Boxx Berry Farms

Yesterday was a busy fun-filled Saturday. In the afternoon I brought the boys to Boxx Berry Farms for their annual Raspberry Festival. Paden and Evan picked raspberries for the first time and they loved it ! I think they loved eating them more than they did picking them though!

Aidan came along.

Home girl was there too!

After we were finished picking/eating as many berries as the boys could fit in their bellies and buckets we headed over to where all the festivities were going on. Evan enjoyed feeding the goats but had a hard time figuring out which end was their mouth...I was pretty surprised he was never kicked by one of them!

Paden and Evan have both gotten real familiar with this place. Evan LOVES the tractor ride and Paden even remembers the name of this placed he says, "is it time to go to Boxx Berry Farms yet?"

Dinner on the Boat

Yesterday evening my mom called me up and asked if I wanted to bring the boys on the boat for a little ride and for dinner. Of course I agreed! Poor Robby always has to stay back for work he says, "you get to have all the fun."
I LOVE going on the boat. We live in the most beautiful place in the world and I don't believe that you can really know the beauty of this area until you've discovered it from a boat. There are so many places and islands and different sea creaturesto see, I just love it!
My boys love it just as much as I do too. We stayed up way past their bed time and normally they would be pretty cranky but they were as happy as could be!

We met up with some of our friends and tied our boats together.

We then spent the next few hours laughing and eating together!

On the ride home Paden talked to me about a special girl he met. Here's how part of our conversation went. I can't remember everything he said but here's part of it...

Paden: Mom when that girl doesn't have a family she will live with us.

Me: Which girl?

Paden: The girl on the boat.

Me: Which girl? There were three girls on the boat.

Paden: The one with no clothes on.

Me: (I'm laughing pretty hard right now) Oh yeah, she's nice!

Paden: Yeah, she is!

Paden: When that girl gets older and I get older, we're gonna get married.

Me: Oh yeah

Paden: (after a few minutes of silence) Mom I found the girl I'm going to marry.

The girl Paden was talking about is Breanna Wilson who by the way was wearing a bathing suit and is about eight years older than Paden. I'm starting to get worried about my little ladies man. I wonder what the future holds for such a girl crazy four year old??!

Back to the Beach

Yesterday was another beautiful Bellingham summer day so I brought Paden and Kai along with me to the beach again. It was such a warm day and surprisingly the beach wasn't crowded at all except for all of 3rd ward!












































It's official: I really want one of these.

Bellingham 2nd Ward's "Berry Festival"

We had a fun Relief Society activity last night at our church, it was our first ever "Berry Festival."

There weren't too many of us that showed up but it was still probably the funnest activity of the year. For the berry festival we had a cute craft you could make and a few different games to play. The games included a strawberry walk and a strawberry relay with jars of homemade jam as the prize. There was also a berry dessert table with scrumdidlyumptious treats to eat!

















The funnest part of the evening was when we crowned a new "Miss Berry". There were three contestants chosen to compete in the Miss Berry Pageant and each contestant had a team to help create a gown to walk in. Here they are....



















We chose the new Miss Berry by the loudest applause














Here she is being crowned, "Miss Berry 2009"!





















Guess who helped create the winning outfit, yep that would be me!




































so berry cute!

Birch Bay

I got a call from my good friend Mimi this morning inviting me to come along with her to Birch Bay. I quickly agreed! What's better than chatting with your home girls and watching your kids play in the ocean? Nope...there's nothing better!

I've never brought my kids here to play so I wasn't quite prepared. I didn't think of bringing their swim trunks or little swimmer diapers for some reason but that didn't stop them from having a good time!

It is so beautiful here at Birch Bay. The funnest thing about this place is that the water is extremely shallow. The kids were able to walk out about half a mile in without the water going above the knees. It was a really crazy thing to see.

Paden had a blast especially playing with the other kids' water guns. Evan on the other hand was a little weirded out by all the sea weed and other weird crazy looking things floating in the water. Evan preferred to stay on the rocks most of the time and wanted me to carry him over anything that looked a little suspicious. When the older boys got in a sea weed fight throwing the green sticky, smelly, slimy mess at each other, Evan watched in complete horror! It was pretty hilarious.

Here are a million pictures...I have issues, I know!!












































































These are my home girls!
















My crazy Water Baby...

Playin at the Beach

Last Saturday afternoon my sister Amber and I brought the boys to the beach to cool off. It was one of our warmest days of summer and the water felt so good.

Kai enjoyed playing in the water the most, he is such a water baby! While we were there I would sit Kai down in front of this log with his back against it in the shallow part of the water. As soon as I would place him there he would immediatly push himself face forward into the water and Army crawl right in splashing and dipping his face in! I loved watching him have so much fun!

There were some other moms and grandmas there that were acting really nervous watching Kai too, they kept giving me advice and telling me to pick him up. I just smiled and let my baby play.

Check HIM out!

Kai has mastered the Army crawl!

By the way the music in the background is from a cartoon.