Yesterday we went to the park in between conference. I was still playing with my camera.
The girls made Halloween costumes for their dolls. Hayley’s doll is a surfer girl.
Clara’s is a bat. Hayley designed the outfits, Clara sewed and made them, and Laurel was the photographer. We took the dolls with us to the park and the girls set up a photo shoot. Isn’t that cute?
The light here in the fall in the northwest is amazing. It is bright white but also very warm on your skin. Today I played around, taking some pictures with this amazing light that was outside and streaming in through the windows. It’s like the earth is giving us one last break before winter takes over. It’s during that time that Jeremy and I like to look back at all the colors of the previous seasons and marvel at their vibrancy. These are all pictures I took today save one. Jeremy came home for lunch today and happened upon Zack and his dog on the couch. He took that one. Zack and Phoebe really are two peas in a pod.
Coming in for a snack…
Enjoying the warmth out on the trampoline while it lasts. (photo of Zack and 2 neighbors- I caught him out jumping in his underwear, and this was taken post pants.)
So our county fair is late, we have it in September. Clara, Hayley, and Laurel entered some things. I forgot my camera to take pictures while at the fair, but had it when we went to pick things up.
Clara won a big ribbon for her peacock made from plant material. (zucchini body)
This was a boy in our ward who bought one of our chicks and then showed it in the fair.
Clara won two grand champion ribbons for her eggs! Thanks Aunt Annie for the original eggs we hatched and Grandma and Grandpa Z. for the incubator. (There were lots of eggs in the show but they had already been taken home.)
This was my table display. I thought that it was hilarious that this was a class, so I did a 1st anniversary place setting and did it all out of paper. Get it? The vase is toilet paper. I got a special award. We also entered a poem of Hayley's and Clara had two clay sculptures and all of those got blues.
So we ended our camping season with a bang. We drove down to the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. It was amazing!
I finally figured out that all the cool campers have lights on their trailer awning. We saw someone else have tiki torches and discovered that it’s so fun to have them out at night.
Yes, this is a real picture we took of Multnomah falls. Isn’t that amazing?
We spent a day at the beach on the river. Next to the beach were wild blackberries.
Zack took at bath in the trailer for the first time. It’s like the size of a sink but just right for him.
Monday we went across the river to Washington and explored an ice cave.
This is a picture of the kiters on the river. They strap on a snow board thing and then hold onto a parasail. It’s really big there. We had a blast. We look forward to going back!
So Hayley turned 11. She got a big girl bike and went on a ride with Jeremy. They left our house and said that they would call from somewhere downtown so I could pick them up. They called from 10 miles away from the next town’s mall!
She had a great birthday. She is such a sweet, responsible girl and we love her!
I got Zack in the bath and asked the girls to turn it off and add bubbles. I heard squeals and laughter and came back to this. :)
Today was a great day. Our friend Jane went out fossil hunting with the kids and I. It was only about 50 miles away in a forest. The fossils we got were amazing! Here are a few examples. We thought of the Petersons on this trip.
The fossil bed was off of a logging road where big logging trucks would roar by and stir up lots of dust. We were all pretty dusty when we got home. I gave the kids the choice of either taking a bath or playing in the sprinkler. Zack chose playing in the sprinkler. (on the trampoline) I wish summer could last forever…
(Zack told me that this was his “yellow swimsuit”
Also today, we got out second egg from our chicks that we hatched in the spring. Clara was pretty jazzed.
