Happy 4th of July!

We played all weekend at the beach - sun, sun, sand and sun!

Lance's cousin and family from Minnesota were out to enjoy the wonderful Seattle weather - drove 2 days each way just to stay for 2.5 days! They've never been here when it's been cloudy and cool!

Below is Savannah and Alex digging for a clam on the beach - they got 3 horse clams dug by hand!

Alex carrying the bucket with the clams - heavy!

Savannah with one of the clams.

Alex and his sandcastle - he played with that sand castle for at least 1.5 hours. He would find a sanddollar and put it on the sandcastle and cover it with more sand. It was such a lovely day - with a wonderful view of Mt. Rainer in the backdrop.

I even went kayaking with Bella and it was glorious!

Happy 4th of July everyone!

bunny ears and a look at the scar

The bunny ears are just for fun!

It is really looking A LOT better. Hopefully some vitamin E oil will really help it diminish... any other tips to help scars fade away?

Building a bridge

During the summer of "if it's free - we'll do it" - - - we (meaning Lance) took on an amazing project where we dug a creek bed and lined it with rocks. Basically a hand dug ditch, in some places as wide as 4-5 feet, others are only 2-3 feet wide with nice curves that follow the land. We uncovered some french drains to help with our soggy back yard and cleaned them out, hopefully making them work better. We took rocks from other parts of our property and hauled them to our newly created "dry creek bed" and it was really lovely.

It did really help with some parts of our soggy back yard and it was TOTALLY free!

Fast foward a couple of years and now we have a little boy who loves walking over the dry creek bed to get to the other side with the big stump and lots of things to explore.

So we decided to build a bridge! Not just any bridge, but a sexy curved bridge! It was Lance's design and I think it really came out wonderfully. Alex not only loves bridges right now, but he loved helping his Daddy build it!