FAMILY PORTRAITS:   The last couple of days Annabelle has started drawing cartoon-ish humans (instead of say ponies and penguins she so...

PICKIN' AND GRINNING: I try to remember to have the kids practice guitar every day. I think I'm successful about 70 percent of th...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech SMILE FOR THE CAMERA:   Today, NASA released a mosaic they created to commemorate their "Wave at Saturn...

Altered (by me) moon image from  MrMac04 via Morguefile BLUE MOON:  The kids often start their days by reading news headlines on the ...

EAST SIDE: Saturday we took a field trip across Lake Washington to Redmond, Bellevue and Sammamish, all suburbs east of Seattle. The draw...

ALIEN AUTOPSY: A couple of weeks ago Christian and the kids scored a brand new Roswell Alien model   kit at a garage sale for just $5. (HU...

O WHAT A NIGHT:   Wednesday afternoon and evening brought a musical adventure for us - heading down to Auburn, Wa., to the White River Amp...