Vacation Day 1

Today Lucy, Haley and I left to go on our road trip to Seattle to visit with Aunt Ginny, Amanda and Grandma Pat. We were originally going to leave on Monday, but I wanted to wait until Alex returned from his 4 days of living his mid-evil fantasy at the Renaissance Fair. He had a great time. Returned tired, dirty, smelly and sun burned/tan. He managed to snag a new sword while there too. I need to ask him what he traded for that. Anyway, once he was home we left the next morning. We made great time to Seattle. 5 hours and I don't think I was speeding and we even stop a couple times for me and Haley :)
Here are me, Lucy, Amanda, G Grandma and Aunt Ginny out at Jimmy Mac's. Dinner was good. The company was better. I think I have a really great, fun family and I love spending time with them. I hope to get up here more often.

After we got back to Aunt Ginny's Haley, Giddy Up and Tye all wrestled Aunt Ginny to the ground and made her play with them. In the morning we are heading out to Cour D'Alene.

Bohemia Mining Days

There are many things I really like about living in a small town, particularly Cottage Grove. It's beautiful! , friendly, everyone knows your kids and keeps you informed on what they're doing (the kids don't like it, but too bad), no cars go by my house with boom boxes going shaking the windows, I feel safe walking down the street. One of the best things is the parade for Bohemia mining days. Very small town and the street is lined with people watching it. Even the circus coming to town next month had their floats in.

The lion was trained to lay down and not make a sound!
Elmo was there. Lucy ran out and hugged him. She remembered him from Sacramento! Notice a Walgreens is being built!

The high school marching band didn't play because they are on summer break (they're unionized). Luckily we have an old timers marching band and they are great!

Cottage Grove is a great place to retire. Rosie and several of her friends are here.
I wanted to ride in the wagon.
And you thought only San Fransisco was known for their bath houses :)



The mine actually has an interesting history. Lucy and I are hoping to go up for the pancake breakfast in the morning, but I'm not sure how to get there!
http://www.ccrh.org/comm/cottage/primary/bohemia.htm

Haley and the lake

Being a lab I shouldn't be surprised Haley likes the water. She has always liked playing with the hose and the sprinkler, but she hasn't been in the water other then one time at the river. At first she was hesitant about going in the water. I threw her ball and she just looked at me like I was nuts! Then I threw it just a few feet out and she went and got it. Then I threw it a little further and she went and got. Now she loves going out to the lake and swimming out to get her ball. If she pushes it under the water she puts her face under water to try and get her mouth around it. She is truly a water dog :)

Co-op

The most totally exciting thing about last week was I got my closet cleaned out! It might not sound like a big deal, but trust me, it was :) Alex cleaned out his closet too. I would like to tell you he was as excited about it as I was doing mine, but he only did it because I insisted. Lucy cleaned hers too. We are now known as the clean closet family! Good Will has several boxes of stuff coming to them too. I also did my first day of my summer co-op at the hospital here in Cottage Grove. Much smaller but I really liked it. It's only about 3 miles from my house so I don't have to leave 45 minutes early to get there!
Lucy and I went to the high school in Creswell for a fireworks show with some friends on 4th of July. Here is a page I made with some pictures. The kit is a freebie from Redju called American Kit.



The next 2 pages are pictures Lucy and her friend Lexi took with my camera when we were at concert in the park a couple weeks ago. We went this week too but I was too busy enjoying the music to take pictures :) I've noticed that teenage girls love to take pictures of themselves these days. Lucy is constantly taking pictures of herself. I found these on my camera and thought I'd do a couple pages with pictures she likes of herself. There are so many wonderful freebies out there to scrap with that I don't buy many kits. I do have my favorite designers though and Chaos Lounge is one of them. I love her stuff and thought this kit, Dear Diary, was perfect for scraping teenage girls.

Summer so far...

It's still pretty hot here. I guess since we're not burning like California I shouldn't complain. I am totally loving my summer break. Today I took Lucy, her friend Lexi and Haley out to Cottage Grove lake to swim. Haley loved it! That's her swimming in the middle of the picture. I only had my phone camera so I couldn't zoom in. I'd throw the ball out there and she'd swim out and get it and make me throw it again.
Last night was concert in the park. Lot's of fun. I went with my friend Cherilyn, Lucy and Lexi. We took a picnic dinner and listened to music. There was a wine sampling too :)

Lucy ran into someone with a ferret! Mom can we get one? Geez no! They give me the willies!

Look, I got a picture of Alex and Lucy yesterday. If you don't zoom in we can pretend Alex is smiling. Why is it that teenage boys think smiling is uncool?? Tomorrow Lucy and I are going to the fireworks show at the high school in Creswell. I'll get pictures :) This page is made with all ChaosLounge stuff.

Hot Hot Hot!!

OMG! It has been so HOT the last couple of days. This morning I took Haley for a walk at 9:30 and it was already too hot to be out. It is supposed to be a bit cooler tomorrow, but I'm still thinking Haley and I want to be out for our walk about 8:30. We're supposed to get some thunder storms tomorrow. I'm hoping not bad ones. I don't want to be burning like California. This picture is my nephew Nathan. He caught a Pike fishing a couple weeks ago.

I scrapped some more pictures from Raina's wedding. It really was a nice wedding and a lot of fun. This is Becky and Howard. They had a really great time at the wedding and notice how happy they are! I used W&W Spreading Cheer by Gina Marie-Huff to make this page.


One of the great things about family weddings is that you get to see family that you don't see often enough. This is my cousin Roxy and her daughter Katrina. They stayed at the same hotel as us so we got to visit and catch up down by the pool. I used cute freebie kit called Summer Garden for this page. Danielle Corbittdanielle.corbitt@gmail.com
http://atexaschickie.blogspot.com/

Summer

I scrapped a couple pictures from Raina's wedding :) This is Jodi and Riley. It was done with Little Dreamers kit by Julia Makotinsky. I really like her stuff.
This is me and Lucy at Raina's wedding. I need to put more ink in my printer so I can print these. This was done with the recent freebie from Chaos Lounge.

I love summer :) I just got back from Portland. I spent a couple days with Jeff. Lucy is camping with some friends I trust her with. Alex stayed home and took care of the animals. My house was actually in descent shape when I got back. I visited my good friend Sok while I was in Portland. She has 4 of the cutest little girls in the world. I've been busy the last couple weeks cleaning and doing yard work. It might not sound exciting, but when you haven't had time to do these things it's nice to be have the time and I enjoy them. If gas doesn't go much higher I have a road trip planned the end of July for me, Lucy and Haley. We're going to Seattle to see Aunt Ginny, Amanda and Grandma Pat and then on to Idaho to visit with my sister Robyn and her family. I'm getting worried though that gas will be $5 a gallon by then though.