A day with friends

A year ago, these dear friends of ours had a sweet granddaughter born in Thailand very prematurely. While Olive and her parents fought for her life in Thailand many of us here wanted to do something for them, so you may remember the "Auction for Olive" that was organized. Ro and Co "won" Eric's fishing trip that he put up for auction and last Saturday, Olive's first birthday, we spent a day on the Skagit River. The sites were spectacular, the company even better and the fishing was okay, too.





And yes, Colleen did reel in the only catch of the day!

Soccer, Soccer and More Soccer

Check out that sweet keeper! Ahhh, warms my heart! :) The best part of this picture is the string of blue following the ball as it headed toward the goal.


Not sure what kind of words were exchanged here but I'm sure Joey was encouraging his brother as he was about to take the kick, right?


Lots of soccer action on Saturday mornings. Lots of pictures of the boys playing however, I may have to either hand my camera off, snap some photos from some one else or just get someone else to coach some morning so I can take pictures of the girls.

When school starts so does everything else

Eric started coaching 8th grade football last week and the rest of us headed to the real football field :) to play soccer.


All 5 kids are playing LYS soccer so Saturday mornings are busy! They've all got a great sponsor and hopefully Mia and Holly like their coach, too! :) Needless to say, since I'm coaching there might not be as many soccer pictures unless I can rope a few people into getting some for me! I asked Holly to get some on Saturday and I think we ended up with more of the fans (which are great, too!) and not much of the action on the field.

And their off!

We've got 3 days under our belts and so far so good.






These are (most of)the great teachers we're blessed to have this year. Now if I can just keep track of which teacher I told what I'll be good to go!


Eric took the girls up to the Frasier River last week to do some fishing. They took our friend, Captain Randy, along, too. They all caught LOTS of fish!

But another boat on up there that night didn't do as well. (I won't name names of course!)

Adventures in geocaching

Earlier this summer, Eric won this little handheld GPS unit because of this cool video. (he hadn't even realized he entered a contest until they told him he won...even cooler!)
So on Sunday afternoon we decided to give geocaching a try. We weren't going to go far for our first attempt, just right in our own backyard, so to speak, over at the city park.

We searched,

and searched,

rechecked the location,

searched some more,

and some more,

and some more. We finally gave up! Can you believe it! How hard can it be!! We looked for one other one on the trail and couldn't find that one either. LAME!!! Mia and a friend went back the next day and THANKFULLY found the one down the trail so we didn't feel like complete failures, however, the one in the park still eludes us. We'll go back and search again and let you know if we ever find it. However, if you have found it and have any clues for us, we'll take 'em!

Last hurrah

Last week we headed over the mountains to Desert Canyon for a few days.

We really did a whole lot of nothing. Perfect summer vacation, right?

The guys did a lot of this and VERY EARLY in the morning...

...so they could spend more time doing this.

we did a little of this (even watched the meteor shower from this same place the next night)

a little of this, (the boys thought it was pretty cool they got their own t.v. in their room)

a little of this,

I mean THIS!

a whole lot of this (hot tubbing AND picture taking)

and a WHOLE lotta THIS! (check out those abs, I'm a tad jealous)

and THIS,

and THIS! (Happy kids and happy picture taking mom! What more can you ask for)


oh, and THIS (buying and trading Silly Bandz with your best buddy)

and this (creative entertainment on a loooong ride home)

Thanks, friends, for taking us Condo Camping. It was GREAT fun!!