Fasser Family Blog

Below are the 8th grade graduation speeches from Lindsay and Greta. Lindsay was chosen by the faculty to talk and Greta was chosen by the students. Sarah Murphy introduced them. All three of these girls are in our Phinney Ridge car pool! We’re extremely proud of the girls, their poise, ability to speak in front of several hundred people in an auditorium and young women they have become. Enjoy.

Greetings,

Lindsay had an amazing adventure with her class to Costa Rica. She’s working on a blog post for that, but I wanted to get some of her pictures up for you to see.

Lindsay is currently enjoying sun, food, spanish, dancing and community service in Costa Rica with the 8th grade spanish class from Seattle Girls School. The link below has more picture and notes on what’s going on. We miss her so much!

http://sgsincostarica.blogspot.com/

Lindsay was interviewed and filmed today for work on her video. The reporter was at Greenlake during the day and saw what was going on. Once the video was done, she reviewed it and came over to the house for an interview. Watch it below – Lindsay rocks!

Hey! I was doing a project about peaceful protest as extra credit for school. I went to green lake with Ivy, Kendra, Lucia, and Mom. We filmed as many people as we could lip syncing and dancing to “where is the love?”. This is what we came up with. Enjoy!

Lindsay’s culmination project for 2nd quarter at SGS was to work in a team and create a video documentary of an culture in our city. Lindsay’s group chose the Scandinavian heritage of Ballard. The team was completely responsible for finding the interviewees, setting up the interviews, asking the questions, filming, editing, producing and presenting to the rest of the class and their parents. Well done Lindsay and team!

Ballard Wa Scandinavian Heritage Video Documentary – SGS from Scott Fasser on Vimeo.

For Lindsay’s 12th birthday, we spent a great weekend at Dabob Bay on a camp spot owned by some other parents at West Woodland Elementary school. The property had an almost finished bunk house, picnic table, composting toilet, running water and a shed – it was lovely. Lindsay invited here closest friends from school and the neighborhood. Jackson brought his buddy Findley while Michelle and I brought my mom . The weather was perfect, the girls were awesome, Jackson & Findley had a blast while Michelle, Barbara and I had a blast getting to know Lindsay’s school pals better.

The weekend was pretty jammed packed with meals, clamming, swimming in the bay, swinging on the rope swing, swinging on the hammock, deep conversations, playing with dogs and fire building. Tess has some pictures of the clam digging and mud fight so we’ll post those when we get them, otherwise – enjoy!

We spent a great weekend with the Murray’s at their new cabin in Leavenworth and picked up Lindsay’s new puppy on the way home. We worked with a breeder in Lake Forest Park (also named Lucy!) and we really liked her.  When we pulled into the breeder’s house Sally and Ivy Watkins were there – they are getting a puppy from a different litter from the same breeder. Lucy is a sweet black lab who loves Lindsay very much. She is very cute and cuddly and ALL puppy!

Hi, I just posted the shortened version of Lindsay’s story that she presented at Beneroya Hall on May 22nd. Click here to read the story. I’ll add the video when I figure out how to get it from my video camera to the web

We’re very happy to announce that Lindsay will be attending Seattle Girls School starting next year. After looking a four public schools (Whitman, Hamilton, Eckstein, Washington) and four private schools (Seattle Girls School, Lake Washington School for Girls, Seattle Academy, …) and applying to two on each side, we were most excited about SGS and Eckstein.

So, now we’re looking for car pool partners – anyone?