Lots of fun stuff to catch up on!

Ok so I finally have time to put the last couple of weeks into words.....too much going on, but having lots of fun doing it. We are finally ready to settle down for the next couple of weeks and get back into normal life. We have been on the go since April....vacationing, summering, sight-seeing, having visitors. It has come to an end...all the things we looked forward to are over and now just the memories and the blog. Chris ends his internship this Friday and has a two week break before school starts, so we are just going to relax and do nothing but play with the kids and watch the olympics. I am looking forward to this coming semester, Chris has an awesome schedule, we are going to see a lot of him, he doesn't have class until 2pm on Mon and Wed...he is done by 4pm on Tues-Thurs and has no classes on Fridays. And best of all, he has no writing classes, Yay!!!!


So, let's start the catching up with Brooklyn's creative dance class that she has taken this past month. She absolutely loves it and it's perfect for her. My favorite part is watching these little girls stretch before they start dancing, it's so cute! Brooklyn takes such good direction and is very serious about her class and loves to talk about it. She even got a brand new pink tutu for the class and loves to wear it at home because it makes her dance better. Anyway, here are a few photos of a day where they learned somersaults and were doing an obstacle course. Chris got to come for her last day yesterday and got a kick out of how cute she was and how good she was. Afterwards, the community center was doing toddler splash time and so the kids got to play in the water, it was 90 degrees here!!! That doesn't happen too often in Seattle.





Next thing to catch up on is the fish bone bridge and the giant dragon fly. We have been here for two years now and have always wanted to go and walk this trail near our house to find the fish bone bridge. Well, one Sunday afternoon we finally did it and here are the pictures. It was pretty neat and then we walked a little farther and found a giant dragon fly sculpture as well, Brooklyn thought that was pretty neat.

The next fun day was a Christmas in July party we went to with my mom's meetup group. We had a potluck picnic down at Lincoln Park by the shore. Then we exchanged presents. It was really fun and the kids were so excited to exchange presents. Brooklyn kept saying how silly it was to pretend it was Christmas. Beckham got a stuffed winnie the pooh and brooklyn got a bug flashlight. They had lots of fun. Beckham hasn't been one to latch on to anything much, but he is so attached to this winnie the pooh, it's cute, he loves to carry it around and hug him.

It's been so fun to have free rental cars and free gas all summer, we are sure going to miss that. We were able to have cars, a van, an SUV, and this convertible. The kids loved it! It was small but lots of fun to go joy riding in. We went and drove down by the beach and took it over to Green Lake one day where we went out on paddle boats on the lake. Most of all the kids just loved to pretend they were driving it as you can see from the pictures.

just relaxing

Thinking it would be funny to catch the floating ball!

Ha! I did it!

Ok, now to end this very long post is just a picture of my little stud, he just looked so cute in this outfit, he is growing up way too fast!