Summer..it's going FAST!!

An update about the park!! Shortly after the City Council meeting.. 2 picnic tables, a garbage can and slow children at play signs appeared in our park!! Wow!! Talk about fast!


We hope that before winter we'll have the other stuff they promised us too!

It's been a week since I've updated, but we haven't done much around here. Brett is playing in the club championship this weekend, if he finishes in the top 12 he'll play next weekend as well :) Here's hoping for a top 12 finish! :)

The rest of summer promises to be packed with stuff to do! Wednesday, the girls and I along with the rest of the car load of Girl Scouts take off to Silverwood to play. We'll spend the night at the GS hostel and return the next day :) Karina takes her quilting class the first full week in August. We're going to the lake with the Headleys that weekend. Then it's time for Brett to start back to work (if the building is done enough.. remodeling is going a litttle slow!) ahhh stop this crazy train :) hee hee

Also have a back to school, check up on mom trip planned after the 15th of August..

8 years ago....

I was coming home from the Othello hospital with my baldheaded little pink bundle of joy! Here she is.. I'm thinking about 4 weeks old here.. didn't have any baby ones scanned (hmm better do that)
To her birthday yesterday...

They grow up way too fast!! We had fun at the pool party! Lots of friends and fun!! A few pictures to share!



There are many more pictures but I won't bore ya to death!!
Well off to try and finish up my Harry Potter book!

I'm "bug" sitting

When Randy called and asked if we would be around for awhile so we could "bug" sit, I had to say yes, since we've done all our running around already for July! :) So today he gets to our house with two 10 gallon fish tanks. Filled with WALKING STICKS!! One fish tank has just the regular walking sticks in it... last count about 20 minutes ago was around 20 of em in there! The other slightly larger tank has the Australian walking sticks in it (male and female)! plus a few regular walking sticks! Let me tell ya the Australian ones are FuNkY!! They are huge as in about 4 inches in length and "ugly"! see for yourself! The skinny one is the male (who has wings and WILL fly! eek!) the fat one is a female!

I'm not much of a bug person..but we do personally own two of the walking sticks thanks to Randy.. Also in our "care" is two petri dishes of eggs from the Australian walking sticks. I'm really hoping they don't hatch while in our care! eek!!

On to more important things! I'm so proud of Ana and her friend Leanne! They have been working on ideas to improve the little park where we live for over a year now. Well last night they were on the agenda to address the city council. They had it all put together! Pictures of the current stuff in the park. A speech all written out with Ana and Leanne taking turns reading it. It had a list of things they wanted to see. More swings, garbage can, drinking fountain, merry go round, picnic table (preferably covered), a better slide that isn't so dangerous etc. Also asked them to install children at play signs to hopefully slow down some of the "speedy" traffic on our hill. The mayor seemed quite impressed at how well they were prepared and such. We found out that some of the things they requested could probably be done with little or no expense to the city! Such as they have a surplus merry go round that they could install! fun! Also the mayor discussed that this is the year for grants and maybe they(the city) could write a grant to fund some of the improvements. All in all is was a great experience for the girls. I'm so proud of them I'm about to burst! Especially since I had little or nothing to do with the writing or such.. just support! I was even gone for technical support and Jill had to help them print the pictures to show the council! (thanks Jill!) Check out the cute pictures of all the kids who went to support each other in this adventure! Hopefully we can see some results here soon!


I'll leave with a little reminder of Karina's birthday bash on Sunday! It's a family gathering so bring all the siblings, mom, and dad and join us in our 2 hour rental of the pool! Don't forget to bring your floaties or pool toys! After swimming Brett is going to BBQ a few dogs or such in the little covered area by the pool followed by cake!! :) Can't believe she'll be EIGHT!

Allison Krauss and Union Station!

Thanks to Jill for mentioning that Allison Krauss was going to be in Spokane! With ebay's help.. Brett and I got tickets... 2nd row.. center stage! We were within 20 feet of Allison and her band as they played for 2 hours straight! Cameras weren't allowed..but at the end I had to sneak mine out and try to get a picture.. I got a blurry mass.. see Allison is the one in black in the middle! Hee hee

This was our gift to each other for our 13th wedding anniversary! We went out to dinner with our friends Dale and Monica at Clinkerdager's in Spokane.. I had the yummiest prime rib!! Here is a self portrait of Brett and I waiting for our friends!

hmm wonder where Karina gets her self portraits! She had a great time at camp and we developed her pictures.. 50% were self portraits! the other 20% were of her thumb!


Ana had fun @ camp but she's not sure she wants to go back next year! all I know is that the phone has NOT quit ringing since she woke up this morning!! Brett and I finally quit answering it if we say the # was one of her friends and she was out and about and not able to answer the phone! I know, I know this has only just begun!!

I've been playing with my macro setting on my camera..still not sure why it doesn't allow focus like it's suppose to..but I did get a few pictures of the honeybees hanging out at my mil's flowers...:)


Are you bored yet??? The girls and Brett are going to hold the home front down while I drive down(over?) to see my mom and dad! It's suppose to be hot, hot, hot!! and I'm crazy to drive again!! Since I changed my oil in the expedition on June 7th, I've (we've) put on 3,000 miles on the car!! I hope it holds out!!! We had to take it back in to the shop because on the way to the concert on Sunday the service engine soon light came on! After quickly grabbing the owners manuel, we decided since it wasn't flashing we were okay! It's a little emissions thing that has to be replaced... go figure it's not covered under our extended warranty *sigh* Brett was talking today that we might have to think about trading it in. I feel bad...it's suppose to be his turn for a new car!! This would be car #3 for me...but **knock on wood** his truck has been very reliable!

I'll update this weekend :) maybe :) Last photo.. a beautiful sunset on the way home last night... we were just out of Grand Coulee heading home...

Hope you had a safe 4th of July!

We had a great day! Went to our friends house for the annual 4th of July bash! Good food, good friends and the annual Grudge Croquet game. Lots of fun.. but no close 2nd finish for Brett this year. Theresa won again this year, even with the darn water hazard!

When it got dark we all retired to our house for the firework finale! We had gotten some fireworks yesterday and Streeters had some too! All the kids did sparklers and had a blast.. though I don't think they last as long as they did when I was a kid!


Since we can't have the high shooting fireworks (illegal) we did lots of fountains! This one lasted about 4 minutes total! Everyone ohhh and ahhh ed at the appropriate times :)


I'll leave ya today with a picture I took while driving to pick Karina up last Saturday. Yes, I was keeping my eyes on the road... I just put the camera on the middle section and pressed the button and hoped for the best! Buster has become quite the car riding doggy this summer... he's logged well over a 1000 miles with us just since school got out! and we head back up again on Friday to pick up Ana @ camp!

Oh and check this out!! You can this ezine @ SBB for $5.00! It has 90 pages of ideas and stuff for you digi scrapper friends of mine!! You'll even see a layout I did for the ezine in there!! check it out!