Sunday, May 30, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
The Sculpture Park
Why haven't we been here before?! It was awesome - really cool sculptures and lots of space to wander around and.... a Choo Choo train!!!! (the girls decided it must be on the way to Bellingham)Caroline points to the teeny boat - see it?
Macie simultaneously stomps on the light (fun activity!) and checks out the big sculpture 
The girls throw rocks through the cracks and don't even notice the cool light patterns on their heads!
They even have chairs here!
The best part - lunch with dad!Mother's Day
What a great day! It was beautiful out and the girls were so sweet - saying "Happy Mother's Day, Mommy :)" all day long!
For dinner, Mike and Ben watched the girls and Max while Emily and I got a little break - it was so fun! Here's Max, Caroline, and Macie with their mommies....
It's Summertime - YAY!
We've been telling the girls that they can't wear shorts for the last few months because, "It's not summertime yet," which of course they repeat in their little sad voices. But, mid-May was beautiful and warm, so we've started yelling, "It's summertime, YAY!" every day it's sunny out :)M and C in their new summer dresses from Sarah L. Pretty!
M and C going to the park in, gasp, sandals!
Our favorite spot at the playground - the sandbox is way more fun when you can pour sand directly on your toes!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Meerkats!
Macie and Caroline love the zoo's newest additions!
They get to pretend to be meerkats...
Play with stuffed meerkats....
And, hang out with Gray (and Finn!)
Thank you, garbage truck!
One of our favorite weekly activities. And, yes, those are nametag stickers on their backs from going to the Y that morning :)
Girls' Trip - lots and lots of girls
My college roommates, Shannon and Kristen, flew out from Atlanta to spend our yearly weekend together at basically the same time Mike flew East. Luckily, we can squeeze two big cars seats with two big girls and three big adults into our car. So, we drove the girls up to Bellingham, dropped them off with my parents, and continued on to Vancouver, BC for a couple days of relaxing (and running the 1/2 marathon). They also started a kids' sock company (blindmicesocks) and met with a shoe company while they were out here.... the girls reaped some benefits from that (see left)! 
On the water taxi to Granville Island
Ready to run!
Back in Seattle!
M and C love the new look!
Fun pics from April
Kissing baby Quentin (the girls call him baby Clinton :)
This looks like a good idea! How's the ride, Macie?
Ama takes M and C on a bus ride!
NO, CARONINE!!!!
We picked out these outfits all by ourselves. No, really.
Mmmm.... dirt!
EW! Caroline and Macie show me what they got into.... They've been getting into a lot lately - baby powder, climbing their cribs, unlocking the dead-bolt to get outside, poking a big hole in the soap, and baking soda! Messy messy!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Great Grandma Mary B.'s Life
Mary Barker Whitlock Copeland passed away April 29, 2010. She was born in Tobaccoville, Virginia on June 30, 1923 to Ruth Fowlkes Whitlock and Ralph Brackett Whitlock. When she was three years old her family moved to Atlanta where she attended R.L. Hope Elementary School and North Fulton High School.
Mary attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. She married Howell Silvey Copeland, Jr. in 1946 at Peachtree Christian Church. She loved bowling and was a member of a league for over 20 years. She has been a member of The Gardeners Club of Atlanta since 1958. She was a member of the Cathedral of Saint Philip for many years before joining Peachtree Presbyterian Church in the 1980’s.
She is preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Howell Silvey Copeland, Jr. She is also preceded in death by her brother, Ralph W. Whitlock.
Mary was a devoted mother and grandmother. She is survived by her loving children and their families: Howell S. “Buddy” Copeland, III (Brenda), Carol Smith (Charlie) and Ginny Bowden (Larry), all of Atlanta; Grandchildren: Brittany Scott (Doug), Kathryn McGraw (Michael), Brock Woodson, Clint Woodson, and Melissa Tincknell (Matthew); Step grandchildren: Mike Smith (Sarah), Scott Bowden and Dustin Bowden; Great grandchildren: Anna Kathryn Scott and Meredith Scott; Step great grandchildren: Macie Smith and Caroline Smith and several nieces, nephews and friends as well as her beloved dog, Missy.
