Reunion in Port Orchard

This week has been really fun. We were able to spend one last week in the town we "grew up" in at a old mobile home my parents recently sold. We had everyone there except Michelle and Dallin who sadly were in Michigan on an Engineering internship at Dow. Lisa and Ikaika came from Phoenix and Carrie and Travis came from Utah to join us. On Sunday we were able to go to our old ward and we had fun running into old friends. Monday we went to Mullenix Ridge Elementary School and we were able to hang out with Sarah Hill Serad and her kids.

Eli is so happy!

Cannon and Cole were instant friends just like their Mommy's were nearly 25 years ago. When did we get that old? At family home evening Monday night we enjoyed talents from Sterling, Hana, Lydia, George, Samuel and then Mom and Dad who announced in song form that they will be serving a part time local mission in the Tricities! 

Tuesday we went to Jackson Lund park and Jake and I were able to go bike riding on some awesome trails.

Then we spent the afternoon at Long Lake, the boys LOVED it!

Wednesday we went to Manchester State Park and enjoyed the low tide. Afterwards we went to the pier where we spotted lots of fish and jellyfish. The evening was spent around the campfire, much to Cannon's delight! 

Thursday we packed up and then headed to Bremerton's USS Turner Joy which we toured.

Next we boarded a Ferry to Seattle...

In Seattle we enjoyed the Aquarium before we headed home. 

All in all it has been wonderful! We love this family. 

Grandma, Grandpa and the grand kids. 

 

Note to mom

Cannon left this on the door for me, cutest love note I've ever seen, can you tell what it reads? 

Aiiiluuiveyou. 

Quiet house

Thank you Mom and Dad for keeping the kids for two days this week! Jake and I felt like newly weds again without kids tagging along. We went to the temple and to a delicious dinner at our favorite hole-in-the-wall Shang Hi. Then we were able to get some projects done around the house, albeit some were more exciting than others. One thing I got Jake to help me with is to hang this gallery above the couch and I am so happy with how it turned out. Take a look....

While we were working on hanging I was on the couch and lost my balance. I stepped back off the couch and although I landed on my foot, I also landed on a hard plastic toy bridge which gave me a good gash. When my Mom (the surgical nurse) looked at it she promptly got steri strips to take care of it. Luckily, the cut is on the arch of my foot so I can hobble around pretty good. It just kinda stinks, I am hoping and praying that it heals by the time we are scheduled to do a 30 miler in the Enchantments in September!

Anyhow, to finish off our dates we got to go shopping for some hiking boots for Jake and then to the Orion cinema and do dinner and a movie. What fun! 

Mt Saint Helen's

Wow! What an amazing time we had last week with my brother David and his family. David is the ultimate camping/outdoors guru and it was just delightful to follow him and his family around hiking and exploring Lava canyon, Ape cave and Windy Ridge. It was my first time seeing Mt St Helen's eruption zone and it was simply amazing. 

Iron man teeth

Well, we did it. George has a new tooth and it is his Ironman tooth since it is silver. I am happy to say we made it through not eating breakfast, sedation meds, keeping our mouth busy so we didn't chew off our numb lip, not being able to walk because we had medicine and finally sleeping everything off. Luckily, he did not need a root canal which the dentist had warned us might happen. It was pretty painless...just tiring. I did get one thing on my to do list done today...I hung up the pictures I've been working on...ta da! 

Canning

Feeling accomplished today. Got my first batch of pinto beans canned with the help of Nikki and then hung the sign I re-painted! 

Hooray for getting projects done! 

Happy 4th

Eli loves watermelon!!!