Summer

Well here it is the end of July and so far we have had a pretty good summer. Lots of warm weather for the kids to play outside in and some pretty impressive thunderstorms (not normal for around here). I did not take the picture but it is taken from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

We had an awesome Independence Day with lots of fireworks to celebrate. We only had one small fire and a few minor burns. :)

We had a chance to visit family.

And some of us soaked up lots of sun and grew up.

It has been a great summer so far!

Summer Camp

Aly had a great time at Camp Fire Kids Day Camp! She got to spend time with her friends and learn new songs and skills. She is already asking when it will be time for next year's camp. She also really like having her hair dyed blue for crazy hair day.

Since we had extra dye we did her cousins' hair to. :) It is finally starting to wash out several weeks later.

Promotion

Well we have officially made it through first grade as a homeschool family! Last night the homeschool group had a moving up ceremony that was awesome. Aly even got up and talked about her diorama that we made.

I made a special certificate to give her that said that she completed first grade.

We are moving on to some fun summer time activities and plan to start school again around September 4th. Of course since learning never really stops we will do all kinds of fun learning things over the summer.

We had a great year and can't wait for the next one!

New Family Member

Aly is constantly talking about wanting to sell something. I think that she was born with the spirit of a business woman. We have decided that raising rabbits may be a good place to start. We brought home her first investment today. lol. He is about 6 weeks old in this picture and even though he is black now he will be a beautiful silver/gray color when he is grown. We are going to attend our first 4H meeting in a week and get her started on the right track. She is thrilled with him and has named him Hopper.

Summer play

It was a beautiful sunny day today and we spent a lot of time outside. Almost got to have a thunderstorm even but it changed directions before it made it to us. We saw a couple of flashes of lightning and heard some thunder in the distance but that is about it.

Now she is all clean and jammied and ready for bed. :) Well, maybe ready for bed, she looks pretty bright eyed in this picture. lol

Camp Fire

I almost forgot to talk about all of the fun stuff we do at Camp Fire Kids! I don't have many pictures but here are few from making pretzels at Auntie Anne's.

She also had her first experience at roller skating with Camp Fire!

The skating rink had these cool things for kids to hold on to to help them stay on their feet. She had so much fun that she decided that she wanted a skating birthday party.

I just have to do this. :)

As I looked back at our very sparse blog over the year I can't help but post pictures of how much she has changed over the past 9 months. I think you will agree with me that the little girls look is fading away.

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