Mary attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. She married Howell Silvey Copeland, Jr. in 1946 at Peachtree Christian Church. She loved bowling and was a member of a league for over 20 years. She has been a member of The Gardeners Club of Atlanta since 1958. She was a member of the Cathedral of Saint Philip for many years before joining Peachtree Presbyterian Church in the 1980’s.
She is preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Howell Silvey Copeland, Jr. She is also preceded in death by her brother, Ralph W. Whitlock.
Mary was a devoted mother and grandmother. She is survived by her loving children and their families: Howell S. “Buddy” Copeland, III (Brenda), Carol Smith (Charlie) and Ginny Bowden (Larry), all of Atlanta; Grandchildren: Brittany Scott (Doug), Kathryn McGraw (Michael), Brock Woodson, Clint Woodson, and Melissa Tincknell (Matthew); Step grandchildren: Mike Smith (Sarah), Scott Bowden and Dustin Bowden; Great grandchildren: Anna Kathryn Scott and Meredith Scott; Step great grandchildren: Macie Smith and Caroline Smith and several nieces, nephews and friends as well as her beloved dog, Missy.
Great Grandma Lucile's Life
Lucile Schuck Longview, 99, died peacefully on April 20, 2010 in Bellingham, WA, surrounded by the love of her family and friends. A pioneer in many ways, she was born Blanche Lucile Kitson, the only child of Harry E and Macie B (Miller) Kitson, on March 28, 1911 on a farm near Columbia City, IN. She was one of the first women from her community to attend college and graduated from Indiana University with honors in the middle of the Great Depression.
While teaching high school and coaching women's sports in Elkhart, IN, Lucile met O Hugo Schuck, an engineer from Philadelphia, and on August 12, 1939, they were married at her family's farm. In 1941 the war effort called the couple to Boston, MA, where Stephen (1942) and Susan (1943) were born.
After the war the family moved to Minneapolis, MN, where Linda (1947) was born and Lucile became an active leader in the League of Women Voters, the Universalist Church and many community organizations. With their children grown, the couple spent a year at Stanford University, where Lucile studied and became active in the peace movement. They then moved to Lexington, MA, in 1967. Within two months at the end of 1972, Hugo died suddenly and Lucile’s mother died after a long illness.
Lucile committed the remainder of her long, active life to addressing injustices in society’s treatment of women, the elderly and the environment, and along the way changed her name to Lucile Longview. She was an early member of the Grey Panthers and active in the Boston Women’s Health Cooperative, contributing to the well-known book “Our Bodies, Our Selves”. Challenged to make a difference throughout the Unitarian Universalist denomination, she initiated successful resolutions on “Women and Religion” (1977), “Battered Women” (1979) and “Patriarchy”(1980). As a result of her initiative, the denomination added to its Principles to “covenant to affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of existence of which we are a part.”
Lucile, who considered herself a liberation feminist, futurist and change agent, wrote, spoke and traveled widely and her ideas have been incorporated into books, courses, songs and sacred rituals. She earned many awards including recognition at the National Woman's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY. In 2005 she donated her papers to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University and moved to Bellingham, WA, to be closer to her children.
Throughout her life Lucile advocated tolerance, justice, environmental protection, and more civility in the resolution of world problems. She was an avid outdoors woman and loved nature, wilderness and birds. Lucile will be missed, by her children, Stephen Schuck, Bellingham, WA, Susan Hirst, Bellingham, WA, and Linda Schuck, Portola Valley, CA, three grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and many friends. In lieu of flowers, gifts can be made in her name to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, 208 South Great Road, Lincoln, MA, 01773.
Go well, Lucile.
