Catch Up Blogging - or, "What We Did During Summer Vacation"

Okay, so I didn’t blog for a couple months. I have my excuses. But I had no idea how hard it would be to get started again. I thought habits were harder to break? So, this is going to be a catch up entry - sort of a Kitchen Sink post, as I throw a bunch of stuff in from over the summer. What follows is a great example of how selective editing can really improve your life, and that when the going gets tough, the tough go party...

We celebrated July 4th at my Sister Kris’ house. (Shen calls her “Uncle Kris”) Since my mom had all three of her children, their spouses, and all the grandkids there she insisted on getting a family portrait for her Christmas cards. 43 pictures were taken of the group with my camera and there wasn’t a good one in the bunch. When Mom was visiting last week she wanted to know why she hadn’t gotten a copy from us yet, so I showed her what I had. She agreed, it was not good. But, thank goodness for Photoshop! I was able to move heads around from 8 different pictures to produce this miracle shot - all of us looking at the camera with relatively pleasant expressions. A beautiful moment that never really happened...



We had Shen’s One Year Post Placement Interview with our social worker. Which also means we celebrated Shen’s Adoption Day. Here’s the photo we provided to prove he’s still alive and living happily with us. It looks pretty convincing, and I swear it isn’t Photoshopped...


We went to the Lynden Fair where we saw all the animals, ate fair food, heard live music and rode a bunch of kiddy rides...



We celebrated Ben’s 18th Birthday and Brittni’s 20th. Here’s a photo our neighbor Stephen snapped us singing Happy Birthday!


We played in the pool at Grandma’s Condo...




We went to Priest Lake with Aunt (uncle) Kris and Uncle Mark too.
We got to drive Uncle Mark’s Boat!


And go inner-tubing!


And build sandcastles!


We visited our friend Jasper and his parents, Pat and Paula at their beach house on Padilla Bay. Uncle Pat took us for a ride in the row boat...


Kai started school last week. Here’s a photo of him waiting for the bus with Gramma. I love the pensive look on his face, but he wasn’t really worried about school, just annoyed at having to pose for pictures.


Well, that almost gets us caught up! Now we can move on to current posting. I’m going to try hard to get back in the habit so I hope you follow along.