Summer Happenings

Daddy and Abbey swimming

Me and my girls

This was the theme of the week - as little clothes as possible!

Sweet little baby

My pretty Abbey

Sweet sisters - love those little buns!!

Our family

My 4th of July baby

Happy Birthday sweet Ella!

Opening gifts

She loved the cake!

Digging in!

Me, Anya, and Hannah

7 miles later

We did it!! YAY!

My mom, cousin Ana, and Abbey at the fair

Abbey at swim lessons

Us at Ty and Alisha's wedding

Karen and me :)

At Semiahmoo - Duane making fun of my height :)

Naked baby!

Miss Abbey

Loving the water

Tide pools at Clayton Beach

Clayton Beach

Spaghetti Night!

MMMMMMM......

Silly baby!

Lara and me running the Bham 15K in September - what a beautiful day it was!

Okay, I am the WORST blogger ever! I'm such a slacker! Between keeping up my Facebook (priorities :)), and business of life, I have neglected this thing. But, I'm wanting to change that...from now on I vow to post at least once a month, just for the sake of updating. I LOVE reading all of my friends blogs...you all are so talented and creative, I just love catching up on your lives and I want to do the same.


So, our summer was awesome! We had a lot of fun times this year. I love fall, but I am having a hard time letting go of this summer. Besides the AMAZING weather we had this year, we got to enjoy Mariners games, two trips over to my in laws property in Eastern Washington, a week of camping at Lake Chelan, Ella's FIRST birthday, two sessions of swim lessons for Abbey, afternoons of playing in the kiddy pool and sprinkler, the NW fair and just hanging around. I also ran in my first two races and plan to keep on going. I just love it!


What a fun season it has been! As always, I take WAY too many pictures to post, so here are some just quickly highlighting our summer.

Spring time!!!

Spring is here! Sun, rain, sun, rain...and we love it! We've been busy around here doing yard work, planting flowers, spending Saturday mornings at the baseball fields and just being outside as much as possible. We've also had a few bbq's already and our first fire of the season where we made smores too...so much fun!

Duane had the lawn aerated a couple weeks ago and has been busy fertilizing, sanding and seeding the lawn. I think growing up in Lynden has rubbed off on him more than he realizes :) We WILL have the most beautiful lawn in the neighborhood according to him! I love it! He's also been coaching his nephew's baseball team when he can make it, so the past couple of Saturdays we've been out there. Abbey loves going and seeing everyone.

While he's been busy with the lawn, I've been busy in the flower beds...one of my favorite things! I spent $70 more dollars at VanWingerdens the other day on flowers and bushes and got them all planted. We also planted a bunch of Dahlia bulbs (from Trisha) and a tomato plant (from Tammy and Zach), which are new this year. We'll see how they do :)

Abbey got a new watering can and has been my BIG helper planting and watering all of the new flowers. She loves it and it gives her something constructive to do. She's also been enjoying her big girl bike...she's pretty good on it! She is outside whenever she can!

Ella cut her two top teeth this past week or so, so that is new and she is also a HUGE outdoor lover! Anytime the garage door opens she crawls to the door (like a puppy) and waits for someone to open it. She kicks her legs and smiles when we take her out...SO happy! She wasn't sure about the grass at first, and would shudder when she touched it, but now she is crawling all over it, and getting dirty! We also put the baby swing up on the swing set, so she's been loving swinging with her sister! They laugh at each other and scream...lot's of fun!

Well, that's the update on us! Wishing you all a HAPPY SPRING too!

Easter

Our Easter was busy and fun. We dyed eggs, went to church, my parents house, and then brunch at Monte and Trish's house. Abbey got to participate in an egg hunt at each house and came home with tons of eggs and candy! Oh, and I can't forget how much fun I had dressing the girls alike in their pretty dresses, they were so cute :)

more Aquarium pictures

my favorite posts are pictures :) They tell the story themselves!

A trip to the Seattle Aquarium

We've been wanting to go to the Aquarium for a while now, and Duane had 4 days off last weekend, (and it was his birthday the 14th) so it was a good excuse to go! We got a hotel room Friday night....went walking on the piers and waterfront to the Sculpture park, met Candace for dinner at Anthony's and went to the Aquarium Saturday morning. It was so much fun! Jerry, Vicki and Michelle came with us too, and made it all the more fun :) Abbey is at a great age for it, she just loved it. Her favorites were the mini Seahorses, some kind of "big" crab, and watching the scuba diver clean the tanks. :)

Ella's pierced ears!

Ella got her ears pierced a couple of weeks ago! She did really well (only a little crying) and they look adorable! Here are some pics...