At the beginning of June the boys had their annual Cub Scout Packnick, or weekend campout at Valley Camp in North Bend. This is the first time Kieron & Avery were both in Scouts together, and they even brought their little brother along for the fun!
Those eyes!
With his buddy, Logan
My 4 boys
Salmonberries!
Here is some more of what we were up to in June. We had a number of visits to Bellingham before we closed on our house there. Here we are at Boundary Bay for lunch.
Avery finished up his spring basketball season
A little wrestling match
Funny story about these little bunnies. I was in the family room with our housekeeper, Yelena, when all of a sudden we saw the bushes in the backyard move. All of a sudden two little bunnies come darting out (clearly running from whatever was in the bushes, I’m guessing either a large cat or a bobcat). They leap off our retaining wall into the grass! Much to my surprise, Yelena runs to the back door, slides it open, and scoops up the startled bunnies. She then brings them INTO the house and asks for a box. She’s been wanting some bunnies to keep for pets because her cat recently gave birth to kittens, which she gave away, and her young son is heartbroken. She assures me she has cared for wild bunnies before, knows just what to do, and so I get her a box. Fast forward a month and they are doing well, live in a pretty fancy bunny house, and if you ask me, are pretty lucky little guys, considering they were almost someone’s lunch!
Layla going after the Nutella
On a hike
Avery & Hayden were science fair partners
For their project they wanted to see how balloons reacted when they were heated (in a hot car) or cooled (in the freezer).
Wii with Daddy
Layla inspects a frog
Sleeping baby photo!
Making music together. Boy, Silas needs a haircut!
Checking out the gutters
Making more music
In this pic Layla is dancing to The Beatles
Avery killing it in parkour!
Kieron with his 1st grade teacher, Ms. Tatum, the last week of school
This girl loves the water!
Playing at the park
Last day of 1st & 4th grade for these boys! I’m going to miss Hamza!
Layla loved rolling around on the shag rug after I sold the dining table
I was surprised when Kieron asked to do horse camp this summer. Dogs make him pretty nervous, but he insisted he wanted to learn to ride. So we gave it a try, and he LOVED it!
Here he is with his horse for the week – Pie.
With my Dad on one of his visits
Love this romper on Layla. Aunt Joyce had the best taste in clothes and always picked out cute outfits for the kids.
Another day, another park. Layla discovered slides.
Avery making eggs for my 16th birthday
Last day of Camp Invention. Kieron said it was bright out.
At the end of our trip we went out for dinner on Uncle Brad’s boat, Galatea. We had a great time visiting and telling stories while the boys explored the trawler and played hide-and-seek.
Thanks to Avery, here are a couple pictures of all the adults.
Heading out there on another boat
This girl knows her music! She loved dancing to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young!
Pre-dinner cocktail
Meanwhile, in the galley…
The stern of the boat made a perfect playpen for little Layla.
Grillin’
So much fun in the little cabins when you’re a kid!
“I’m the captain!”
“No, I’m the captain!”
These boys melt my heart. Here they are deep in a chess game. (Kieron won this one!)
Silas taking his snack upstairs
The boys were sure they wanted a picture together, Layla, not so much.
These are from an earlier trip on Galatea
One afternoon we met Uncle Brad, Aunt Julie, and Uncle Brian at the college and sailed to Balboa Island. We took the boys to the Fun Zone for some good old fashioned arcade fun and ate delicious ice cream. We had such a fun day!
The boys loved sailing and looking at all the sites on the water. Layla seemed to enjoy it too. She liked playing with the lines and reaching out for the water.
The trip back was a memorable one. It was a bit cooler by then, and Layla was t-i-r-e-d. She was wailing and we were going into the wind, tacking back and forth. Uncle Brad would say “tack the baby”, I’d leap across with her screaming on my lap, and then everyone else would switch sides and we would tack. In between I tried to calm her with some songs, but she was just over it. Eventually we made it back though and got her to sleep!
We startled a couple of pesky seals
At the Fun Zone
This girl LOVED her ice cream!
Wow, looking at all the smiles in these pictures reminds me how much fun we had at California Adventure. Cars town was pretty awesome, and Kieron was excited to do the bakery tour. Silas loved meeting all the characters. We stayed all day and had a great time!
“Oh my God!” It’s Woody & Jessie!”
Is that a happy face or what?!
“Do I have something on my face?”
