BB afternoon

Washington is dealing with a "heat wave" this weekend, and I love it.  After a really sweaty run for me early, and free fro-yo for the other three at a grand opening of our favorite self serve frozen yogurt place we had to figure out what to do with our day.  We stopped to see Grandma and all the wonderful best friends she had over visiting for a luncheon. We ended up out at Birch Bay, in a quiet little spot in the hot sand.  I just happened to have bathing suits for the kids in the car, so they were able to splash in the bay, and catch crabs with Clay.  I had long capri pants on, so I mostly laid on the blanket basking in the sun.  

Elliot came and spent some time with me, I showed him what I had been up to and he tried.  I built a little family of rock towers and Elliot had fun balancing the rocks for his own tower. 

 He then spent the rest of his time walking the logs and climbing around, spying all sorts of treasures- I went along and we found lots of smooth rocks, pretty flowers, shells and cool looking logs. I think falling in the water on the barnacles resulting in barnacle shaped cuts on his knee made him appreciate the sand more.

 After wading down the beach and making some new friends and trading stories on the crabs they had caught Gabby came back to the blanket.  The girl is either battling a long cold or has allergies, I thought I had a great picture of her running up out of the water... zoom in and see two nostrils dripping so much snot and a sad look on her face.  Building a sand castle and drying off cheered her up.

 Clay skipped some rocks.

 G and I tried to get a picture together, but I guess I was zoomed in to far.

We finished off the evening with a BBQ at  Molly's, the kids all playing and the 4 adults talking.  What a great day, here's hoping for many more summer days like this in our future.

June photos

Since I have absolutely horrible about blogging lately, I figured the best way to catch up was just a photo catch up. I haven't been using my camera all that frequently, but here are a few of the big fun things going on the past month!

 Gabby graduated from Kindergarten.  It was 2 weeks before school got out, and there were 3 classes with an absurd amount of family to watch.  The songs were my favorite part.  Gabby has been looking forward to this day for a few months- like in April she started talking about needing a shower the night before graduation.

 She chose to wear her birthday dress, because she it would match the cap she had painted.  What you don't see are the black athletic shoes she wore because it was a PE day (she didn't want to bring a change of shoes, she's just practical!)

 Elliot and Charlotte had their gymnastics show.  Both kids did great, and have really learned quite a bit during the few months they have been taking classes.  Elliot loves the trampoline.

 Climbing the rope is his favorite tho.

 We celebrated fathers day and my dad's birthday all in one day.  It was a great day out in the back yard.  Grandpa usually requests fruit pizza, and it was yummy.

 The 4 cousins are all into playing together, for the most part.  A bucket of water had them all interested and happy!

 This tire swing provides so many hours of spinning fun.

 Gabby had her last day of Kindergarten, it was an incredible year for her and she really excelled at it all.  The only 2 she got all year on her report card was due to us not turning in the reading log every week- oops!  We always read, but I guess on Friday mornings the paper didn't find its way into her folder each week.

Little EE is the sweetest.  She is so much fun, and has really grown the past few months- she wants to do and eat all the things the big kids do.  Love her so!
Maybe I will figure out how to post pictures from my phone, that way I can keep up to date a little better! Happy Summer, even if it is gloomy gray and raining all week here!