Update from where I left off! (with lots of pictures!)

 Wednesday night was great. Peter and Sarah came, their friends Amanda and Russ came, Ben came, Ryan came, Hilary and Karl came, our friends, The Beckers, came and we all had a barbeque!

After dinner, we all played croquet!

Maren and Ryan

After that, we did sparklers! Yay! And then we went and watched the end of the fireworks in the bay in Fairhaven. 

I like this picture. It was an accident, but I like the abstract view of it.

Sarah and I

I loooooove sparklers! :)

At the bay

On Thursday morning after swim team, Mom and I went to pick up our family friend, Audrey Wood, from the Bellingham airport! She is around 23. I keep thinking she's my cousin, but we're actually not related to us at all, they're just good family friends of us, my grandparents and my aunts, uncles and cousins. So they really are good family friends. :) The Woods live on a farm in Nebraska.

 She is here to take some training from my Dad in Veterinary work. She is training to be a vet.

Since Dad didn't have tons of work to supervise yesterday, Audrey, Julie, Maren, Mom, Auntie Kathy and I all went strawberry picking! It was soo fun!  (and the berries are sooo yummy!)

Mt. Baker was beautiful and so clear!

Red strawberry hands! :)

 After we were done picking, Mallory came because it was her birthday yesterday! She is now 13!! (that makes me feel old...)

Mallory, Audrey, Julie, Maren and I all went and saw the movie "Brave" together in theaters! It was really great. I loved it!

After that, since Maren is housesitting this week, we went to our friends, The Johnsons, house and stayed there overnight.

We went in the hot tub...

...played ukulele...

...smiled (and knitted too in Audrey's case)...

...and ate enchiladas!!

We also had really yummy root beer floats! :)

This morning, we woke up and got ready to go to a family birthday celebration for Mallory at IHOP.

Waking up...and Mallory's hair. :)

Mallory got red velvet pancakes

Mom, Julie and Audrey

birthday hugs!

Auntie Kathy, Mallory, Uncle Chris (not really related) and Gramma Jo

 When we got home, Isaac was home from boyscout camp!!!!!!! YYYAAAAAYYYY!!!!!! We missed him a lot! the house is really really quiet when he's gone...

So now we're back and just chillin'. I'm really tired and Dad and Isaac already fell asleep and started snoring...