The Seamstress and a good example

Aurora attends a sewing class every Thursday. Here she is showing off one of her finished products. She has absolutely loved the class and is the sewer extraordinaire now. Some of her finished products are a pin cushion, a sewing bag, a stuffed pumpkin, a pillow case and she is currently working on pajama bottoms.

If you can't read it, the band on her hat says, "I can be a good example." Avery promptly changes her clothes after church every week. (heaven forbid she stay in a dress any longer than necessary) This week in her Sunbeams class they talked about being good examples. She cracked me up how she gently placed her headband on top of her favorite hat. She wears her favorite blue hat non-stop. It finally became "lost" for a few weeks!

A fiesty little player

Soccer girls

Myah is a hustler! She will run and run and run. Where she lacks in aggression, she makes up in her ability to run. She loves the social aspect of the sport and I love that the excercise partially wears my kids out.

If you can't tell Aurora is overheating! She had a game in Vernonia a couple of weeks ago and they played like crazy. Six kids showed up which is enough to play, but no subs. Compounding on that problem, it was about 92 that day. Her whole team did a great job, but lost the battle!

Venus Fly Trap

Dave brought home a carnivorous surprise for the girls today! We couldn't wait to capture the lone fly in our house and feed it to our Venus Fly Trap. Myah ran around with a dish towel trying to swat the fly and she finally killed it. Dave then picked the fly up with the chopsticks leftover from our takeout sushi and quickly the Venus Fly trap clamped down on the fly. This is what you call fabulous Friday night entertainment! The girls were on a mission to find any more insects in our house to feed to our new pet.

Glaicier Park

So I think Dave is jinxed! Almost every time we have been to Glacier, it has been horribly bad weather. This trip was no exception. We drove up to the top of Glacier, Logan Pass, and it was about 43 degrees and raining like crazy. We took the kids on the trail of the Cedars and that was pretty fun, but very wet. We let Avery go home with Grandpa and Grandma and then enjoyed a partial hike into Hidden Lake.

My third and second graders

Here we are-first day of school! Aurora and Myah were both giddy at home before the first day of school. I really enjoyed listening to them talk about all the things that were happening and going to happen. Myah has Mrs. Vega and Mrs. Lohr, the same teachers Aurora had last year and Aurora has faulous teachers. Myah was so invovled so quickly she didn't even have to worry about saying good bye! At least Aurora gave me a quick good bye. Myah is on the bottom with her friend Abby.

Detroit Lake

We couldn't have picked a better week to camp at Detroit Lake. The whole week it was a blistering 100 degrees plus-which is HOT for Oregon. We took the boat our with the Nissenins and had a fabulous time water skiing and swimming. We all dropped into our beds each night because we completely exhausted from the swimming and the heat. I have to say the highlight was a little cove we found that had a waterfall tucked back in it. The falls were beautiful and the water was freezing cold. We found a few rock croppings close by that couldn't have been more perfect to jump off. I just can't believe I didn't get any pictures of all the amazing stunts from everyone. We even had copycat competitions. The crazy part of the trip-Dave running out of gas after dropping the Nissenins back off at camp. He had to flag a stranger down, who had to find me on the island in the lake. After we accomplished that, Mark tried to get on the stranger's jet ski, which didn't work, so we had to ask some people next to us if they could give Mark a ride back to camp to get the gas cans. Mean while Dave is drifting aimlessly, because Aaron had to cut the anchor earlier that day because it was caught under a tree. The first guy went and exchanged his jet ski for his boat and then proceeded to tow Dave over to me. Just as he arrived, Mark showed up with the gas on Aaron's jet ski! Yeah, we were saved. Needless to say, that next week the broken gas gauge was fixed!