Barbie's berries

Spent the Tuesday morning picking berries with the twinks and Nancy.

getting started..

21lbs!

Raspberry icecream popsicles, raspberry puree and 2 gallon ziploc bags of frozen rasperries!

Next week Blueberries! Gotta love the Pacific northwest berries....

Vancouver science museum

We had a day with no plans so we decided to rad on up to the science museum in Vancouver! I still find it so funny that our closest city is Ina differ t country. We had blast exploring it and doing fun experiments! We ended up buying a year pass so we'll be going up a few more times. Plus the pass gets us into over 250 science and other museums throughout the world! We will for sure go to the Exploratorium in San Francisco next month when we are there.
We ended it at Dickie's BBQ in Lynden for the kids eat free dinner!

Summer days!

When the suns out I try and get the gets out and about...except Tuesday, Tuesday is our lazy day. A day where the kids can stay in their jammies all day if they want to and watch as much tv as they want also! We did go for a little run since the girls said they want to get better at running for their Monday night track meets. But then we were back inside watching PBS since that's the only channel with kids shows on out here at birch bay. Then we had some friends over for taco Tuesday and a swim. It was all around an awesome Tuesday!

a huge stump on the beach

Today the sun was shining again so we went and picked about 4 lbs of strawberries and headed back to Everson to freeze most of them for smoothies this fall! Samantha didn't like my dinner I made when we got back to birch bay (BBQ chicken, corn on the cob and rice) and she screamed at me like a spoiled rotten kid so she has to spend the evening in her room cleaning it, reading and she also decided to do math problems. I wish she would learn that she can't talkor act like that to me because it sure would have been a beautiful night to go for a walk along the beach and watch the sun set. Jon is at his weds night golf league so the twinks and I are watching the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe again. We have been listening to the Narnia series on CD and we are on book 3 now. What great books they are.

Picking strawberries at Barbies Berries

Monday night races

Another fun night at the all comers track meet.

4th of July

Started the day off playing on the beach!

Fun times!

Ended it with sparklers!

Dancing for Joy--- NARNIA!

On Father's Day the girls performed their dances at the Mt. Baker Theater! It was a great show, long but so good. I was really impressed with all of the dancing and the show itself was amazing. They took the Narnia Chronicles and put all 8 books to dance and song. Courtney's "gotta sing, gotta dance class" was part of the Santa Claus scene...

Sydneys pre jazz/ballet class was water

Samantha's Jazz/Ballet class was the golden pond

the dancers!

these videos were taken at the dress rehearsal in the afternoon...

Track meet

Another super fun night at civic field! I love the fact that they all love running and they don't get to upset that they don't always get a blue, red or white ribbon! I just love Samantha's smiles while she is running!