Catching Up With Keeping Up With The Brinkerhoffs

Winter is behind us, Spring is (supposedly) upon us, so it's time to clear out all the pictures we took over the winter that never made it to the blog. They were supposed to, but remember, we have 4 kids, 2 cats and 5 chickens, meaning that blog updates sometimes fall to the back burner... So fasten your seatbelts, we're off!

Tyler turned double digits, and celebrated the big One-Oh with our family's tradition, brunch at the Space Needle.

Any meal at 500 feet up that ends with a steaming ice cream sundae is a good meal!

Cindy took Andy, Kaylee, Tyler and our friend Amy ice skating during Winter Break, because apparently they weren't cold enough already.

They seemed to have fun though. Or maybe they were smiling at first and then their faces froze that way?? (news flash: I hate am not a fan of ice skating)

I posted video of his free-throw skillz, but Tyler played lots of basketball games. Here he is pondering the coach's advice during a huddle...

Andy and Tyler got AirSoft pellet guns from their uncle Chuck for Christmas. Kaylee and Tyler posed with them. And all the raccoons in Fircrest are put on notice that entry into our yard can, and likely will, result in them getting yellow plastic balls embedded in their skin.

Also over the past couple months, things happened that didn't get photographically documented. We foster-parented a chicken that one of our friends found in his backyard. We had her for a week, while he built up a coop to keep her in. She was a miniature hen, and laid a few eggs during her time with us. Here is a picture of one of hers next to one of Layla's:

I never did get a picture of her, but she was cute. The daycare kids named her "Big Booty Judy". Her actual owner named her "Otis". This chicken will require therapy either way.

We also fostered a baby kitty, a very sweet little black and white female we named Aja. She just wandered into our house on a Friday afternoon and started eating our catfood, as if she had always lived there. One of the daycare kids suggested that we should call her Oreo. We rebuked that nonsense and had a great, playful day and a half with Aja. Then her owners called. And said that HIS name was Oreo. Whatever.

Well that should pretty much wrap this wrap-up up. I'll try to do more updating during Spring, and less wrap-up updating!