2 weeks of summer vacation under our belts...

our first outing of the summer was 2 days on Whidbey Island with Jen, Taylor & Kadyn. We had so much fun and the weather, although not super sunny, was perfect.
First, the ferry ride...



The the walks on the beach finding all sorts of sea creatures, shells, etc

We found starfish...


Emerson enjoyed filling her bucket...mostly with rocks. She wasn't too interested in touching a crab or any other moving thing for that matter.

She did enjoy playing the drums with the driftwood...


On one of our 2 beach walks we got incredibly close, within 30 feet of a beautiful bald eagle. It was so cool to see it so close!

if you look closely, you can see it sitting on the rock and you can see how close the kids were to him (it). so cool!

all of the kids (minus Emerson who was in the backpack)

The kids spent hours building forts in front of the house that we stayed at. what a blast!



The sunset was the most incredible sunset I've seen in a long time!! The colors were unreal!! and the reflection on the houses to the east was even pretty.



This was probably close to 9:15 or 9:30 at night. what a gorgeous night!



We have taken several walks to an ant hill that we discovered in our neighborhood! Its about a mile round trip and Camden in particular wants to go every day! It's pretty incredible to see the thousands of ants crawling around!



We had a fun and safe 4th of July! We went to the Bothell parade and then we went to our friends house for the evening and the kids had a blast with the fireworks and friends!!

I loved this picture! Looks like something out of a movie!! they love the smoke bombs!


Emerson wasn't sure what to think about the fireworks. She was pretty afraid at first but then seemed to get used to it. she was making the funniest "ooooh" faces!

That's it for now. Onto the next summer adventures...