On my way to Rio!

Yesterday was the beginning of my journey to Brazil. The kids and I drove the 6.5 hour drive to Bellingham, usually only takes 5.5 but traffic was bad.
We had a picnic with my mom and then sent the kids off with her to spend the week at her house on Lummi Island.

This morning my co-worker Jane and I are on the shuttle to the Seattle Airport. Then we will have about 21 hours of flying to get us to Brazil!

This week should be a crazy busy one and I promise to keep you all updated!

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Well its official! The temp hit 100 in my office today!!! Wow!

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We decided to take a quick camping trip this weekend. Its our last "free" weekend of the summer.
So far we are all relaxed and enjoying each other.

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Let the count down begin

I guess I can officially start my count down to my next conference. One week from today I will be driving my kids up to my moms house and flying out the next morning for beautiful Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Yep that's right! Going to Rio!!!!
The kids will spend the week at the beach with Grandma Barb doing all kinds of fun crazy stuff while Grandpa Gary and I work our tails off in Rio. Marshall will be joining us for a vacation down in Rio also! He is way excited, and why wouldn't he be!! He finally gets to see me in action!

Out of town guests

This weekend was filled with out of town visitors! And it was wonderful!

First off on Saturday we had our friend Julie from North Carolina and Kayla from McMinnville come out for a nice morning visit. We have only seen Julie once since she moved 2 years ago, so that was nice to catch up! Kayla was on our wrestling team and is BFFs with Julie's daughter Jessica, and she is now graduated, engaged and expecting in September! So I got to rub and poke her tummy lots, that was fun!

Then a friend of mine from high school Aaron and his daughter Emma, his girlfriend Jasmine and her daughter Summer all came out for an over nighter.

Marshall and Aaron riding on the Doodlebug.....Heck Yeah!!!

We spent the afternoon playing in the slip n slide....Aaron was demonstrating how to slide for us....apparently he is over the age/weight limit because he blew right through the end and popped it....but the kids did not care much, they still enjoyed playing in the sprinkler part of it.

We BBQed some Carne Asada then had a campfire and roasted smores.

Miss Lucy chillin by the fire....Arrrr I am still a Pirate!Caymus and I, roasting smores! Aaron and Emma, hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
The family of Roachopolis....our nation.....

Great time for everyone. The kids all played so well together and gave us adults a bit of a break.

Sunday morning after a filling breakfast we all packed up and headed for an impromptu trip to the Zoo. That was FUN!

Aaron, Emma, Caymus, Lucy, Marshall, Marlea, Jasmine and Summer

My family....how I love them so! Checking out the baby elephant.

Marshall and the Giraffe!

Old news

Do to the fact that I can't seem to post anything on time, I will just post some random photos and blah blah blah about some random stuff.....

Last weekend Marshall played in another football game, this time here in Salem. They played well and ended up winning by the skin of their teeth.

Final score was 15-12

After the game we all went out with the team and had some grub. Fun day for sure.

Marshall and Justin.....I have a picture of them in Highschool in their football uniforms....I should post that some day....but they both may come after me!!!

We had another full weekend of visiting with friends and yard work. Lots of both!

Not to much else to really talk about, oh our chickens suck. They have not been laying any eggs for several days now.

About a week or so ago I did get a freak egg though. It was super tiny! I would not have been to surprised by it if it had been a few months ago when they first started laying, but they have all been laying good size eggs for some time now.

Caymus ate it up in one bite, he thought that was cool!

Lucy lost something

Last Monday I took the kids to the dentist for there yearly cleaning. Lucy has had a loose tooth for a few weeks and had not yet been sucessfull in getting it to fall out. She is not good at the obsessive wiggling. Guess the tooth fairy does not give her enough $$$ to really make it worth her time!

So at the dentist, I told him that it would not be the end of the world if it came out while he was checking her teeth. So he messed with it a bit and "POP" out it came.

So now she looks like a pirate!!! ARRRRRGH my maties!!!

Both kids have great teeth. No cavities. All new teeth are where they should be. YAY!

4th of July

Yes I know I am wayyyyyyy behind on my posting. Dont really have a good excuse. Busy with work. Very busy. And when I am not working I am working on our property....so it never ends!

So here is our 4th of July!

We went out to McMinnville, our old neighborhood, to BBQ with our very good freinds. The kids had a blast playing in the pool, tent and yard. Us adults enjoyed some real conversation, cold ones and yummmmmmy food!

Lucy Girl playing in the tent.

Mo....not really sure what this was, her war face I think!Caymus learned how to snorkel....kinda. He did entertain himself for a good part of the afternoon though!My man and I.
The kids in there matching 4th shirts. Wal Mart - $3.00 each! Yeah baby!

Me and Lucy, I know she is my clone!

My dear friend BJ!Marshall and Dave...ummmm running with torches? I cant remember what they were doing, but it sure was funny to watch!

Happy Birthday America! We love you!