Lucile Schuck Longview, 1911 – 2010
While teaching high school and coaching women's sports in Elkhart, IN, Lucile met O Hugo Schuck, an engineer from Philadelphia, and on August 12, 1939, they were married at her family's farm. In 1941 the war effort called the couple to Boston, MA, where Stephen (1942) and Susan (1943) were born.
After the war the family moved to Minneapolis, MN, where Linda (1947) was born and Lucile became an active leader in the League of Women Voters, the Universalist Church and many community organizations. With their children grown, the couple spent a year at Stanford University, where Lucile studied and became active in the peace movement. They then moved to Lexington, MA, in 1967. Within two months at the end of 1972, Hugo died suddenly and Lucile’s mother died after a long illness.
Lucile committed the remainder of her long, active life to addressing injustices in society’s treatment of women, the elderly and the environment, and along the way changed her name to Lucile Longview. She was an early member of the Grey Panthers and active in the Boston Women’s Health Cooperative, contributing to the well-known book “Our Bodies, Our Selves”. Challenged to make a difference throughout the Unitarian Universalist denomination, she initiated successful resolutions on “Women and Religion” (1977), “Battered Women” (1979) and “Patriarchy”(1980). As a result of her initiative, the denomination added to its Principles to “covenant to affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of existence of which we are a part.”
Lucile, who considered herself a liberation feminist, futurist and change agent, wrote, spoke and traveled widely and her ideas have been incorporated into books, courses, songs and sacred rituals. She earned many awards including recognition at the National Woman's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY. In 2005 she donated her papers to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University and moved to Bellingham, WA, to be closer to her children.
Throughout her life Lucile advocated tolerance, justice, environmental protection, and more civility in the resolution of world problems. She was an avid outdoors woman and loved nature, wilderness and birds. Lucile will be missed, by her children, Stephen Schuck, Bellingham, WA, Susan Hirst, Bellingham, WA, and Linda Schuck, Portola Valley, CA, three grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and many friends. In lieu of flowers, gifts can be made in her name to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, 208 South Great Road, Lincoln, MA, 01773.
Go well, Lucile.
Lucile Schuck Longview, 1911 – 2010
April 2010
Well, our family had two very significant passages during April. On April 20, 2010, my grandmother, Lucile Longview, passed away at the age of 99. She was such a strong influence on my life and I feel lucky that Macie and Caroline got to meet her and spend time with her, even in the last week of her life. They brought her stuffed animals and touched her face and told her they loved her. It was very sweet. She was surrounded by her three children when she died and left this world peacefully.
Macie and GGLu
Caroline and GGLu 
Macie and Caroline with Gigi at Christmas
Only eight days later, Mike's parents called to say that his step-grandmother, Mary B., had passed away on April 28, 2010. Mary B. Copeland was 87 and was just a sweet and peaceful soul. She loved spending time with Macie and Caroline and had a lot of fun showing them around her new Assisted Living home at Christmas in Atlanta. Because she was doing so well just four months ago, I think we felt somewhat surprised at her death. We knew she's been declining sharply, but it was hard to imagine after seeing her so full of life so recently. She just knew it was her time and also left this world peacefully.
It's definitely been a time of reflection and gratitude for our family over the last few weeks, thinking about these amazing women. When the girls were born, three of their their great-grandmothers were alive and they got to meet and spend time with each one. It is sad and hard to believe that in eight months, Mildred, Lucile, and Mary B. are no longer with us. They will be sorely missed and it makes us cherish the wonderful family of which we are a part.
It's definitely been a time of reflection and gratitude for our family over the last few weeks, thinking about these amazing women. When the girls were born, three of their their great-grandmothers were alive and they got to meet and spend time with each one. It is sad and hard to believe that in eight months, Mildred, Lucile, and Mary B. are no longer with us. They will be sorely missed and it makes us cherish the wonderful family of which we are a part.
Macie and GGLu
Caroline and GGLu 
Macie and Caroline with Gigi at Christmas
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