Life

Things have been a little busy lately and this week will be about the same but I thought I'd post a few quick pictures for anyone interested! :) This is what we've spent 1 1/2 hours each day doing for the last 2 weeks! They all LOVED swimming lessons and learned a ton. Now we just need to test out their skills the rest of the summer. So can you even figure out what one's are mine! The poor teacher, she had 5 kids in their class and 3 looks exactly alike when soaking wet and a 4th who didn't look much different. She did great and had them figured out by the end.

And while we were doing that, Eric spent a long weekend up in Alaska doing what he loves in the water. While the run was late this year he still took home 28 lbs of delicious, wild salmon!



And the last week we've enjoyed playing with new friends!!! While these girls have all met before (about 2 years ago) this last week they've been inseparable. Some of our dear "old" friends :) from college (and before) are staying next door while they're in town visiting. So any waking moment that Taryn and Seth are "at home" the kids have been out playing with them. When they aren't around they just sit around and wait. :) It's going to be so hard to say good-bye!
And THANK YOU to all our Flat Friends who are arriving! Just a few more days and we're off on our adventure. Some of our Friends even came with a suitcase of clothes and even packed their Bible (Sadie and Allison!) Pictures to come soon....

Summer Fun

The weather has been awesome lately and we've been taking full advantage. Saturday night we had a summer party to go to and Hot Wally was playing. Ah....good times! I think the kids ran up and down that hill about 3000 times and passed out when their head hit the pillow that night. Eric missed out on the fun but we'll fill you in soon on what he's been doing.

And a little Flat Friend update. We're getting a few in but will gladly take anyone else! Thanks to those of you who are playing. We won't disappoint. :)

Happy Dad's Day...

...to 3 of the greatest Dad's I know! We spend our day at the Flight Museum in Seattle. We had a great day checking out some of Eric's favorite machines. I also noticed the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree with some of the other expressions I was hearing all day!
I'm assuming my Dad spent it in MI?!? ;) You never know where you'll find him. I called the other day and they were in CA. Oh, the retirement life! Hope you had a great day, Dad.
And Bob is with Dee, vacationing. Today they should be somewhere between Vegas and San Francisco. Hope you had a great day, too!

We love you all!!

P.S. We still want a lot more Flat Friends to take on our trip. Mia is checking in daily to see who else will be joinging us! ;) You still have two weeks!!! Don't be late!!!

Come along with us!

We're getting so excited for our big trip this summer but I've been hearing some rumblings from Mia and Holly about how they are going to miss their friends. So in an effort to help with that we'd like a little help from you! We're hoping that we can take some "Flat Friends" along with us and maybe even leave a "Flat Holly" and "Flat Mia" in town so they don't miss out on any of the fun here this summer.So, here's where we need your help. If your kids (or you!) would like to go on our 16 state adventure with us, help them make a flat version of themselves and get it to us by July 2. As we travel to our different destinations we'll post pictures us with our "Flat Friends" all across the country. You can make your "Flat Friend" however you want. One way would be to cut the head out of a picture and make a body to go with it. If you have some contact paper in the house, cover it with that to make it a little more stable. I made Holly's by printing a picture of her on an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of card stock and cutting her out, then covering it with card stock. For Mia's, we "extracted" her head out of the photo using Photoshop Elements and printed it on a piece of card stock and she's adding her body. Then we'll cut it out and cover it with contact paper.

We're also wondering if anyone would like a visit from "Flat Holly" or "Flat Mia". All you need to do is be willing to take then along with you during your summer adventures, whatever they may be, just hanging around home would be great! Then write in the notebook they come with and maybe snap a few pictures (and even e-mail them to us if you want so we can see what they're up to!) For anyone interested in "hosting" either of them, let us now and I'll make a list of where the different stops will be in their notebook so you know where to send them when you're finished. So, if you are in Lynden and want a "Flat Friend" to visit you sometime this summer, let us know.

Maybe, when we get home, we'll be open to sending them on a cross country adventure of there own so our out of town friends and family can play. But you certainly may send us a flat version of yourself for us to take along if you want!! The more the merrier.

We hope you'll play along! We're excited to see who will join us on our adventures!

Congratulations, Alyssa!

One of our favorite people turned 18 this week and 2 days later graduated from high school. Although, we're a little sad we are so happy for you! Congratulations, Sissa! We love you!!!!

Thanks, Friend...

...for the BOATLOAD of Rescue Heroes. They are helping us survive these terribly rainy days! Our friend Traci literally brought over a truckload of these goodies which my boys are lovin'! And, schools out for the summer....now, just bring on the sun!

We're pretty normal

We did go camping this weekend and I'd love to show you some pictures. However, blogger is preventing me from adding any more....check back later!

So, instead of pictures I'll share a funny little thing that happened. On our way home we had made it over the mountains and threw the woods and were about an hour from home. We decided to stop at Mc Donalds for some ice cream. As we were in there waiting there were 4 ladies checking our family out. After they ordered and were waiting with us one of them asked the question they were all dying to know "Are they twins?" Seriously! There's 3 of them standing in a row but people just don't dare ask the obvious some times! Anyways, we made a little small talk and she finally says "You look pretty normal." I'm just curious what we're supposed to look like? :)