What-What?! Week of April 29th

Since the weather was nice, we headed out to Deering Wild Flower Acres last weekend and enjoyed a nice hike.  This park is out in country in Marysville, and was totally empty.

Not too many pictures from the trip; spent most of the time just enjoying the sunshine.  We hiked down by the pond and saw a bunch of ducks, and also saw a deer on the trail as well (!!!).

There were tons of trillium blooming all over the place.

 

Walking the trail

What-What?! Week of April 22nd

Whelp, I complained enough; it's sunny.

...So we stayed inside and played D&D with the kids:

 

 I love the look of shock on Corwin's face in this one.  This is just after we found the room with the necromancer.

My character -- Mimi, the wizard.  I spent more time using my staff to hit things than I did casting spells.

 

This adventure actually had a puzzle -- a door with five levers which had to be put in the correct combination.  Eventually we figured out that it spelled (in lever code) the word Hanan, the family name of the crypt we were skulking around in.  What's really funny is that after we got through the door to where the necromancer was and apprehended the fellow, Osric specifically asked the necromancer how the door became locked after he had gone through it.  Really liked that he thought of the real world consequences of these things -- we came to the conclusion that the door resets after you close it.

 

Killin' monsters

What-What?! Week of April 15th

Life has been too busy lately.  The worst part is that it just keeps raining...  Friggen' Washington weather. :[

The husband did make something new this week; Mango Chicken with Coconut Rice.  Due to all the dangity rain, the chicken was not grilled, but otherwise this was delicious.  Ozzy actually liked the coconut rice, which is pretty unusual for a kid that doesn't like rice.  This is the first time that the kids have had fresh mango, and both Saffron and Osric liked it -- Corwin wasn't as enthusiastic, though he ate it anyway.

Amazon Prime has the 80s Robin of Sherwood TV show, so we've started watching that.  The nostalgia is heavy -- I remember loving this show as a kid.  I named one of my stuffed animals Sherwood (I think it was a stuffed raccoon?).  One of the most hilarious things is Micheal Praed's hair:

It is long hair, for sure, but still a very 80s cut.  Everyone else's hair is relatively innocuous, but Robin's just makes me laugh.

What-What?! Week of April 1st

Happy Easter everyone!

Also, happy April Fools everyone!  I ain't got no tricks, though.

This week was also the husband's birthday of course. <3  I did not make him a cake this year, but we had dessert while at Red Robin for his birthday dinner.

He got a bunch of good stuff...

 

Like Thor: Ragnarok, which the kids are just as excited to watch as he is.

 

And the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 soundtrack.  Both seen here, and also smelled here.

 

This is a special curved woodcarving knife I got for him -- the reviews on this all talked about how sharp it was, and people had posted pictures of their messed up hands after they'd cut themselves(!!!).  So I also got him a finger guard, which doesn't fit on hand because his fingers are big...  I guess he'll just have to be careful.

 

And I got him some books too <3

 

Kids Easter baskets -- mostly candy this year, but they also got squirt guns, a teeny genie, and a My Little Pony.

Yesterday, I had the kids to myself for most of the day, so we hit up the store and bought some perler beads.  They had a really good time making stuff -- the above are Corwin's creations -- a demon with a bow, and a tank.

The two on the left here are Osric's -- a heart and a space ship.  Mine are on the right -- a circle design and a rabbit.

These are Saffron's --  a star and a circle.  You can see on these that the melty-ness varies somewhat per piece -- apparently my iron is a bit dodgy and I wasn't moving it in circles enough.  Oh well... we had a good time anyway.