The Earth Explained

Dan and Elliott read a book last night about the earth and how it has evolved over the years.  As I was putting E to bed (for the 3rd time) he said to me:

The earth started out as hot lava (said with a super excited voice).  Then, water came.  Then, LIFE (said mysteriously).  Then dinosaurs.  Then racoons.  Then us.

He is very interested in space right now.  We got this book at the library, The Brightest in the Sky.  He asks about planets and astronauts every day.  I think I'll have to head back to the library and get more books from this planet collection.

I'll post more pictures and a better update in the next few days.

Picture Recap

Get ready for it....I'm not going to write much, but there will be a ton of pictures to look at from the past month and a half!

Enjoy :)

In mid July we went Blueberry and Marionberry picking at a local farm.

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At the end of June my cousin, Anna, and her family visited from Charlotte, NC.  I already posted some pictures from this visit on facebook, so I've just added a few more here.

Caleb is 3 and just figured out how to do monkey bars!  I told Amy he needs to start gymnastics.

 Here are the eight cousins on my side and Henry, Anna's son.

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Dan and Elliott did a backyard camp-out at the beginning of August

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 Elliott and Holly love riding around the house!

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 Elliott has turned into quite a climber

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We went to Seaside the second weekend in August and visited Fort Clatsop

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 It was HOT here for about 5 days, we spent one of them with Amy and her boys playing in the water and eating Otter Pops.

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Celebrating Hawaiian Style!

Yesterday we had Holly's 1st Birthday party.  We celebrated with family and we are thankful that everyone (except Jake who was working..boo!) was able to be there with us.  Dan organized games for the kids.  To me, it seemed like a great party!  I took close to 200 pictures, so here is a little sample of the fun we had.

Getting prepped to celebrate 

 Holly the climber!  She can make it to the top of this slide...great...

Dan explaining "fire island" to the kids.  Basically walk a balance beam through Tiki Torches.

Cameron's turn

 Holly even tried it out

 Yay!

 Elliott doing the "monkey roll".  Rolling a ping pong ball down the ramp into the monkey face

 Holly and Daddy

Holly and Mommy 

Paige peeking out of the castle

Pinata time!

Everyone got a turn 

Josh finally broke it open after everyone had 2 turns

Cora patiently watches all the madness

Happy Birthday, Holly!

She was quite dainty for a few minutes and poked at her cupcake

But, then she dove right in!

Family watching

Cousins eating their cupcakes

After gifts were opened

Twins!

The castle was really fun for the kids

These parents look tired!

Grace just loves Holly

We had a great Birthday party.  Thanks everyone for making it so special!