The Keene Family

This year, Haley had a speaking/singing part in our church children's production, Three Little Trees . She practiced the songs for weeks at home and even had a weeknight rehearsal. She was awesome as Tree 1! She sang so clearly and nailed her lines! We came home and took a quick obligatory Easter photo before heading to Grandma and Grandpa Cole's house for Easter dinner. We were joined by Grandpa and Grandma Keene - yay! Guess what else? The deer didn't eat ALL of my tulips this year. This makes me happy. Missing from Easter weekend was Jim, who went with our friend Heath to visit our friend Sean in Hawaii. Rough life. :) They hiked and surfed and ran and sat on the beach and ate yummy steaks and enjoyed sunshine and relaxation away from the stress of daily life for a short two days. 😍

Over spring break I decided to take JT and Haley on a hike. We invited their friends Sawyer and Jozie and made a whole afternoon out of it. We had so much fun! It was five miles of great attitudes and having fun getting dirty. This is the view to the west... And this is the view to the east - Seattle is over there if you look closely. I was so glad Sawyer had hiked this before and remembered to hike a little farther up the hill so we could see the other side and the Seattle skyline.

With warmer days final upon us, we enjoyed our weekend with baseball, time outside with friends, and planting our garden! I trimmed the faltering daffodils down and brought home 32 strawberry starts. We also grounded four tomato starts (three grape, one heirloom). We added some sunflowers in the very back row for good measure! Then Haley and I finished off with our garden box with seeds for blue pole beans, lettuce, and carrots. Then we marked them all with this pretty garden sticks. :) We hope the warmer weather continues! Walter Kelly from Q13 weather is predicting a warmer-than-average summer... we'll see.