Happy Birthday Hunter

Every year my kids have a birthday I say I can't believe they are a year older, so I can't believe Hunter is nine already.  Hunter had a great birthday today.  He got to go into Bellingham and shop a little, go to the Olive Garden for lunch, had a friend come play in the sprinkler and then come to Red Robin with us, after which we went to the dollar tree and all the kids got to pick out one thing, came home to have a bowl of coldstone, and then opened presents...spoiled rotten right.  Hunter had a good year.  He does well in school and is very well behaved (we are trying to get him to be the same at home).  He bugs the girls a lot, but I honestly don't know what they would do all day if he weren't bugging them.  Hunter is one of the most thoughtful, giving persons I know.  Happy Birthday Bud!

Busy, busy

Well school has been out for over three weeks now and we have done a lot! Here's the list... Three basketball camps 3 trips to Lake Whatcom (the weather went downhill as soon as we got there every single time) Fairhaven spray park Seattle for a baby blessing Utah for a wedding Practices for Lexi and Hunter's 3 on 3 teams Chuck E Cheese Lynden city park Cub scout camp My 14th wedding anniversary, which is today, it was tough, but we made it through that 13th year :) We have been so busy, but we are having a blast, hope you are too.

No more...

-making lunches
-helping with homework
-volunteering in classrooms
-field trips
-huge reports
-fighting Karlee to get ready for school
-backpacks laying all over my house
-papers thrown everywhere


What time is it?
Summertime
It's their vacation
What time is it?
Party time
That's right, say it loud


What time is it?
The time of our lives
Anticipation
What time is it?
Summertime
School's out, scream and shout!

You know that it was a long weekend when...

Both kids are asleep before 11:00 am.

Need a dessert for father's day?

Last week Lexi, Hunter, Karlee, and I all helped my nieces and nephews 4H group make over two hundred dozen smooches (moowiches).  If anyone is interested in buying these yummy ice cream chocolate chip cookie sandwiches $14 for a dozen let me know.

Not a fan of change

Why does everyone think they need to change things on the Internet.  First my email changes the setup.  I really didn't feel like there was anything wrong with the old way, so it takes me forever to figure it out and get used to it.  Then my online banking changes their format.  Not happy.  Again it takes time to get used to the new setup.  I will admit I am not smarter than a fifth grader when it comes to computers.  And now to top it off blogger has changed  how they do things.  I like simple.  I don't like change.  I just got an email saying they are changing my email set up again.  You're killing me people.

for my own defense

OK so what happened with my pictures is that the memory card was in the computer and I was loading pictures on my blog awhile ago.  Anyway one of the kids must have bumped it (of course it was not me) and the prongs in the computer got bent, so something weird happened and the pictures on the memory card disappeared.  I go online and look up a memory recovery site called cardrecovery.com and I can find the pictures on there, but they want $40 for the software and that seems a little high, so that is when I thought there has to be someone out there who has done this and I can either borrow it from them or go to there house and use it, but then I was violently attacked and made fun of for not backing up my computer, which is clearly not the problem :) So can anyone save me $40?