Mayfield Lake Park

We camped here last weekend. We had a great time! We had a partial view through the trees down to the water. Once our campsite was set up, the kids got their bikes out and went for a ride.

We were glad to have gone mid-week because hardly anyone was there and the park had lots of great trails/roads to ride on.
This was just down around the corner from our site. It was a great lake to go sea-dooing on. More pictures of that next.

Drive By

We went camping last week and drove by this gorgeous view. This is Riffe Lake.

Just ONE of the reasons I love WA!

I'll get some camping pics up soon . . . . just dealing with a computer that has more fits than a 2 year old.

Memorial Day Weekend

Okay, so that was a while ago....but I'm trying to get caught up on posting, and I don't like to skip things we've done. Don't you like staying in the loop? So to catch you up, here's what we did the Saturday before Memorial Day. We heard through the grapevine about the 28 miles of garage sales going on out at the Long Beach Peninsula. They weren't near as good as we were hoping. Oh well, you win some and you lose some. Our consolation was getting to go to the beach and play the rest of the day! It was chilly out there as it usually is on our beaches here in the Northwest, but nothing a sweatshirt couldn't handle!

It was windy, but not quite enough to get the kites up for long.

Keith & BrooklynOkay, who's the wise guy?
I have so many more pictures of Brooklyn because she's so much easier to get to cooperate - in case you're wondering why.

It sure is fun to run your toes through the sand!

But not so fun to remove it before getting into the car. We were taught the trick of sprinkling baby powder on and the sand rubs right off. Still, how do we end up with a beach full of sand in the car when we get home? Crazy how that is. . . .

We went to a BBQ on Memorial Day itself. The first of the season! We love a good BBQ. How about you?

Bugz

Brooklyn had a speaking part in a program at school on May 8 called Bugz. It was about different bugs going on a picnic. I didn't get a video clip of her part - oops. We heard it for weeks before hand. "That's right, I am a dragonfly. I may look rather odd. That's because I just went through a metamorphosis. For I'm an arthropod." She did very well, I must say.

Her moment of fame. . . .

A clip of one of the cute songs about fireflies. The kids loved having the lights out and using flashlights.

Chocolateness

I don't think I ever posted this picture from back in February. I wanted to show off this beautiful cake that our niece Kayla made to celebrate all the February birthdays in our family. There are 3 in our immediate family alone! Sorry for the flash reflection, but isn't it pretty? Kayla's only 15! Don't you think she should start a business? Love the browns and turquoises. The cake was delicious, too!

Sweet Sixteen

A short trip down memory lane...

(1st 3 are pictures of pictures so not the best quality)

3 months

I'm thinking 3 or 4 yrs old (any idea, Mom?)

I'm pretty sure he was 4 here. Taken at Rawhide in Scottsdale, AZ - 1997.

♪ Happy Birthday to Jordan on April 27th! ♪

He loves his cheesecake!

Oh how time flies! He got his driver's license this Tuesday so there is another teenager out on the roads of America. We're already looking into college classes for Running Start next year. It'll be over before we know it!

♪ Happy Birthday Dear Twin ♪

Hope you're having a wonderful birthday all those miles away, Donald! ♥ Anita

Fishing

A certain little guy had been counting down the days till fishing season officially began. He knew Dad had to work on Saturday, but there was the promise of a fishing outing in the afternoon to celebrate the start of the season. Even though Dad was at work, he had his pole and tackle box sitting by the back door all ready to go first thing in the morning. As soon as Dad got home, he put everything by the car in great anticipation.

They didn't catch anything, but they "had some nibbles" according to Jaeden. A little boy couldn't be happier that fishing season is now here! Anyone else "in the same boat"?

Married Cousins

Our oldest nephew Chris and his sweet wife Krista from AZ stopped to visit us the end of January when they came up to WA to get the rest of her things. What great news to hear that they're expecting a baby at the end of the summer! That will make us a great-aunt/uncle. Can't wait to spoil the wee one!
We saw Chris' married sister, Molly Jo (middle) from AZ a couple of weeks ago when she was up to take care of some business. The cousins always have a great time together! Can you tell? Jordan, where's your goofy face?

Spring Break

We had hoped to go up to Canada to Keith's uncle's dairy farm, but decided to stay home instead and do things locally that didn't cost very much.

We enjoyed visiting one of our favorite places last Tuesday. We'd heard that they had some babies on the farm so the kids were excited to go check them out. Even Jordan was looking forward to it! Only downside was that it was a weekday, so no fresh apple fritters for us.

Jaeden & Brooklyn always insist on a picture with the apple tree.

Strutting his stuff

The kids were delighted to see that there were some "escapees" that had climbed through the fence.

Love their fluffy little tails!

These little darlings were feeling rather frisky! The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

King o' the barrel

It was a VERY cold and windy day so we didn't stay as long as we would've liked to. We still had a great time and enjoyed our day. During Spring Break last year, we were on our cruise so we were wishing we were on another one again.

Walkin' on Sunshine

We took advantage of a rare day (lately, anyway) of sunshine and went for a nice long walk to the park. Walking is such a wonderful way to see things that we can miss when driving.

More evidence of spring

The Mr.

The middle child

The baby

The first born

Oops! He wasn't happy that he was forced to go on a walk and was uncooperative so I missed the opportunity to take his picture. He was in a much better mood on today's outing, so I promise a picture will be forthcoming.

Send more sunshine our way. . . . it seems to have been misplaced here!

♪ Happy Birthday, Dad ♪

Thinking of you on your 60th and wishing we were there to help you celebrate! We hope you had a wonderful day!

Donald and Dad in Tennessee - Jan 2009