Monday, July 23, 2007
Bored at work??
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Children's Art Festival
Foster Care Resources (where my mom works) volunteered to run a booth at the festival. The booth was called Fish Prints but my mom and I affectionately call it Dead Fish. I have been helping my mom for years and this year we roped Nate into helping!! Te he!! We were pretty thankful that it didn't rain during the festival and that it also wasn't blazing hot.
Some of our favorite questions that we heard from both parents and kids:
"Are those fish real?"
"Are those real fish or dead fish?"
This last question was asked while I was washing a fish off, "When you put the fish in the water, will it come alive?"
Enjoy the pictures!
One of the finished products. Beautiful.
Painting the fish. When the child was done we took the paper and put it on top to make the print.
Wash that fish!!
Nate's fish looks well painted. I think I'm holding a rock cod. They made good prints.
Feel free to leave comments! If the pictures are too small just click on them to enlarge. We hope you all had a relaxing weekend.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
BBQ and Baby Shower
Enjoying some pool time.
Measure the pregnant lady! Nate and I didn't do too well. Sorry Dana!!
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Too Hot!!
I knew it was going to be hot today so I planned ahead and found a Kabob recipe. We recently bought a BBQ and have been putting it to good use. Nate is a wonderful barbequer! I thought I would share the recipe with you all. I marinated the chicken all day so it was extra tasty. Enjoy!
I even took a picture for you all!! This kabob cooked a bit too long but you still get the idea.
Monday, July 9, 2007
Weekend Update
We went to wedding number 2 of 3 for the summer. My friend Jessica, who was my roommate at EWU my last year there, got married this weekend. Jessica and Dan had their wedding at the Catholic church in Arlington. It was a beautiful ceremony. Neither Nate nor I had been to a Catholic wedding, so we weren't sure what to expect. They chose not to have a mass during their wedding. Both Jessica and Dan looked amazing. Here a few pictures from the wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Ely
Jessica and I at the reception
Next weekend we are off to a baby BBQ. No, were are not BBQing babies. It is a combination Baby Shower and BBQ/Send-off for the father who is being deployed overseas soon. Look for updates soon!
Thursday, July 5, 2007
July 3rd and 4th
On the morning of the 4th we washed Nate's car and did a bit of detailing on the inside. It was in desparate need of some TLC! I think the car is thanking us now!!
That afternoon we went over to my Aunt Davida's and Uncle Rick's house in Oak Harbor. My mom and Lance had arrived there earlier. We got there just in time to play a round of Bocce ball. My family gets pretty competitive. We always end up making fun of the people who are supposed to be judging but aren't paying attention. One of my cousins broke the official Bocce measuring stick so now we use the unofficial measuring stick (aka Tape Measure). Ask Nate who won our round of Bocce ball.
We decided to go to the beach just down the road from Rick and Davida's. It was so nice to walk and enjoy the beach. It wasn't crowded at all. Here are a few pictures from the beach.
Wow! What a nice pedicure! It's comforting to think that this time next year we will have returned from a nice vacation in Hawaii. Hello sandy beaches!!!
After our quick jaunt to the beach we went to our friends, EJ and Dave's, house in Oak Harbor for a BBQ and to watch the fireworks. Their house over looks the harbor. We were the only non Navy people there. Dave is a Lieutentant in the Navy. EJ was my matron of honor in our wedding. They also have two of the cutest girls in the world.
Here are some pictures from the BBQ.
This was our view. The fireworks were shot off from the left island. It was a really nice display. We hope you all had a great 4th of July and are enjoying your summer so far.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Weekend Update
I couldn't resist a picture of some of the water lily's. I made Nate take this one for me.
While we were paddling along we saw this bird on a nest in the water. We thought it might be a turtle but once we got closer we saw that it was not. Does anyone know what the bird is called? I saw a woman with bird book paddle past us in a canoe. Where is she??
Here are some ducks just hanging out.
Remember these goslings from last time?
We had a little picnic lunch again. Here is our view. There was also a man near us with a dog and later he started playing frisbee with the dog. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of that but it definitley made us want a dog. We thought the dog might have been a professional frisbee player just because he was so poised and patient when he was waiting for his owner to throw the frisbee.
We got a kick out of this guy. He was in a blow-up kayak and had his dog riding on the front. He pulled into where we were eating lunch. We had to take a picture of him. He is under one of the trees. Look carefully.
Here is a heron we saw along the shore. There were some people near us feeding the ducks and this guy came wondering out of the grasses.
We will leave you with this view of Mt. Rainier from 520. We couldn't resist taking the picture.
One last bit of news. School is out for the summer. Our last day was on Monday, June 25th. Thank goodness. Cross your fingers for less snow and power outages next school year. This is my first summer that I'm not teaching summer school. I applied but I didn't hear anything back. I'm hoping that I will be able to work a few days a week this summer at Nate's shop.
Have a safe 4th of July! Talk to you all soon!