3 Bears and a Fish

Here is what Ray has been doing the last few weeks while the sun is shining... trying to get all of the tree limbs to the dump before the rains start. We had the trees cut down about a month ago and he has been working on it a little bit every night. This is his 7th run to the dump.

We sold some of the big chunks of wood to a guy who makes carvings out of them. He paid us and also in exchange cut down some of our stumps and carved 3 bears and a fish for us. He is coming back in a couple of weeks to finish the fish and carve an eagle on the back side of the stump with the fish and the bear. Very cool! We are loving our back yard. It is soo big and open! Can't wait until it is done, Ray said, I'm not sure what I'll be doing when this is done,.... don't worry dear I'll come up with another project for you to do! :)

Just starting the carving. The only sad thing was I wasn't there to watch it. (Melissa and I were walking for the breast cancer walk- another post)

The tree stump was soo heavy that it tipped the trailer, luckily 2 of our neighbors were out and they came and helped roll it further into the trailer. Good job on the picture taking, Keagan!




All of these big sticks are from the tree!

Sunshine poking through our backyard!

You can tell how huge these pieces were!

Here they are trying to figure out how to best get them to their trailer!

Birch Bay

I love this sign in the Peace Arch park, leading into USA!


We got to go up to Birch Bay this week. Ray & I actually went listen to a timeshare presentation and got a free trip, but somehow it got messed up and we already had all our vacation time and babysitting (thanks mom & thom) set up, so we used Mom's bonus time for her time share in Birch Bay which is only a few miles away from the Canadian border. We don't have our passports or enhanced driver's license so we couldn't go into Canada. It is a 3 hour drive up to Birch Bay and only a few more miles to the border.

Here is a pic w/ the water somewhat out this morning before we left, it was right across the street from where we stayed. It would be really nice in the summer.. but prob. not available then, either. We stayed in a cute little studio apartment, w/ a little kitchen and a Murphy bed.

Ray by the water yesterday w/ the tide in.

We went to the Peace Arch Park and they had all the names of the flowers, here I had Ray stand next to the "Sexy Rexy" :)

Some of the strange sculptures they had there.

ok , Ray & I felt a little bad that we were sooo fascinated w/ a black squirrel, but have you ever seen a black squirrel before??!

had to take one of both of us to prove I really was there.

The Peace Arch

The flowers making the USA flag

The peace Arch

The Canadian flag

My kind of garden... it had rocks by the flowers w/ a name of each flower.

First day of school

First day of school

September 9, 2009

Jadyn, 4th grade, Aurora, 1st, Melissa, 8th, Keagan 4th.

This is what it should look like, all happy & excited!

This is how it started.. got up at 6:45, got Keagan up, Jadyn came over at 7 (poor thing, its her bday today!) Got Melissa up at 7:30. Melissa requested crepes for breakfast so I made them and she wasn't hungry! But Keagan and Jadyn liked them. Then I got Keagan and Jadyn out in the back yard to take pictures. They all hate this part, are you done yet mom!
Showing his goofy side.

Jadyn looking so cute! She's been coming to our house since she was 4! (shes 10 now)

Can we go yet?! Not until I get more pictures!

Melissa running from the camera

and giving me her look

I told her if she smiled then I would quit trying to take pictures of her..

this is the after picture, don't they look cute and happy together.... This is the before...

really they do get along, but they like to tease each other and wrestle around, someone told me that my kids get along so well, well here's to prove they are just like the rest..

Aurora, my cute 6 year old niece. She comes in the morning, too. She got there a little after 8 this morning, her mom was driving her to school. "Normally" she comes at 7:30, I say that because they are usually late.

she wore her striped socks, too. She dressed herself today! :)

She loves her cousin Melissa!!

Keagan and Jadyn on the way into school.

and Aurora

School starts at 8:45 - 3:05

Aurora and some of her friends, Anna & Zane (who currently she says she is going to marry)

We passed by some middle schoolers waiting for the bus. I told Melissa they looked soo little, she said they are mom, they're just sevies.. Now that she is a BIG 8th grader! haha!

This is what kept me from crying after dropping of the younger kids, Melissa and I joking around. I kept trying to take pictures of her just to bug her, we were joking saying that is only the one million and 3rd picture you took.

one million 4, she was texting all they way into school.

her to her friends -Where are you at now?

me-Remember the phone needs to be turned off when you get to school

her-I know mom!

Aspire middle school 9:00 - 3:30.

Bye Sweetheart, are you sure you don't want me to walk you in, I could take your picture by the Aspire sign (we saw someone doing that on the way in and she told me not to get any ideas...)

Bye, Love ya! Have a good day at school!

Now off to do chores!

Welcome back to school mom!