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                           Yeah it's Saturday! The last time I will have to drive to camp Gilead for this year. All my babies are home. Plus I have extras! Lanie and Ryan are sleeping over. They both said they had a good time, got lots of packages, and stayed up way too late during Friday night live. The kids said that their counselors kept them up till 3 AM in the morning and then they had to get back up around 730 for breakfast and packed up for today. Sounds like Valerie's favorite thing to do was swim and Ethan  liked playing soccer and various activities that they did with his group. Fortunately when I got back home, Mark was still here they had a chance to say hi before he left for golfing in Sequim with Jeremy. Since he was going out of town, I told Shannon I would take Ryan in Lanie for a sleepover. The only bad thing is I completely forgot about Tiffany's wedding. I missed the wedding and the recept...

Charlie's first year at camp. She was a little apprehensive, but very excited. It helped to have Jax and Ryan go to camp with her. I didn't think it would be as hard as it was, not having her around here for a week. We missed her like crazy, and every day I just wanted to go pick her up. I do remember feeling the same way when I sent Valerie to camp for the first time when she was entering third-grade. Charlie did great. The first thing she said to me was "Mom, don't worry I'm okay now but I drownded the first day, it was when I was taking my swimming test." It was funny to hear, and NO she was no where near drowning during her test. Apparently her hair, which she refused to braid all week long, got in her face and she got nervous and started sputtering so they pulled her out of the deep end as she was attempting her swim test!✌🏻She's always ready to prove her independence to someone, it just didn't work out that day. She had a great time, met some n...

                      Our Fourth of July included foot golf, geocaching, and lots and lots of fireworks! I Have to say, that the round of foot golf with our family and my brothers' kids was the highlight of my day. Even though there was pouting/complaining in the beginning, a few tears in the middle of the course (my teen) and some frustrations at the ending scores (between the little ones) we had a great time and would love to do it again soon! After foot golf we took the kids to Steilacom Park and geocached for an hour. We found one in a graveyard, all ghostly like. One near a tree, that Shakespeare would have loved to sit under and nothing on this poor tractor that was nearly dismantled trying to find the cache. We did go back another day and find the cache with Chris. Or in actuality he found the cache! We don't like the feeling of leaving a cache if we didn't find it! After grabbing food from Winco we headed to my bro...

                                 When I write posts I seriously don't include every picture I take. These are just a small portion of them. We finished the second day with the Slaughters in Vancouver. My pedometer closed nearly 14000 steps that day. We walked all over Stanley Park and visited the Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge. The views from the bridge were beautiful but we had a ton of fun crossing the river to Geocache (thank goodness Chris helped me across-I was worried that my phone would get wet) and hiking up to where they cliff jump off the rocks into the water below. I think by the end of the weekend we had found 18-19 caches.  Chris and Kourtney are gone now. This past Thursday-Friday we had our last adventures together. We took the kids Geocahing in DuPont and did the Paul Bunyon cache series and went to the Bite of Seattle. At The Bite we ate: Alligator on a stick Potato and Cheese piero...