Gift Wrapper

I sent the kids upstairs to wrap two gifts for birthday parties this weekend. It's been a while since I made Christian wrap a gift, so I was surprised (and delighted! haha) when he returned with these final products:

I dare say these are the most finely wrapped gifts in the history of any 4th grade boy. I mean....they're perfect. Totally cracks me up!

Seattle for the remainder of Memorial Day weekend

We then completed our Pacific Northwest circuit with a trip to Seattle. Cousin Laura and Lisa were visiting Seattle so we managed to spend about 4 hours with them on Sunday morning which was great. We tried Ghost Alley coffee and took them to Crumpet Shop. We also strolled through the Market and picked up some organic face balm for me and Aunt May.

Photo booth in the Magic Store. Only in the 2nd photo can you see Dae's eye and the top of Christian's head.

This juggler in the back was really talented.

Peony season - my favorite! This bouquet was a splurge at $30 at Pike Place.

Pacific City for Memorial Day

We picked up the kids from Camp Meriwether on Wednesday and traveled 15 minutes north to Pacific City, where my friend Heather's parents have a house. Three families stayed in Pacific City 3 nights and had a nice time eating, talking, clamming, tide pooling....

Duffy Family (daughter is AJ), Hoins family (daughter Ursula) and Lee Family

Bill, Erik, Dae

Forgot to bring rain boots for clamming and borrowed Heather's mom's pink boots! hahahaha!

Amy and Erik were quite good at clamming. Erik even got our sole geoduck

Sand Surfing. It was surprisingly slow going down this relatively steep hill.

The little sled went pretty fast

All the adults tried too.

Outside the RV park central store where we got everything (small groceries, root beers, rental sand surfboards)

Clamming. Quite fun, and we got so many clams. We had to stop once we had about 100 total, after about 45 minutes of clamming. The area was extremely muddy - we were all filthy when we trekked back. And if you weren't careful you'd get stuck in the mud like quicksand! 

The clam gun was effective, but every time Dae pulled it up he managed to kill clams in the process :(

Tidepooling. Some good sized starfish!

Olin's sand crab friend

Yummy s'mores

All the kids tried their hand at shucking oysters - successfully!

Both kids tried oysters. They didn't hate them!

Pretty jellyfish

Camp Meriwether Pictures

Our chaperones and friends have been sending some nice pictures from camp. I am enjoying them thoroughly! And in my time off today and yesterday I have been pressure washing every outside walkway, patio, driveway, garage. It has been very gratifying.

Squid dissection

Lunch on the beach!

Olin in the corner behind camp counselor

throwing an addle addle

Record Book

I've never looked thoroughly through the kids' record books until this past week when I was doing more organizing and recycling and came across some of Olin's hilarious entries from this year.

I nitt means I knit. In later entries he changes it to "knitt" so someone must have alerted him to the K

Funniest entries are 11:30: i do spelling it was group two and i feel like i can get sixteen out of sixteen and i did for my first time yay
12:00: i eat a rilly rilly rilly good lunch and im rilly rilly rilly hungry
12:30: He spells Joaquin "whaceen"

The 80's (and late 90's)

I came across these photos while I was organizing. I call this one Large round head, and excited about these salt water taffies

Again, large head

I told Dae the lighting on this photo was excellent. ha! But quite fun that he was standing in front of Olin Hall.