May! Yay!

May was so very busy!

Yet another trip to Seattle, then returning home to hit the ground running.

No stop to the schooling, and the extra-curriculars!

Go, go, go!

*****

 

Flight!

Just me and Miss.

SLC-> SEA

Third time in so many months.

Landed

Thank goodness for a lovely homecoming.

Off to visit Gong-gong.

The parking was not plentiful.

So we parked a ways away.

Enjoying a walk though the trees...

I have a greater appreciation for the PNW, now.

Its beautiful temperate rainforest is a treasure.

Gong-gong's new digs.

<3

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Lunch.

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Next morning.

Getting new tires put onto Gong-gong's car, at the tire store.

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Again at Gong-gong's

It's so cool to see that he's received my Hong Kong postcard!

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Lunch again.

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Breakfast the next day.

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Another visit with Gong-gong.

He's using a pedaling machine to work on his leg strength.

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Later that evening...

We're off!

To hunt down this amazing Hong Kong style dessert place!

Yum.

Yum!

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Off on our roadtrip.

SEA->SLC, via car...

...via Bend, OR

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First though, we needed to stop at this small-business cotton candy sculptor.

She's amazing!

Hooray for edible art!

<3!

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On our way to Bend, stopped by a very weird Starbucks housed in a reservation casino.

Neither of us like the casino...

It was sunless, and truely soleless.

Couldn't get out fast enough...

...After a bathroom break... 

....and a coffee...

...to go

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Made it to Bend!

Here's to good friends!

Cotton Candy craziness!

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Back on the road again.

On a candy fueled tour.

Enjoying the sunroof.

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Hotel in Boise...

The hotel was meh.

*****

Back HOME!

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Meeting a friend!

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We love to draw on and play with our food.

*****

Making a Cake!!!

Rosewater...

Pistachios blended.

A pistachio+pomegranite+rosewater+cardamom cake.

...but I forgot the cardamom!!!

Turned out okay any way!

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Hanging around.

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Friends over

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Chinese dance class!

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A visit from a wild turkey.

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Mother's Day Tea!

A beautiful spread by my loves.

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Mancala.

*****

Random photoshoot!

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Coffee!!!!

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I got tagged.

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Miss 1 with the Youth City Government.

Making her statement in the Youth State of the City address to Salt Lake City Council.

*****

Plantain tongue.

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THIS ONE.

<3<3

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CHEMISTRY LAB:  Fun with Redox Chemistry and Galvanic Cells.

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Escape Room Puzzles.

They are puzzling.

*****

Helping a friend with a coloring Hair!

Miss 3 helping.

Bleaching can be quite boring...

Finished results!

Tips and the front fringe bangs took the color well.

Happy kid!

*****

Coffee!!!

Happy Me.

*****

Sleepover!

She came by Train!

Pick up!

Personal pizzas.

Yum!

More sleepover shennanigans.

:)

*****

Every spring we print new Badgerie Menagerie team tshirts!

Works in progress...

*****

More puzzling.

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End of sleepover...

Requires Coffee...

And feats of drawing!

*****

Living Traditions.

Here to see Miss 3's Chinese Dance Troup perform!!!

The upper level dancers.

Miss 3's dance group.

She's second from the left.

Upper division again.

Adult division.

Upper division again!

So much fun to see!

*****

Back at home...

And we continue work on the individual versions of the Badgerie Menagerie team tshirts!

Miss 2, use the classic screenprint scraping method (sans a screen).

Now comes the (fun?) part where one weeds out the mask.

Miss 3's shirt....

Going with the sponge dabbing technique.

Weeding can be very satisfying...

The finalized Badgerie Menagerie Family Team shirts, Spring 2024!