Easter 2013

It was a fantastic day. I’ll let the pics speak for themselves:

We woke up on Easter morning — and another Christmas broke out.

She may have had something to do with it.

I certainly didn’t.

Later that morning we headed to the Johnstons for an Easter egg hunt, the second of our third hunt that weekend.

My little egg hunters.

Lots of eggs — and candy — in them there baskets.

Someone left a FREE sign on a little girl’s bike. I rode away with it.

After brunch at SPCC.

The SPCC Easter bunny.

The Johnstons and Cheuks.

At the post-brunch photo shoot.

My and Reese’s bow ties custom-made courtesy of TheCordialChurchman.com.

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St. Patrick’s Day 2013

The vast majority of this blog is dedicated to memorializing highlights in the family Jenkins — and specifically Father Jenkins (aka me). This St. Patrick’s Day, however, started as a bit of a low light. The family was all signed up to do the annual St. Patrick’s Day Dash — me in the real race, Reese and Finn in the Leprechaun Run. Unfortunately Finn had a rough evening before, which meant Rhonda had to stay home. No Rhonda meant no Reese because there would be no one to watch her while I ran.

Tom, Tamir and me before the start of the Dash.

So I still did the St. Patrick’s Day Dash.

By myself.

The Seattle St. Patrick’s Day Dash is not an event one should do by ones self. I met up with Tom and Carrie at the Met Market to keep from being the race’s biggest loser, but they were small consolation to missing Reese and Finn.

Reese and I did a private Leprechaun Dash at Laurelhurst Park.

Fortunately the day got better thereafter.

My bow tie and green pants made their season’s debut at the SPCC brunch.

After I got home Reese and I ran a lap around Laurelhurst Park, a .44-mile track that served as her personal Lephrechaun Run. Then the family had brunch with Tom, Carrie, Tamir and Mo at Sand Point Country Club.

All and all not a bad day considering the start.

Family brunch.

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Broadway Bound

Last night Ronnie and I attended the Broadway Bound auction at the Alaskan Street Marriott.

Great fun.

In the next life, maybe we’ll have enough disposable income to enter the bidding.

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Tea Party 2013

Another year, another tea party. (2012 I 2011 I 2010.)

The hostesses.

Unlike years’ past, this time there were no shortage of pictures taken. There were so many good ones, in fact, that I found it impossible to narrow it down to a dozen for a blog entry. Instead, I tagged my favorites from the almost 200 pictures taken and put them in a separate Snapfish album.

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A Weekend with the Spratleys

On Saturday the Jenkins fam ventured east to Easton and the sprawling Spratley estate for a weekend of tubing and family fun. Great fun. A few pics:

Simon, Paige and me posing for a pic.

A view from the Spratley cabin. A River Runs Through It (well not literally, but close).

A self portrait.

Gettin’ ready to go for a ride.

Kiddos.

Reese and Paige on the swings.

Finn wasn’t in his best mood — but lately, what’s new . . .

The fam.

An open gate to the local salmon hatchery made for a welcome diversion.

Finn — exhausted after watching Mom and Dad beat the Spratleys at Scrabble.

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Manilow!

Last night Ronnie and I ventured out to the Showare Center in Kent to see the Pandora Love on Ice ice skating exhibition. Music performed by — yup — Barry Manilow.

Manilow impressed, big time. The 69-year old belted out iconic hit after iconic hit. I know it’s not cool for forty-three year old guys to like the dandy dude, but his body of work is impressive, and to be belting them out a year short of seventy — well, amazing.

On a date.

The evening was marred, however, by the ice skating. Actually the ice skating by Nancy Kerrigan, one of the eight skaters in the Pandora show. Tonya Harding’s former nemesis fell twice during her only stint in the program, the only skater to bite the white. But then it got worse. The show was made for television, and as it turned out the show producers needed to get shots of Kerrigan nailing the jumps she missed. Easier said than done. Kerrigan came out after the show was officially over to nail the jumps for the TV production. But fell again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. In total I believe she fell five times (in addition to the earlier two) before she finally hit one.

Unfortunately the iPhone pic wasn’t as good as Manilow’s performance ….

It was, as you might imagine, tough to watch.

All in all, however, it was a fun evening out. Looking forward to the next one. Something tells me Nancy Kerrigan will retire before then.

but it was better than Nancy Kerrigan, who fell no fewer than seven times in a painful-to-watch performance.

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New Years Eve 2013

Another New Years Eve, another party. A few pics:

A tasty spread.

I was going to dress down this time, but Carrie’s fancy black dress forced me to re-attire.

The highlight of the night was a co-ed putting contest …

that Reese (shown here with her partner Tom) starred in …

and Mommy and Norman won.

The Cheuks.

The Joffes, sans Aaron.

Jeffrey, Jeff, Colleen and Lilly — new friends from Chicago.

Happy New Year!

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Christmas 2012: Santa was SUPPOSED to Cut Back This Year …

but he didn’t.

No gift better than these.

The family Jenkins.

Reese with one of her favorite gifts.

Ollie wondering how much of Finn’s harmonica she’ll have to put up with.

Finn and his new iPad.

Reese received an iPad AND a Barbie house.

Another great Christmas.

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Mother-Daughter Tea Party

While Finn and I were enjoying our father/son day out at Sand Point, the females Jenkins were doing the tea thing with their girlfriends. A few pics:

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Green Lake Gobble Run 2012

This morning the family Jenkins got an early Sunday morning start. Our destination was Green Lake and the occasion was the 2012 Green Lake Gobble Run — specifically, the 1/4 mile kiddie run. That’s right: the kids ran a race, I didn’t. I just decided I didn’t want to run this particular 5k.

Since we were forty minutes early we had plenty of time for pics.

I chose well.

It ended up pouring rain the entire time. To make matters worse we arrived like forty minutes early in anticipation of the crowds, which weren’t there.

Some pre-race stretching.

Race time.

The kids eventually ran their race and did spectacularly well. For Reese it was particularly special: a year ago she was all but too afraid to run the race.

What a difference a year makes.

Post-race breakfast at iHop.

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