Polka Anyone?

On Friday, it was our turn to host the twin's Dance Class carpool group for dinner. The weather was fantastic - a very summer-like 3rd day of Fall! We also got to help celebrate Ruby's birthday.


As for the rest of the weekend, Saturday we attended an Oktoberfest - complete with wiener-dog racing - and Sunday an Arab Festival. Jake and Emily are taking Arabic as their foreign language at school this year, and Drew is in an International Studies program, so our activities made for some great extra credit.


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Dancing School (updated)

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The twins and friends started Ballroom Dancing Class this week. Here are some photos from dinner with our carpool group before the kids headed off to dance. We included a photo of Drew's dance group from 2009 in the album... he was about a foot shorter back then!

We also got to sail Dreamer Too for the first time this weekend. Click here for photos of the kids sporting a much more casual look.

Here We Go Again...

The kids started school today... Drew is a freshman; and Jake & Emily are 7th graders, so it's new schools & routines for all.

Here are links to two photo albums from some of our end-of-summer activities. The kids helped organize a neighborhood Humans v. Zombies game; we took a trip to Hood River for some biking and hiking; and our Ranger 20 has been replaced by Dreamer Too, a Catalina 22, which Pat drove from Montana to Portland over the weekend.


Summer went way too fast... best wishes to all for smooth sailing this school year!