Summer in Seattle

One of Aki's favorite visitors came to see us in August--his cousin Elizabeth (actually first cousin once removed).

Aki and Elizabeth hard at work in the kitchen making a batch of cookies.

Aki putting the red sprinkles on his crab cookie.

Sampling a few of the different sprinkle toppings.

Fresh from the oven: a crab, dinosaur, and pig.

Off to Mt. Si in search of blueberries.

Elizabeth and Aki picking blueberries.

Blueberries featured in lots of fun deserts like blueberry cheesecake.

And blueberry cupcakes.

More foraging: baiting the crab trap.

Lowering the crab trap down with chicken in the bait box.

And back up it comes with crabs.

Unfortunately every one of the six crabs we hauled up was female--you can only keep the males.

There's always the grocery store.

Aki trying out a kayak on the Middle Fork Snoqualmie.