For those who are less computer savy...

I am not sure that all who looks at my blog are aware of the flickr that I post has a nice little feature that allows you to see our pics in full screen and also allows you to see the description of the pics. So if you click on the play button on the post below it will play a slide show, in the bottom right there is a box with arrows. If you click on this it will enlarge the pics to full screen during the slide show. Then on the upper right there is a box that says "show info" if you click on that you can see my description of the picture in the upper right corner! Pretty slick huh?

Camping Trip August 2009 Sequim Wa

We had a nice time camping this week. We left on Sunday and got back Wed. It was spur of the moment, but worked out well and we had a lot of fun. We went to Sequim Bay Campground and drove out to some local short hikes with some really grand scenery. Unfortunately I forgot the regular camers, so these are taken off of Steve's phone, which works okay in a pinch.



Since I didn't get as great as photos as I would have liked, here are some other pics on the web of the places we went:

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/pugetsound/bluffs/dungeness.html

http://www.northolympic.com/capeflatterytrail/

http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np.olympic.5.html

http://www.nps.gov/olym/photosmultimedia/hurricane-ridge-webcam.htm

It's a girl thing!

Nicole and I went out this morning and got a pedicure. It was a lot of fun. We went by 7 eleven and got me a coffee, and she got a slurpee for our beverage while we pampered ourselves. Nicole said that it tickled her feet, and the chair was tickelly too, it was one of those massage chairs. She was a little worried at first because of having her toenails cut, she doesn't let me get near her, does it herself these days with some little scissors we have. But she was brave and enjoyed her little massage. We picked purple (my favorite color) and green (Nicole's favorite color) and then we both got flowers. They look pretty cute. It was a cool mommy and daughter thing to do!

Rainiers Baseball Revisited

Rainiers Baseball

We went to a Rainiers baseball game last night. It is a minor league baseball team here in Tacoma that is a farm team for the Mariners. It was another spur of the moment deal and at a great price. It was Good Samaritan night and the Children's Treatment Unit where we take the kids for speech therapy was given a bunch of tickets for a party deck that was catered. It cost seven dollars each for the whole schmeal. We got to go down on the baseball field with some other CTU families and kids and was there during the National Anthem. It was a accapella group that was amazing. The kids even got some squishy baseballs too! The weather was very nice, warm but not hot and you could see Mount Rainier floating in the distance from our seats. We even got to see one of the Rainiers hit a Grand Slam! It could not have been a better night!

An exceptionally fun day

I am officially on my vacation. I have 12 days off, and really don't have any firm plans. This is very unusual, as I usually head home to Oklahoma when I am on vacation, but with my work schedule I am getting more vacation this year. I get to take four weekends off a year, and since I am only scheduled to work every weekends, when you take off a weekend I get 12 days off in a row! So this time we have not made any plans to go to OK, and no one is coming here, so we are going to have some fun being spur of the moment. So, today our friend next door Aunt asked if we would like to go play with them, they were headed out for some swimming and then horse back riding! How could we say no? Unfortunately we didn't have the camera out for the swimming at the lake. It was at Lake Steilacoom on a deck out back of my neighbor's friends beautiful home, the kids went nuts in the water for about an hour and half with four new friends. I sat on the deck and dangled my feet. I am not a fan of cold water, so luckily my neighbor was more than happy to swim with the kids. Next we went out to where our neighbor's Aunt lives, it is on an acreage with horses, and an amazing, and I mean AMAZING tree house and other great things to play on like a beautiful covered porch and an unattached apartment over the garage. It was absolutely a wonderfully fun day! And this is only day number two! Can't wait to see what other things we can come up with to fill these twelve day!!

The Caped Crusaders

We will be having a Batman birthday party for Andrew. I went to the party store the other day to get some things, and found these cool masks. Now we are tearing up the neighborhood as the "Caped Crusaders". Our little friends down the street wanted to dress up too, they will get their masks at the birthday party, but some black trash bags really worked well for some capes. Our neighborhood is much safer now, as you can imagine!

