Gretchen Fawn Photo - part of the Snoqualmie Moms Support Collective

Some of these were already posted, but I wanted to share a handful more. We took our three girls out for their annual hat pictures. We were very very very late. Miserably late I tell you. This is happening each year a little later. This is not good. This defeats our purpose of capturing the pictures one year apart. There is alas another problem, the hat. The hat, you see has been lost for a few years and another hat was substituted. Then the unbelievable happened. Serafina grew out of the hat! When she was 14, she had to really cram her noggin' in there. So I took to taking a few pictures of her holding the hat, not the same affect. The idea was in the beginning to capture them in the hat while it was very big, adult size and show the progression until it fits. So I guess I give up the hat for her now. This is not easy for me to do as I have been working on this project with my kids for 14 years. Josie and Gabi can still fit the hat, so we will continue, but here we are with late, ...

My girls have been a part of the Snoqualmie Valley Girls choir for the last 5 years. My friend Teri was the director when we first moved out here. They have had three other wonderful directors in that time and for the last few years, Laura Edvaldson has done a great job leading the girls with Sandy Hambrick on the piano. They both have special relationships with the girls in the choir! Let me not forget to mention the Madland family, who have been with the choir since the inception years ago! Their daughters have grown up and are now off at college. However, they still have a special place in their hearts for the choir and invited us all over to decorate cookies and cupcakes. It is truly a wonderful time! The girls look forward to it all year and this year, my middle daughter is the one in the choir, but she got to bring her older and her younger sister to join her. We were even serenaded by the Madland girls with some amazing tunes! Thanks to Lee and everyone else who made it a specia...