Just some random pics from this summer

Loving her new shades

Ruby's e-collar makes a great hat

Working on our 'cheese' face

Donuts at church

Splash pad in Wilsonville on the 4th of July

Reading with Daddy

Good Morning! 

First black eye

Buckets make good hats too

Pigtails! 

Camping

We have been camping several times this summer. It has been lots of fun but honestly I'm glad it is over with for the year. Claire's sleeping habits while camping are absolutely awful and I can't take it anymore. She REFUSES to take a nap. I end having to hold her while she screams (sometimes for 40 minutes) herself to exhaustion and finally falls asleep. She then only sleeps for a hour or so and wakes up crabby just to do it all over again come bed time. Hopefully next year will be better cause this momma can't handle it.

Okay enough complaining, on to the fun stuff. We camp in Cougar, Washington which is at the base of Mt St Helens on Yale Lake. It is so beautiful! Unfortunately I only remembered to get my camera out for one of the three camping trips sorry no pictures of the other families we camped with this year. Next time... promise :)

We had great weather two of the three trips. The July trip we ended up coming home early. It was miserable.

Tucker

Ruby

Mt St Helens

FINALLY asleep

One minute she is happy on the boat....

Dave and Brian

Brody

A few minutes later..... terrified. We had to go back to the dock so they could let us off.

Savanna

Savanna and Rachel 

Ape Caves

Weekend at the dunes

Here are a few pictures from our weekend trip to the dunes with our friends Jack and Theresa. Claire loved the beach. Smashing sand castles is the best. The weather was great. Sunny and 65 degrees, but windy. 

Ahhhh! 

Jack and Theresa

Playing around with an app on my phone

My fav pic

The view from the top of the dunes in North Bend

Just a day at the park

Claire asks to go to the park about 50 times a day. You might say its a hit. It is a toss up for "favs" between the monkey bars and the swing. (I like the monkey bars as it burns more energy and she takes better naps.) She can climb just about anything, no matter the size. You just have to show her the first time where to put her feet and hands, she just takes it from there. The only drawback, well actually two, is we have to drive; the closet park is 15 minutes and secondly it has been such a wet summer we don't go as much as Claire would like.

Twinkle Twinkle

Claire's favorite song to sing.... for now.

ABC's

Enjoy

Self Portrait

Claire's self portrait taken via my cell phone (minus the other 70 I deleted). Thank goodness its digital.