So we finished up school and celebrated with a shindig at the house. 70 kids, 20 moms and lots of silly string! We had a blast!
Then we camped at Fort Stevens for Jeff's 13th Birthday!! Wow! I have a teenager. SCARY! I honestly am more afraid of teenagers than I am of turning 40 this year. Terrifying! But so far he is an awesome kid. Super helpful and patient with the kids. He got a GPS for his b-day and we geocached all over Fort Stevens. We rode 8 miles one day going to one or the other. It was also Daisy's first camping trip and she loved it.
Jack learned to ride his bike without training wheels. It went like this.
Ben "Jack do you want to take off your training wheels?"
Jack "Yes"
Take off training wheels.
Helmet on!!
Ben "Ok Jack, ride."
He did and never turned back. No coaching, no hanging on to steady, no wobbles, just off he went. CLASSIC! He was very proud!
Molly learned to ride a bike the same weekend, just with training wheels.
Ben & I spent a night at an adorable inn in Nehalem for our 15 1/2 anniversary. We never got around to celebrating it in December. It was a nice, quick, fun 24 hour getaway. It's like a marriage reset button. Really does wonders. We highly recommend dinner and room at Nehalem River Inn and Wanda's for breakfast, walk on the beach in Manzanita. Ahhhh . . .
Well we came home from the getaway to a warm rare 80 degree day, so we took the boat out for the first time this season. Water was cold, but not cold enough to deter the kids from tubing. Jack got bounced off (while I drove unfortunately) and broke his collar bone. Fun times in the ER. We took it out again on Monday and Jeff broke his thumb. So far, so good with the boating adventures this year. Everyone is healing fine and off drugs.
We had a great 4th of July! We all ran the 5K before the Hillsboro parade. Enjoyed the parade! Love our frisbees! Went boating with little success (way too busy). Then headed to the Merritt's for rockin' BBQ and firework show. Thank you Merritt's and Rhobocks! and to Rebecca Reynolds for those delicious cookies. Wow!
I don't know how many times Ben and I have said this year, "I LOVE SUMMER". We don't get much of it, so we enjoy every drop of sun we can get. SUMMER!!!!
