chelsea is 30 and a fun photobooth

Last weekend Chelsea turned 30.

We celebrated with a Hipster birthday bash.

I was in charge of the “photobooth.”

There were hundreds of good ones.

Here are a few of my favs.

I love these 3.

 

Proteinikah 2013

 

The annual meat-fest also known as Proteinikah did not disappoint. Every bit of it was DELICIOUS and so much fun. Something I look forward to every summer. Joey does an amazing job. This year the festivities were threatened with thunder and lightening storms. But they passed and it turned out to be a great night. I brought out the Intax Polaroid. It was a hit and so much fun too. Can’t wait til next year!

 

Go Hawks

The girls are into the Hawks.

They love talking about it with Casey.

This pic was from golf camp.

It was jersey day and the girls wanted to get Hawks jerseys.

We borrowed them from the cousins.

So cute.

Football season is upon us.

A family hike.

I’m going to try to catch up on the rest of the summer before school starts… only eight more days.

One Sunday we decided to go for a little family hike at Mt. Peak in Enumclaw. The girls had just been hiking the week before at the Dad and Me Campout and I heard they did great. It’s about a mile up the hill but it’s steep and I was out of breath at times. These girls were rock stars. They did awesome and so did Casey, carrying Molly the whole way.






Kyla was hilarious. She never stopped. Never complained. When she got “so sweaty” she just improvised and did this with her shirt so that she could cool down. She also entertained us by making video posts at the half way point and at the top. I don’t think I’ve blogged about these video posts she does. She pretends she is a news reporter and reports on whatever we are doing, “Kyla A News reporting live.”


This girl of course liked to be the lead dog.


And when we reached the top Molly needed an iPhone break of course.


It was a fun little adventure and I was highly impressed with my girls.

We love Wenatchee.

I hate to blog out of order (I really hate it) but I just can’t pass up pushing this photos to the front of the line. We got home today from what has become one of our summer traditions- heading over 2 mountain passes to see one of my very best friends and her little family in Wenatchee Washington- Apple Capital of the World. I loved these two fun filled days. Last year it was all about Colton and Heidi and their buddy buddy friendship (which did continue) but this year I couldn’t get enough of this…

Ella and Molly. Just two and a half months apart, these two have to be the cutest thing you have ever seen. They are similar in size, have similar vocabularies, have similar interests (baby dolls and cell phones) and similar potty habits. I literally loved them together. I wished we lived closer, not only for the sake of Jenn and I but for Molly and Ella to be BFFs too.

Of course the love of dogs continues with Charlie. I haven’t really blogged much about it but my girls used to be super scared of dogs-especially of HUGE Charlie. But times are changing. Heidi wants a dog. She claims she needs one. She got a little dog fix with Charlie.

Jenn and Josh’s backyard pretty much backs up to an orchard. It’s beautiful (a little smoky this time around). I love the huge tree in their yard and the girls loved playing with Colton and Ella. I of course brought out my camera only once on this trip-really. I missed the first 24 hours but when I brought it out for 45 minutes after dinner I took over 300 pictures. Geesh! These are a few of my favs.

I hope it’s less than a year til I see these people- some of my favorite.

July Recap

 

Well, I have not been blogging. We’ve had a busy busy summer and Instagram (as I’ve said before) has really hindered my “real camera” photo taking. So, I thought I’d do a little recap of the rest of July that wasn’t captured on my phone.

Molly McGee: She spent a good part of July in her “soup” (as she calls a suit) playing in the backyard. Sliding into the blue plastic pool over and over and dunking her head. She couldn’t get enough and it didn’t matter if she was the only one enjoying herself.

 

Cle Elum with the Edwards ladies and kids: I didn’t get many pics here either. The girls loved the river and if felt much warmer than the water we were in just the week before (Lk Roosevelt). I wish I had more photos from this trip. It was a quick one- one where Molly drove me crazy and didn’t go to sleep until 11:30pm. One where the girls made up songs and preformed them for us- they were hilarious as usual- a Kyla and Hailey original titled “Don’t tell me What to Do.”  One where Kyla felt like a big kid going down for Bible Study by the river with the big kids.

 

Neighbor fun: We have been hanging with the neighbors in “the Sac” a ton. We took a trip to Gramma’s pool one day. It turned out to be a cold cold day. But we still had fun and made a little trip down to the beach….trying to wait out the sun.

Reading and A Big Girl Bed: I don’t ever think I mentioned on here that Molly got a big girl bed and no longer has a binky. I know! Notice that she also likes to pick out and put on her on PJs. Kyla has been working hard on her reading all summer.

Some Randoms: Just found these too. Couldn’t resist. Molly just being her cute little self.

An August post coming soon!

Only 2 more weeks of summer left. I better enjoy it. Then comes first and second grade and they will both be gone all day.