⚒ Completed several additional DIY projects in the kitchen. 🏀 Casper basketball team placed 2nd in their league. ⚜ Troop 633 has a new scout: Casper. 🌸 Spring is here.

🎨 Hair dyeing with Henna. 🔨 Many DIY projects. ⌚️ Immediately lost my Fitbit. ♻️ Spring cleaning.

We started January in the cloud forest of Monteverde and finished the month celebrating Casper's 13th birthday. We saw sloths in the wild, ate great food and now all wear a Fitbit. My nerd side project this month was switching over to Pushover.

🌴 We closed 2018 out in the tropics with Tatyanna's family in Samara, Costa Rica. 🏄 We surfed. 🐬 We saw dolphins. 🌅 And we saw many lovely sunsets.

🛄 A last-minute travel purchase: day pack(s). 🏠 We prep our house for house sitters. 🇨🇷 And we're off to Costa Rica!

🔨 The shed is complete! 🎥 I'm experimenting with the GoPro: shooting Timewarp lapses and editing footage on the phone. 🛒 The GoPro needed accessories. 👓 I've got my glasses

🏹 I had a fun offsite with the Google Play Movies & TV team in La Honda learning Kyudo. 🍸 Tatyanna had a seminar in San Francisco over the weekend and we made a date out it. 🎥 Last but not least, I got Go Pro, to document our upcoming trip to Costa Rica with.

A quiet week. 🤓 Casper had his optometrist appointment to get his eyes checked. 🏀 He started basketball practice at the Boys & Girls club. 👓 While I ordered the Öga frame I'd selected for much less in Canada.

🗳 We voted as a family in the midterm elections. ➕ I learned about Google emergency preparedness trailers. 🕶 Bart & Tatyanna visited an optometrist to measure their eyesight. ⚽ Casper's soccer season ended in smoke. ⛰The NKBV ends travel insurance for overseas members next year.

💡 I went to town with additional Philips Hue lights. 🔲 One of my Tiles died prematurely. 📒 We filed our 2017 taxes! 💲 Casper & Honey help at a Pioneer yard sale.

🚜 The shed gets roof tiles. ⌚ I lost my Fitbit. ⚽ Casper's soccer team takes team pictures.

💡Expanding the capabilities of Philips Hue lights with iConnectHue. 🚜 Laying underlayment on the shed's roof. 📒 Completing our 2017 accounting, so we can file out taxes.

💡 I'm making a "dumb" LED lightstrip smart. ⚽ Casper starts in a soccer league. 🏀 Tatyanna registers Casper for a basketball league. 🛠 I got myself a machine try square. 🎫 Tatyanna is a Drive for Schools raffle champion.

This week I replaced some livingroom lights with 💡 Philips Hue smart lights that can be controlled from the 🗣 Google Assistant.

⚜ Troop 633 refreshed the chips of the playground of the church where they hold their weekly meetings.

🚜 We discover a dead deer next to our mailbox and bury it on the farm. 🎂 Casper & Tatyanna go all out for Bart's birthday weekend.

A short week of preparing to leave for Mt Rainier NP.