More photos from Rosemary's birthday party.

We harvested early stuff from the garden: lovage straws, radishes and greens for salad

They're completed engrossed in the new dragon book.

Rosemary putting to use the geology kit and gardening gloves she got for her birthday

Ava attended a lakeside birthday party.

They actually were having fun

Mommy hiked with a friend on Kesuge Ridge on Saturday, stayed in a cute cabin Friday night.

Lots of spruce trees killed by spruce beetles

 We hiked/ran Little Coal Creek to Ermine Hill (down via Giardia Creek)

Getting up to the Ridge

Lots of super alpine cool wildflowers

The big mountain is Denali

Ava explaining why chocolate lilies are stinky on a wildflower hike

We had a birthday party for Rosemary

Rosemary received a mermaid skirt for her birthday. Ava took it upon herself to re-purpose Mommy's headband as a tank top.

Bubble sword, tarantula stuffie

Creek time

The dog wants us to throw the big stick he found

The girls started soccer, with friends

Learning how the piano works with their wonderful teacher

Hike up to the tram at Alyeska with friends

Waiting for the tram to come pick us up and take us down

Favorite flowers at Alyeska (shooting starts for Rosemary; blue poppies for Ava)

Crazy ice cream afterward

Neighbor kids

 Playing Harry Potter. Rosemary is the owl.

A lot going on here.

Hanging out in the chicken's new space in the back yard.

Selfie.

Lost a tooth.

Pleased with piggyback.

Baby moose adorably eating stuff they should not. This photo through the window because going outside with a mama moose is a bad idea.

This photo of the moose family (mama and twins in the garden on the other side of the driveway) is from our neighbor across the street.

Hanging out at the local ski area

Dandelion fluff