While our week away at Olympic National Park was lots of fun, the rest of our summer was also filled with moments to remember.
The school year officially ended June 29:
Janae received awards for outstanding achievement in English and vocal jazz, and Alaina was the top academic student in her grade!
The next several weeks, Eric did swimming lessons at our local pool.
His skills grew amazingly fast, and halfway through the summer, he was ready to go off the highest high dive at the Walnut Grove pool--a cement platform that many of us would never attempt!
We also went to the Aldergrove waterslides
and Second Beach pool in Vancouver (twice!).
Early in the summer, Janae tried out life with semi-permanent red hair (which still hasn't faded completely), and Alaina spent a few days as a Nephite at our church's youth activity (Moroni's Quest).
Alaina also went to girls' camp a few weeks later.
While Alaina was away, Eric and I painted her and Janae's room. Even though she'd helped to pick out the color before she left, she was really surprised--which made all the hard work worthwhile :)
Another highlight was visiting with my sisters and their kids. Anita and Summer came up at the beginning of the summer, and we went to White Rock Beach and Birchwood Dairy.
Later, we got to visit their family in Seattle as well--we tried the pedal boats at Green Lake
and saw the Barbie movie--which we'd all been waiting for (okay, maybe not Jason and Ben). Alaina and Eric had bought Barbies from the movie a few weeks earlier, which was fortunate because they became very hard to find here afterwards.
We also got to go to Sheri's, where Eric had so much fun playing with Forrest.
And, of course, we picked the blueberries at Grandma's. Although there weren't as many berries as usual this year, we always enjoy visiting with Grandma and finding Peeta.
On one of the hottest days in August, we went to our local fair (but only for an hour because of the heat!),
and another day we visited Krause Berry Farm.
Then there was Bard on the Beach, where we got to see two plays this year: Julius Caesar and As You Like It--both were really good, although As You Like It was obviously more fun :).
Eric kept another family tradition alive by finishing the summer reading club. He actually knew the plots of both Shakespeare plays before we saw them because he'd read them on his own in a kids' Shakespeare book!
Sadly, we had to say goodbye to this girl ... Peaches was over 17 years old when she died, and we have missed her so much.
Our kids were miserable without a cat, and were constantly looking for kittens online. Last Monday, we drove out to Agassiz to pick up this little sweetie--now named Pumpkin.
And today it was back to school.
Yes, it went by that fast!
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