Summer Breeze

When the end of the school year rolls around, things get pretty busy in my life. This year was no different - with the addition of packing up and moving all my things to a new classroom. All that to say, this will be a broad blog because I'm a little behind. So, here we go with a random smattering of all the things we've been busy doing the month of June so far...

The weather has been very nice so we've done a lot of playing on the deck. The kids enjoy the water table...

Shelby likes to blow bubbles - rather unproductively, but she thinks she's quite the pro.

We took a trip to Yakima and spent an afternoon at the arboretum taking some pictures. Thanks to amateur photographers Grandpa Lee and Uncle Mark, we have some really nice shots of the kids...

And one sort of good one of everyone together (boy is it difficult to get everyone to look good at the same time!). As you can see, we got to meet baby Courtney for the first time too.

About two weeks ago Camden tripped at the arcade at the mall and hit his face on a sharp corner at the bottom of a driving game. After much screaming, bleeding and swelling, we got him to the dr. and luckily he did not need stitches. Unluckily, however, he has a bad gash in his cheek that will likely leave a scar. Poor little guy.

Hanging out on the couch together. For once both kids shared my lap without any hitting, pushing, or other loving sibling behaviors.

Father's Day weekend we took a trip to ride the train at Snoqualmie. The kids had fun playing on some of the train cars.

As you can see, Camden enjoyed the train ride so much he had to create a new facial expression to show the extreme happiness involved. Maybe this will be next year's school picture face.
Shelby told everyone about the "wah wah" as we looked down over Snoqualmie Falls.
To finish off Father's Day weekend, Matt, Camden, Mark and Maggie got to go to a Mariners game. It was hat day for the kids.
Later on, it was a good time playing "nap time" on the floor. Shelby got right in there and made sure she was part of the fun.