Cousins

Alda and Aly, they love each other!
Blake playing with Grandma's walker
The cute cousins together.

Brian's grandma moved to Olympia, which is good in the fact that she will be close and sad in the fact that she will be needing more care. Pray for healing for her, and strength she will be starting chemo soon.

Our own entreprenuer!!

Pappy and Blake hard at work at the garage sale.



Grammy helped Aly with her lemonade stand. She did great, I think she made around $7. People are so kind they see a little kid and they say oh sure I'll buy your lemonade. All in all it was a fun time for all.

BANGS?????

So I had this bright idea to cut bangs for Aly. I have cut her hair before but bangs are a whole new thing. I did not do so well. I cut them WAYYY too short. I don't know how it happened it just happened. I told Brian to come and not to laugh he did a great job. As soon as Aly was outside I was cracking up. I could not believe I had just cut her bangs way too short. I took her to a beautician friend who fixed them as best as she could being 2 inches too short. Aly loves her bangs which I guess is all that matters but they are taking a while to grow on me. I guess when they are finally long enough I will like them. Hopefully they will grow out before preschool starts in a month.

Her first Race

The winners with their medals!

Running, they worked hard.


Starting off the race


I was showing Aly where we were going to be winning the race.

So my friend Rach and I ran the race for the Homeless. It was fun the kids were cheering us on as we were finishing the race. Aly yelled mom have you won the race yet? I said no but I am about to right up there. We tell her that if you finish the race you are a winner. After the adult run they have a small kids run. Aly and her buddy were so excited that they were going to race as well. They both ran the whole way, it might have been a quarter of a mile but they were troopers.

We of course, saw our friends the Richins and got a few pictures of the kids.






We were able to go to Vancouver for a quick trip to say goodbye to our friends the Evans and the guys play poker. They are going to be missionaries in Mexico but for now they are off to language school for a year. This was the last time all the kids could be together for a long while. It was fun, a bit loud and chaotic with 10 kids but so worth it. Here is our group of girlfriends we have no idea when we will all be together again. It seems God has called most of us to leave the Vancouver area but we have such good memories together.

The City

The Ferry ride!!


The train ride! It was nice and air conditioned!

So we were staying about 45 min to an hour away from New York city so we decided to take the train and subway to the city. People said it would be a fun experience. We decided to go on a HOT day it was 96 degrees and MUGGY. The subway was so hot and not so fun. But we did enjoy our ferry ride to Staton Island and Central Park.

Conneticut beach

The kids looking at the water


We were so close to CT we decided to take a road trip to a beach. The kids loved throwing rocks in the ocean. Blake hasn't been to the beach in OR or WA yet so he had his first experience on the East coast. It was definitely warmer than any beach around WA.