Family Vacation 2013

Our yearly vacation with our buddies, the Worthy family, was a real blast. We stayed in Linc.oln City in a house we rented.


The girls were at home in the sand.

The kids at the beach.

 

Family photo 2013

 

The surprise photo! Thanks kids.

 

Katie is especially happy at the beach. I swear it's the place her heart is happiest. She takes after her mama.

 

The kids were exhausted every night.

STP/Fort Ste.vens

Dan did the Seattle to Portland (STP) race again this year. His dad had a nasty wreck the week before and was unable to ride, so Dan rode with his cousin, Mikal.

 

 

 

After STP, we decided to take a quick trip to Fort Ste.vens for a night. Joshua has asked for a couple years about following the Lewis and Clark trail. We thought it would be fun to take the kids to the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. It was so fun!

 

The kids LOVED the beach, and the ship wreck was pretty cool too!

 

 

 

 



Best Friends....Our First Friend Moves

Molly and our neighbor Camden have been friends for the last couple years. Sadly, Camen's daddy got a new job in Port.land so they moved. Molly was (is) heartbroken. She is mad. She asks me why we don't move, why I took her best friend away, why his mommy doesn't bring him back. It's sad. But before they moved we had some good playdates. And when they boxed up their house, we let them roam the house together to help cement the idea. Rough!

The River

Our favorite place in the summer is at the river. The older the kids get, the easier it is to spend all day on the beach playing and swimming. This year, the kids made amazing progress in their swimming. AMAZING! The boys no longer wear life jackets and Katie is really close to swimming without a life jacket. The boys learned to dive and can nearly flip as well (off the dock).

Kids Triathlon

The boys did their 3rd triathlon this year. By now they are old pros! This is another event that last year I took the girls in the double stroller and this year they, again, realized exactly what they were missing. Looks like we'll have two more triathletes next year!

This year, cousins, Abby and Macey came too!

Next years newest triathletes!

 

At the finish line!

 

 

Dance Recital 2013

The girls took a combination tap/ballet class this year. They worked on their performance number all year. As it always happens, the fever appeared on dress rehearsal night. We pushed through. Molly had the fever for the rehearsal.


Katie wore her red boots to rehearsal and was so proud!

 At the rehearsal!

The night of the performance, Katie came down with the fever. She was miserable but insisted that she go to the performance. With some Tylenol, some Ibprofen, and some peppermint oil, she broke her fever just at performance time!

First Grade Field Day

At the end of every school year, the boys' school has a field day. There are several areas to do games and activities that the kids can run and do. Last year, I took the double jogger and pushed the girls around while we watched the boys. This year, there was no stroller and the girls realized they were missing out on something amazing.

One of the activities was putting on flippers and riding an "alligator' noodle while carrying a cup of water. It was a big hit!

Grandma Nancy and Dan helped out at the batting station. Katie decided to help grandma Nancy field balls.

 

Finally the girls found a station that was slow enough and at the right level for them and they were so happy! It had them take some big-sized tongs and retrieve balls floating in a pool. Molly was more than thrilled!