Sunday, August 2, 2009

County Fair Fun

We often like to find a small county fair and hang out. This time we went to one in Lacy Washington (near Olympia) It was a nice little fair but it got way too hot by 3 PM.
There was a group of girls doing a gymnastics show. It was fun to watch and reminded me of Jennie.

We also like to watch the kids race their horses.




What fair would be complete without the mama pig and her hungry babies!

A bit of traveling

We did a bit of weekend running around. We went up to Mt. Rainer just because. We always forget how long it takes to get up there. It's about 2 1/2 hours to get to Paradise but it was really nice up ther. At 10 A.M. it was already about 80 degrees though


We took a very short walk up the hill, there were so many wild flowers out it was just beautiful.


This is the new visitors center. We really weren't that impressed compared to the old one. It was kind of a disappointment.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Tragedy at a friends house

A good friend of mine's home caught on fire today! The house is a total loss but everyone including all the pets got out safe.
There is very little that I can do to help other than lend a listening ear. The family has good insurance so that is good news for them also. Please keep the Hillestad family in your prayers!




Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Major Milestone

Wasn't it only yesterday that we welcomed this sweet little boy into our lives? Watch out world here he comes! Way to go Erik

Thursday, July 9, 2009

The fork and the toenail

So as you most of you know one of the things I did when we remodeled our kitchen was to replace most all of my dishes, glasses, utensils and silverware. I ended up buying very heavy silverware. I really love it and have gotten used to the weight of it but today there an "incident" with a fork. Kent was very nice and had fixed me up a frozen dinner to eat and I was sitting at the island when he brought it to me. I decided to move to the table to eat my dinner and didn't realize he had placed the fork on top of the dinner. When I picked it up the fork dropped on my toe. I knew it hurt but it took a few seconds to realize that the fork had gone straight down and 2 of the prongs went into MY TOENAIL! I was bleeding right through the nail.... I don't think if you tried to drop a fork on your toe you could get the prongs to go through your nail on purpose!
Not to bad of picture below......... If you zoom in you will be able to see one of the holes it left......
Maybe I should have gone for the plastic silverware


Wednesday, July 8, 2009

4th of July fun

The kids had a great time lighting off all of the fireworks. It was nice just to sit back at watch it happen. Always a good time when no one gets hurt and nothing gets burned down :)
Bjorn loves playing out at Travis and Holly's house. He chases the cows and the goat and he spent a lot of time playing with Henry Doodle.

Lot's of luvs and kisses for my little baby!



Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Finally an update! Fun on the lake

So the Beaird family had a reunion this week and we got to join in on some of the fun. Travis had a couple of wave runners and everyone had a great time on the lake.


Erik had fun on the boat, on the wave runner and being pulled on a tube.




Jennie & Chelsie just hanging out! Aren't they cute? Luv ya both!


Boats every where




What a wonderful group!