Summer Fun!

We have been having a really warm August and have been doing fun things.  We visited our favorite beach again (Idylwood) with our Moulton cousins.  Check out how long our water train was.

 Grandma joined us at the beach so she could see her 10 grandchildren play together.

 We made a 500 piece puzzle. This is a Robert Dowdle puzzle of Seaside, Oregon.  We could not find the last piece (which is missing from the top).

 We visited a beach park in Seattle with our Walker cousins.  Holly and Emily enjoyed visiting with their Aunt in the shade.

 These girls loved playing together in the sand.

 We visited lots of fun parks near our house including this one where the kids played with a ladybug.

 And it flew right off the top of Megan's finger.

 Finally we went to Wild Waves theme park.  We enjoyed the water slides, lazy river and wave pool. But I didn't get any pictures of these because my camera would have gotten wet.  When the water slides got too crowded we headed over to the amusement park side with rides.  We rode the merry-go-round.

 The kiddie roller coaster.

 And the spinning cups.

 I even made it into one picture.

School starts next week and I will have one child in high school, one in middle school, two in elementary school and one in preschool.  Plus Holly starts before school seminary which is at 6:00 am.  It is going to be one exciting and busy year.

Cupcakes!

Three years ago I read on a my friend Nan's blog about a cupcake store in Bellevue.  I decided to go there with my kids on my birthday. 

The store was super cute inside.

 But the cupcakes were $3 each so we decided to get the day old box of 6 assorted cupcakes for $8. 
The cupcakes were not as yummy as I was expecting (maybe because they were a day old) but it was still a fun thing to do.

This year I decided to take my kids to NY cupcakes again on my birthday.  They were all three years older.

and so was I.  We got the day old cupcakes again and again they were not that good.  I guess I should have learned my lesson the first time.

After getting cupcakes we went to the park.

And to the new Walmart by the Seattle Temple.  I'm not a big Walmart fan but this one was brand new and close to our house.  Prior to this one opening the closest Walmart was 45 minutes away.  We bought treats for our trip to Utah.

 These are my cute girls!

 About a week after my birthday I made the treat I was really wanting, fruit pizza.  Yum!

Today I am thankful for:

*toys--I pulled out some toys that I got at a garage sale and the kids are all having a fun time with them.  They are called Ello creation system--I got a big box of them for $5.  Now our boring day is a little less boring.

*Holly just has two more flute lessons after today.  Both Holly and I are anxious for them to be over.  They did serve their purpose though, she is a lot more confident on the flute and ready for high school band.

*Netlix movies.  Yesterday the kids and I watched Mirror, Mirror and today they watched The Secret World of Arrietty.  Everyone thought Mirror, Mirror was the better movie.