler, B.C. We had a total blast!

Getting geared up.

Zip

Zip1

Working it.

Zip2

The 6 year old girl in our group who went upside down almost the entire time. She was very brave and made all of us adults feel a little ashamed for being so nervous! (they are doing a practice run)

Zip3

Looking down over the zip line course.

Zip4

We felt like we were in the Ewok Village up in the trees!

Zip5

Zip6

The glacial river we zipped over.

Zip7

About to go for the first time. I love how gigantic my eyes are! It makes me crack up every time.

Zip8

The surrounding scenery.

Zip9

The professional shots that we paid too much for. But seriously, how often are you going to get pictures like this?

Years of ballet lessons for this moment.

Ziptrek Image 6-04

Ziptrek Image 6-05

Ziptrek Image 6-06

I was so proud of Andy! He zipped upside down most of the way!

Ziptrek Image 9-03

Ziptrek Image 9-04

We also took some videos. Click here to see Treasure zip lining away from Andy (note my slightly terrified look at Andy right before I go). Click here to see Andy zip lining towards Treasure (I suck and videotaped the wrong direction, so you have to tilt your head. Sorry.). The videos make take awhile to load.

Posted by: samuelfamily | September 1, 2009

What I did during my week of unemployment

During The Seattle Public Library’s budget cutting furlough, I participated in the union rally at the Central Library (was briefly on the news and shook the mayor’s hand!). I also led a volunteer group to assist in sorting donated materials for the Friends of the Library book sale. If you are interested, here is a link to pictures of everyone working hard, including our City Librarian Susan Hildreth!

Volunteer Day Pictures

Posted by: samuelfamily | August 29, 2009

Whistler Trip

Our summer trip to Whistler, British Columbia, site of the 2010 Winter Olympics. This is where the “Celebration Center” will be. We also saw the sliding center, where the luge and bobsled competitions will take place. So don’t watch the Olympics with us, because we will constantly be yelling things like “Saw that!” “Been there!”

Whistler

Gondola ride up to the top of Whistler mountain for an outdoor dinner.

Whistler1

Whistler2

Whistler3

Alas, there is no picture proof, but right around this area, we saw a black bear lumbering along.

Whistler4

At the top of the mountain.

Whistler5

Whistler6

 An inukshuk at the top of the mountain, which you should expect to see a lot during the Olympics. We plan on playing a game called “Spot the Inukshuk!”

Whistler7

Andy set the timer to try to get a shot with a glacier in the background. He didn’t make it, and the picture makes me laugh.

Whistler8

There we go!

Whistler9

Posted by: samuelfamily | August 29, 2009

Duck Dodge Regatta

Every Tuesday in the summer, I drive home from work with a lovely view of Lake Union and the colorful sail boats celebrating after another successful Duck Dodge Regatta. This summer I actually took the day off in order to watch the race and have a picnic with Andy at Gas Works Park.

Normal Andy in front of Lake Union.

AndyBoats

Yacht-owning, collar-popped Andy.

AndyYacht

Picnic time with The Colonel!
Picnic1

Picnic2

Toast!

Toast

The race is on.

Race1

Race2

Race3

Race4

The barge that totally interrupted the race.

Race5

The near-collision with a pirate ship!

Race6

End of the night.

Picnic3

Posted by: samuelfamily | August 28, 2009

Summer Happenings

An accumulation of summer events.

Homemade plum thyme iced tea:

Tea

Wrapping up the library’s summer reading program with staff favorite Masao:

SRP

Only in Seattle… half a house.

HalfHouse

Dinner out in the Madrona neighborhood with 3 inspiring and lovely friends. They are a wonderfully bad influence on me, for which I am deeply grateful.

 Vickie

They wisely refused to be photographed once we had launched seriously into the wine and cocktails, so I opted for an appetizer photo.

App

Andy and I made our annual summer trek to the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. I love how relaxed the gorillas look, especially the one with his tongue hanging out:

Zoo1

Zoo2

Older Posts »

Categories