Homeschool class about pollination at the Alaska Botanical Garden. They were setting up for their December lights walk, including this cool train set in the green house. We visited the light event later. 

Thanksgiving Day mandatory outdoor family fun, their favorite spot at a local trailhead. Rosemary tried on some snowshoes before they played in their usual hemlock grove. A beautiful snowy day.

Octopus hat from Ima.

Felting Christmas ornaments for gifts. 

First day of Jr. Nordic. Ava had fun. Both kids matriculated to the next level of skiing groups (Ava is now a Hawk, the fastest group of skiers, and Rosemary moved up from Polar Cubs to Otters, where she will begin skate skiing). 

Botanical Garden light event with friends. 

Homeschool math. She loves assembling and using the multiplication table blocks.

In the woods by the school on the way to pick up Ava. She ran back to tell me that she had just seen a hare. "What color?" I asked. "White!"

The girls got to make special Christmas treats with a dear friend.

We're progressing with knitting. We learned casting off, so she finished her first washcloth.

 

Sledding with friends at a nearby trailhead. We love our local mountains!

Marble track 1

Rosemary and friends at the zoo

Covid shot #1 done

Big snow. Ava is putting her face in it for some reason.

Hot tub at a friend's house

Fun snowy day at Hatcher's Pass with friends

Bonfire party

marble track 2

Rosemary giving her chickens treats, wearing the new octopus hat that Ima made, before the big snow

Halloween, multiple events

Trick-or-teering/Orien-treating orienteering event. 22 families participated. Each family hides a bucket of candy along a gnarled trail system at a local park and marks the location on a map. All 22 candy spots are marked on each family's map, and then each family followed the map to find the candy. Ava is a Viking; Rosemary is a witch.

                                        

Pumpkin carving at a friend's house

Rosemary practicing guitar

Something is funny

Pre-Halloween swim lesson attire

marble track 3

bonfire at a neighbor's

Last of the fall color at Windy Point, with friends

harvesting rose hips

carding wool 1

Fall event at the reindeer farm in Palmer

mechanical bucking salmon

friendly reindeer

Ima came with us!

carding wool 2

practicing piano 

Scavenger hunt at the local park

Rosemary attached googly eyes and drew smiles on her rock family

Magical fall day at Mermaid Cove on Turnagain Arm, Ava and friends

Needle felting lavender-filled hedgehogs as a birthday present for a friend

dance party

Sprig did his job this fall

Just a quick stroll along the coastal trail

another neighborhood fire

cat coming to visit in the back yard

Rosemary and I took Ima up to Powerline Pass to look for battling bull moose. We found two!