Slow Summer

It's summer time and the weathers been great and we've been trying to stay busy.  Last year at this time we were taking off on our summer long vacation, you can look back HERE for the first of our summer long adventure posts.  This summer we're staying close to home, hoping to get a few camping trips in and are looking forward to some visitors in August.

There's been a lot of sleep-overs in each others rooms already.  

Lots of strawberry jam is in the freezer.

Lots and lots of Lego ships have been built by our master builders.

Even made a few new dresses for the American Girl dolls. 

These pictures are all part of my Project 365 .  After I had done most of the laundry Friday and hung up the shirts in the boys closet I thought I needed a photo of it to remember it and I thought I'd add it for all of you to see. And yes, they each have their own section.

And the sprinkler keeps going!  Not much rain and plenty of sunshine!  That's about it from over here, someone just kept reminding me I needed to update my blog! 

Happy Father's Day!

After church  the whole VH gang headed over at Berthusen Park for lunch.  We had a great time eating lots of good food,  drinking coffee by the fire, playing on the playground and taking  walks through the huge trees and down to the water.

The worlds greatest dad to these 5 crazy kids!

Emma found this snail and didn't let it leave her side. 

Tyler thought he was hilarious with his HUGE mount of whipped cream on his strawberry pie.  (Aunt Joan, I blame this completely on you!)

Gettin' our hands dirty

and we're making a few changes around here.  More soon! By the way, no one has guessed correctly who the clean cut kid is down below...just sayin'!

summer buzz

We're well over 20 days in a row of pure sunshine here in "God's Country". :) (yes, that was for you Chris and Cindy!)  It was time for the shaggy hair to be gone.   Anyone want to correctly identify the clean cut little man in the above photo?  It was his idea to do the hair cuts yesterday afternoon and he even chose what number I should use on the clippers.

That's a wrap

A lot of things are wrapping up for the year. Mia had her piano recital to wrap up her 2nd year of piano lessons. Thanks, Janelle, for another great year!

Joshua is showing his support for a job well done.  If you can't make it out, he wrote "Good Job" on his hand.

Dee finished up her 25th and final year at Lynden Christian (over 30 years overall). We had a luncheon at school for her and gave her a book which included all her class pictures from the last 25 years as well as some notes from past students and co-workers.

Holly wrapped up a successful year playing baseball. Her last game, she even belted out into the outfield!

Lucas, Tyler and Joey concluded their pre-school year with a Shoebox parade. Each of them was given a letter and they and their family :) had to decorate it to represent that letter. Glad that is done!

Field Day is always a fun day that everyone looks forward to at the end of the year. Mia and Holly were on the same team this year. Go White Team!

There's still time to play in between everything else. The activity of the month has been snail collecting. It truly has been a group effort and they've constructed quite the small city for these little creatures.

Grandma, this was Tyler talking to you last Sunday on the phone.  I'm not sure what he was talking about.

I think every day last week more and more "stuff" came home from school. Tuesday Holly took home her artwork folder FULL of great things they'd worked on all year.

And while we've been busy doing all this "stuff" it's been beautiful and sunny and HOT!!

So HOT that this is what our cupcakes looked like Thursday afternoon after sitting on the counter all day. They used to look like baseballs.

Saying good-bye to teachers was rather hard this year. We had some AWESOME ones and I don't think anyone was to eager to say good-bye.

We had Heritage Days (formerly known and Holland Days) yesterday. The weather was perfect, a little overcast, for a day full of parades and dancing. Thanks, Grandma, for the BEAUTIFUL new costumes this year!