Hubby's Hobby

Jeremy's favorite thing to do in the summer is to go to the lake and get behind a boat.

And the secret to being a successful skier...

Birchwood Dairy

Birchwood Dairy is one of our favorite summertime outings. The ice cream is amazing and the kids love running around and looking at all the farm animals. We met some friends there the other day.

When we arrived Sam got out of the car and noticed the gravel parking lot. His comment was "It's rock-o-lee here". Where does he come up with this stuff? We then went to get ice cream - he noticed the cotton candy flavor (gross) and said "I want the pink one". We did the sneaky parent thing and ordered him raspberry (which is also pink and way more tasty) instead. Good thing we did since we had to eat it... he had about two licks and then announced he was done and wanted to go play on the tractors!

Care Group BBQ

You know it's time to go home when:

Would You Like Fries With That?

Someone is Brilliant

I just noticed that Cutest Blog on the Block will make your blog into a book! Isn't that fantastic?!! Wish I would have thought of it first. One day I'm going to make books for my kids... could be a neat legacy thing. Hmm... makes me think a little bit differently about how I blog....

Stay-cation weekend

Jeremy didn't get any of the summer holidays that he requested so we decided that since we couldn't go away we would be purposeful about having lots of family days and enjoying some things that are close to home.

On Friday evening we went out for ice cream and then visited the park that is just down the street from our house.

Check out this garage sale find! Sam is so proud of his new car!

On Saturday we went to IKEA (I know... "IKEA... Swedish for crap", but it's sometimes a fun place to walk through). In the parking lot they had a safety fair going on. It was totally geared for kids. Sam loved the mascots and is still talking about them two days later. He was having "disneyland" kind of fun there!

After church on Sunday we headed into Langley. It was the grand opening of the new Golden Ears Bridge and it was open for people to walk across. Grandpa and Grandma were there too and thanks to the invention of the cell phone we were able to find them in the crowd.



What a fabulous weekend! I'm so thankful for this little family of ours!

Amazing...

Obviously all you teachers out there have known this for a long time, but I just got it...

STICKERS...

they're a powerful thing!