Sweet Dreams

It's Berry Season! Yummy!!!

SEAN'O'Sea

I have posted a link of Steve's blog he started. We have a sail boat that he has been refurbishing for the last three years. It was supposed to be a one year project, but you know how those things can go. This summer things have really sped up as far as him getting out there to work on it. And our plan/goal/hope/wish/dream... is to have the boat in the water by our 20th anniversary this next April 21 2010. The boat is called "SEAN O'Sea" : "Steve, Earline, Andrew and Nicole of the See" in nonboat speak. Pretty cool huh? Check out his blog to keep an eye on the progress. It is to the right of this blog under "My Blog List".

Andrew's first ER visit

Yesturday Andrew decided to borrow our neighbor's bicycle and ride it down the street. I guess that must be what happened, a different bike that handled a bit differently? Also a car parked on a side of the street that is usually never has a car parked. Anyways, apparently ran his bike into a parked car. I was sitting on the porch, heard a blood curdling scream and went out to see what was up. Andrew was coming up with our neighbor and had a pretty impressive bloody lip and after getting cleaned up it looked like he had poked a tooth right through his lip. Steve took Andrew to the ER and I stayed home with Nicole. Three hours later turns out it was two seperate cuts one on the inside, one on the outside, so not a through and through like I had thought. Luckily it was only a glue job and not actually stitches like I had anticipated. So here he is about 24 hours out from his crash. I am so glad he didn't get hurt worse. Steve says this is probably the first of many trips to the ER. He can't really remember how many times he has had stitches in his life. So I guess this is part of being a mom to a 100% all boy. Sigh.

Baby Birdies

We have a little bird house that hangs just off our front porch. We have had babies in there off and on throughout the years, this year we have had two sets so far, this is the second set. The last one is me putting the camera right up to the birdhouse and apparently this little guy thought I was mama. No worms for him, but one very cute picture for us. We have had fun watching these guys.

Summer Time Fun

I wanted to post some pictures that I have taken lately. First is Nicole and her first lost tooth! Isn't she just beautiful? She has since lost her second tooth, the other bottom middle tooth. She is feeling pretty grown up these days. She lost her first one before her birthday, so is young like Andrew. He says he has lost eight, I am not quite sure, I think more like six so far.

For Nicole's birthday Grandma Loretta sent some really cute clothes for Nicole, one was this really beautiful dress. Grandma has asked for pics, and this was the best I could get out of the little hams. Have I mentioned geting pics these days is like hearding cats? I think I have mentioned this before...

We have a new hammock we have hung out in the back yard under our fir trees. It has been a lot of fun so far. If you sit sideways in it you can get five or six kids on it like a swing. I know, I have seen them do it.

Happy Birthday Nicole!

Well, it has been a week since Nicole's birthday party. It has been absolutely ungodly hot here in the Northwest, and I have just not been able to sit out of the airconditioner after the kids go to bed long enough to get these pics up. We got an airconditioner for our master suite this year, as I am working night shift and needing to sleep during the day. We have had it for a little over a month, and I am so glad we got it!!! We have really enjoyed it with the temperature getting up to an all time record of 104 this last week!!! So, now the temperatures are headed down, we were in the ninties today, but headed for the 80's and even mid 70's with a chance of rain before the week is up! Thank God!!!

So anyways, here are the pics of Nicole's Birthday party. This is the first year Nicole had her very own party, and we will be having another party for Andrew in September. We had a My Little Pony/butterfly/unicorn/girly/curly party that also included a slip and slide and about 15 kids from our neighborhood and friends from my work and church. I made the pinatta again, the unicorn head pieces with tails and the cakes too. The butterfly cake was a rainbow cake, so when you cut in to it it was pink, blue and green. I was pleased with how it all turned out. Hope you enjoy!