Visiting my parents

The kids and I spent two weeks up in Washington visiting my parents.
My dad showed me how he makes his super good hamburgers (he adds barbique sauce, oatmeal and an egg) and my mom loved doing Ginger's hair each mornging. (This is the first time Ginger has had braids..her hair is finally long enough for them)

The first thing we all did was ride the mini train in Port Orchard. It runs every saturday and is free to the public. One ride lasts about ten minutes so we went a couple times. I thought it was really fun. I would have loved to ride it all day.
During the week we played a really fun game called Quidller. If you like scrabble, you'll love quiddler.

The last thing we did was go to the game farm up in Sequim. We ate at the Lavendar farm where they served lavendar lemonade and some very unique dishes. The Game Farm was fun. We would put bread in the window and let the animals come up and eat it from the window. (we had to go through the car wash afterwards.) The farm looked a little run down though and the animals looked thirsty and lethargic. We both thought they were letting the place go with all the overgrown thistles. It wasn't quite as well maintained as had been years ago when I went.
Going there though makes me now want to go visit Wildlife Safari in Oregon. My aunt told me about it and it sounds really neat...again a place where you stay in your car and drive though acres of wildlife. There they really try to keep the animals wild. You can't feed them like you can in Sequim.

The two weeks was fun and as always went too fast. I miss walking with my mom in the mornings at the Cold Creek Trails and around the lake.
( at the cold creek trails they had a single bathroom that was closed up because some dork went in and shot the place with a million paint balls! So that left us searching for a spot along the trail to go inbetween other walkers or bikers passing us. We never got caught with our pants down but there were definately some close calls! hahahahh)

House Update!!

I'm so excited our house has come along this far already!! I love this color! Thanks to Kristi and Troy for painting our house while I was up in Washington!

I love our garden window! I'll show more pics of it later. It's neat because it has a shelf in the middle for plants.

Here is our 1,000 dollar door that we got off Craigs list for $150 bucks! Good job to Glen! I love this window.

Our 4th

We had a really nice weekend. It started with us celebrating that we had the house to ourselves this weekend by barbequing hamburgers and just having really good food all weekend. woohoo!
Saturday, we drove up Starkey and road our bikes 20 miles down to Hillgaurd. The weather was perfect and it was such a pretty ride!! We didn't want it to end. Jack and Ginger did really well together in the trailer. Ginger 'read' Jack stories and helped him with his binkie when it fell out.

Once we got to Hillgaurd, we hopped in the river to cool off and then Glen fired up the grill for Hot Dogs and S'mores! Yum!
( there was this lady there that just stared at us for a really long time and then finally asked me why I knew so much about her. I told her I didn't know anything about her. Then she asked my name (I didn't tell her my real name) and told us hers was Linda. It was kinda creepy the way she just stood like a soldier staring at us. We had seen her early on our bike ride up the mountain. She just stood and stared at us as we road past her. I think the lights were on but nobody was home or something.)

For our 4th of July dinner, we didn't do our traditional hamburgers, potoatoe salad, black berry pie etc. ( we did that sunday instead).
We were in the mood for Sushi! We made our own california rolls and salmon stacks! So GOOD!!! After that, we did some sparklers with Ginger. After the kids went to bed then Glen and I went back out to do a few more firecrackers. I think Glen's favorite part was chasing me with four lighted sparklers down our street in flip flops.

When Glen and I were dating, we did this very same thing for our 4th of July. It started with a bike ride (mountain biking) and then swimming and then fireworks.

Ride with your mouth Shut!

After putting the kids to bed last night, I went out on a bike ride. The warm fresh air and riding out in the country was wonderful except for the Flies! I was sure to spray bug spray all over before heading out but it seemed to have the opposite affect. It made those little buggers stick all over me! I came home with 27 flies stuck to me. The funny thing is that the majority of them stuck to my right arm! I felt several stick to my lips and many more hit my ears and chin.
I am now on the search for a face shield. I wish I had my old one from work. That would be perfect!

I swallowed two flies last Saturday when Glen let me go out riding while he watched the kids. It was great! It was the first time I've gone out on my bike without towing a trailer and kid since Ginger was born! Now I want to go every evening after kids are in bed. I am just loving this weather! now,, where can I get a face shield?