Thursday, July 28, 2011

Flowers


These are from my yard. I think that they turned out beautiful this year.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

OH BABY!!!

Yesterday we got a phone call from Dorene. Mike and Jenny are expecting their 2nd in March. Hooray! We are so excited for them. Congratulations Mike and Jen!

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Camping



We went camping at Fort Casey and Camano Island in Washington State. We had a great time even if the weather was a little rainy and cold. We started out at Fort Casey, which is on Whidbey Island, with Mo, Carr and Kari Ann. It was very nice and relaxing until we started playing cover your assets! It was a lot of fun. Then the fighter jets started their touch and goes at about 9:15 pm and did not stop until midnight. They rattled your bones they were so close. Whidbey has a navel air station on it and that is why we were so close to everything. "Its the sound of freedom" so we don't complain. I would suppose the residents get use to it and have lots of ear plugs!
One afternoon Uncle Carr bet the girls one dollar that they could not hula hoop around the camp loop. Mo was up and going. They did it. It was a lot of fun and the whole campground was looking at them.


We also took a ferry boat ride to Port Townsend. It was a beautiful day, we went in little shops to look and then bought ice cream cones! Yummy!
We left Fort Casey on Wednesday and headed for Camano Island.
The some of the family were already there, and some came later in the week. Eli, Emilee and Ivy came on Wednesday. We had a great time with everyone. We took a family picture and a group shot and I will post it as soon as I get it. There were probably 35 people there. And several dogs. We had 3 in our group alone. It was a lot of fun and yummy. We had fresh crab every day. I love crab. Ivy even touched the crab! I just ate it. I think Jim had some and so did Aly.
Aly, Kari, Artie, Benson and Pepper





This is Emilee, Eli and Ivy, me pepper and my nephew Andrew. It was very cold and windy on this first day but the other days it was beautiful.
We will also be camping in August. I love camping!

Friday, July 8, 2011

What a great time we had and Happy Anniversary





What a wonderful time we have had so far this summer. It was so nice to have everyone here for a week. During that time we celebrated our 31st anniversary! WOW! We had such a great time at the beach that day and a yummy dinner. Now I miss everybody. Since everyone has left Dad and I have been busy. I was on Jury duty for a week. Which means that I had to stay home and call in the night before to see if I had to go in. I did on Thursday. We were released by noon so I was able to come home. Yea! I am done for 2 years!
Jim and I started working on the house. We had an arborist come out and give us a bid on our trees. They will be taking out 4 trees on Aug.3, along with a bunch of other stuff! I am hoping it will look great. Probably bare and empty. It will be different. We also started working on the deck. We took off the old boards from the deck and replaced them ( we meaning Jim, I took out the nails and carried the boards to the utility trailer). We also replaced the bench next to the lilacs. We painted all of the rail and bench the other night but the last two days it has been cloudy and threatening rain so we have not painted the floor boards yet, they have just been primed with thewhite. It looks really nice but I would like it to be finally done! During this time we also had Benson. What a good dog. He was here for the 4th of July weekend so that Aly and Ryan could go to Seattle. We had a very quiet 4th. Our neighbors all celebrated!


Next I went shopping with Aly and she helped me pick out frames for the family pictures, and jammies material for the little boys. We had a fun day and I finally finished the jammies. I enjoyed sewing them. Hope they like them. I will be putting them in the mail today.

It is cold today like I said so no painting but I just wanted you to know that I have the little heater on by the computer because I am so cold.
We got a special present in the mail on Wednesday. Grandma Bowles bought Jim and I an ipad2. We are very excited and he showed me how to play angry birds. Thank you grandma! We love it.

Yesterday Jim worked a long day and I went to a wedding of one of my coworkers. It was simple and sweet. She was beautiful and I felt honored to be invited out of our Bilquist family. It was good to see my friends and catch up on the news of school.

Time to get ready for crabbing. Can't wait to go camping.