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Weekend getaway

We needed a break, so I went on Groupon and found a deal on a random hotel in Silverdale.  It was so great to get away and spend some time together as a family.  (Editor's note: as I write this on day 14,000 of COVID-19 quarantine, my past self apologies to my current self for thinking that going to a soccer game every weekend was some sort of huge hardship)

The kids LOVED the free breakfast and the swimming pool.  Months later, they still talk all the time about "when we went to the Best Western Plus".  Seriously, I have heard them say "Best Western Plus" more times than I have heard them say "Walt Disney World"

The hotel is right on this little inlet, so we wandered down the waterfront and threw rocks in the water.

On Saturday, we drove to Poulsbo to wander around town.

This is how we dressed to go to dinner, we're fancy in this house.

More cheer photos

No School Day

No school days = Jammies and reading all day long.

Foster Dog #2 - Baby

A few days after Nico went to his new home, we signed-up for our second foster dog.  I picked "Baby" up at SeaTac at 9 pm on a Monday night.  She came from the Kauai Humane Society, apparently she was a little too timid for the shelter environment.  Little did we know that she was also too timid for the house with not-so-noisy kids too. 

She spent over a week hiding in her crate as much as possible.

After over a week I was finally able to pick her up.

After a few weeks of her running from everyone or snapping at us whenever we came close to her, I had a session with one for the DGS trainers and things got better, at least for me, she never did warm to Keith.  

Parker was terrified of her the whole time, I think this is the closest he ever got to Baby, and it's only because Cecily is the buffer between them.

Amazingly, after having Baby for for 8 weeks, we still found someone who wanted to adopt her.

I think that Baby was an exceptionally difficult case, but either way, I don't think we'll be fostering again.  Actually, at this point, we're not really sure we even want a dog at all.  We'll see.

Cecily's New Sport

Cecily decided she wanted to try out curling, so we set her out on the ice for a practice.

I think she was mostly there for the cookies at dinner, so she was "one and done".

Cheer Time!

Cecily's cheer squad had a competition in Everett, so we all headed up for the day.  She was a little bit excited.

The girls did great.