whew!! i have a lot of photos to blog. We've had glorious weather here, so we've been outside as much as possible!! i would have paired these photos down a bit, but i figured my parents haven't seen their babies in 6 months, and still have 2 months to go... so... why not post a lot? ;)
this is thursday after school

i can't imagine how big those trees must look to them.

playing with daddy's racquets
more flowers have bloomed
love the light
that night, adam BBQ'd. we made homemade burgers with cheddar, gouda, avocado, and then other little things separate to our tastes. i had tomato, he had cajun seasonings or something like that. we also grilled corn (not seen, as i ate it before my burger was ready! hehe). YUM. our favorite. i topped it off with lemonade.
so, as we were putting the kids to bed, i saw this on ashlyn's window. i thought it was so funny. who knows what the storyline was there!
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yesterday, my friend angela and i went down to the beach. ashlyn was in school, which is why you will only see ben here! it was a beautiful day, and it was a cool location b/c you could see the mtn range and Mt. rainer in full view to our right. i didn't really get a photo of it, though. it was super warm, and it was nice for a slight marine layer to come over us... gave us a break from the beating sun, but it still stayed really nice. ben had such a blast. he threw rocks in the water, he watched the little waves roll in and out, he went in and out of the maze of logs that have washed up on the shore, and he even joined in with some college guys in a game of frisbee :) they were so nice to him. they would talk to him, let him retrieve their frisbee, and one guy even got down to his level and showed him how to throw. ben still threw it backward. lol. i didn't get a picture of that. i think my camera was away at that point.
i thought this was cool. a sailboat, a ferry, and a fishing boat. these waters get a lot of traffic in nice weather!
i love him. puff-ball hair and all. :)
i met angela when i was in 3rd grade, when her family still lived in san diego. Her sister and i were friends, and i remember walking angela to her classroom when she was a 1st grader. That's almost ashlyn's age! Her family moved to washington when i was in the 7th grade. they are why i know gig harbor. i used to come visit every summer i could, and i fell more in love with it the older i got. It's such a strange thing to have ties to the past when you live so far from everyone you know and love. Her family is my second family.

mama, please stop taking my picture!!
look at the lines in the photo.... i love how the water and tree line match up perfectly.
by far, this was the coolest washed up branch.

i took some pics of angela's baby girl... she was so cute in her little dress!
beach beauty
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what to do when you want to cool off? run in sprinklers, of course!

i'm a sucker for sun-kissed faces!
Popsicles in the shade :)

hmmm. 48 photos in this blog. not too shabby. lol.