rachel's continued ramblings

sunday: micah, assisting gramma with a little pool maintenance. monday: hannah, layla, and dave, playing some cups before heading to the bay. also monday: giants game! wednesday: terrible movie theater selfie. i took micah and matthew to see despicable me 3, while everyone else went to see spiderman. also wednesday: hannah, learning to ripstick. no major catastrophes. saturday: it’s french toast day!!! cooked and cut to perfection by gramma laurie. also saturday: cousins swimming… also also saturday: cousins at the rivercats game. no lily, since she had strauss.

monday: layla had some youtube-inspired craft project going on and she needed bottle caps. so she went searching through the house. apparently, she couldn’t come up with enough empty bottles to steal the caps from. well, at least she left a note… right? tuesday: letitia and family in town, which means we squeezed in a mini-reunion! thursday: nolan, lisa, and aaron were briefly in town on the tail end of a trip to canada, so they stopped over. sadly, this is the only picture i took. we had a great time. even when nolan broke the toilet. also thursday: mega-rips. friday: it’s my birthday!!! so, spud it is! layla threw seaweed on me, so i chased her with a crab claw. my gifts/card from dave. my dad got me bowling shoes! rental bowling shoes! except they’re new. and they belong to me! saturday: hitting the road, early in the morning, heading for california! shasta sighting.

sunday: on our way home from church, we spotted this mama raccoon and her baby down the street from our house. SO cute! mama was not super happy about us looking at them and quickly ran over and put her arms around her baby. adorable. also sunday: micah had added some interesting ideas to our summer “to-do” list. this accomplished 2 of them. we walked exactly 4 miles on the trail with bonez. (also, balloons!) monday: aquasox game! another summer list item checked off. (it was FREEZING!) also monday: layla’s last day to be 11. tuesday: and she’s 12!! she had a fun day. starting with picking up a couple of friends and hitting 7-11 for free slurpees. then she helped bake her birthday apple pie, got a new leotard to wear to gymnastics, where she shared cookies with all her teammates. then home to have ribs for dinner, gifts, and pie with ice cream. also tuesday: shane’s last day to be 17. this was pretty significant, as it was his last day of “childhood”. (i may or may not have been quite ...

monday: another week of kids bowl free! tuesday: layla marching in the bothell 4th of july parade with the gym. and a whole bunch of pics from our party. corn hole tournament. the winner of the corn hole tournament, AKA “the great cornholio”. fireworks. finishing off the pyrotechnic portion of the evening with sparklers for all the kids. wednesday: bonez needed a day to recover from the party. thursday: hike with kids and dog at paradise valley. saturday: we had to get dave this shirt. LOL! also saturday: date night in snohomish.

first week of summer!!! sunday: it’s “fun sunday”! after church, we had lunch at MOD, then went mini-golfing. it was fun, but WAY hot. we were melting into the astroturf. more fun sunday. we grabbed shane (who had been at work all day) and hit the theater to see cars 3! we had all been looking forward to its release. now i’ve seen all 3 in the theater with shane, who was 5 when the first one came out! monday: leaving to take micah to cub scout day camp and we spot THIS! balloon was landing in a vacant lot just under the freeway. so we totally had to pull over and watch. tuesday: second day of day camp. i wound up being a volunteer for the rest of the week, so i got to take some pictures. archery is always a favorite, but they also made “rovers” out of old computer parts, and since the theme was “bug hunters”, they had a tent full of ladybugs for them to go in and explore. micah would have stayed there all day. wednesday: layla’s newest instrument arrived! we are borrowing a saxophone s...