07-2014

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1 Hockey mom times two!	2 working with the best "body guard" on the planet! Campbell is working with a group of neighborhood boys when we moms have to work or whatever. It's awesome!	3 Learning about soldering.	4
5 Ben and "Battie" love the new camper! Ben gets a new treat every now and then since big brother is into a lot of kinda pricey things like robots and stuff...	6 Tying Growing Eagle to a hockey coach for the July 4 Parade! His asst coach, Caden, went wild over seeing an Eagle at the parade! That's Caden's dad (and head coach Brett) helping.	7	8
9 Nice!	10	11 The kids did a great job waiting for their turn to head down the parade route. It was a long wait - about an hour!	12 Some dads and Mr. Ben :)
13 Can you find Big Sam?	14	15 Nice spirit! He's a really nice guy.	16
17 Fierce face!	18 My neighbor, Ingunn, and little Esther! It was fun to see a lot of people on the parade route!	19 Going downhill is a little tricky for new skaters, but they all did really well.	20 McCafferty clan!
21	22 This is a video of what the team did several times throughout the parade...	23	24 You drag skates to slow yourself down...
25 Susan and Brie!!!	26 Ben's friend Eli!	27 Lovely ladies - hello Kim and Beckey! These two work so hard for the school. Great to see them relaxing for once!	28 Ben marches to his own drummer :) Eagle started to get a little itchy on Caden so he's back with his "daddy."
29 LOVE this shot. So funny!	30 Intihar family!	31 Hockey in the parking lot afterwards? Really? Not such a great idea in confined quarters!	32 Opening up the rock tumbler is fun!
33 An impromptu water war with neighbor boys who are brothers.	34	35	36
37 It was raining anyway so why not. It's summer! I had to dry all the clothes and try to get the boys into new clothes from our dressers before heading to a birthday party. I almost did it.	38 Tossing secret weapons - old food from the fridge (strawberries) and marshmallows!	39	40 Birthday party for Alex, in the middle next to Sam. A great time!
41 Number talk time with Ben while Sam was at the party - he and I had a math chat for 45 min that we both loved! He asked to do it again.	42 This has been a mountain biking summer for sure! It is awesome having daddy with us!!	43 Ben learning to stay in control on hills :)	44 A neat meadow and nice time with just Sam while Dave went with Ben (who makes my nerves ache).
45	46 Soooo nice to have Daddy figure all this out! Geez it's a lot of work!	47 Thank you so much for loading us up so many times this summer!	48 4 big bikes to load - a puzzle to configure each time...
49 And this is what it is like to live with Ben...or be near us in a parking lot.	50 Amazing planters! We want to be able to do this!!!	51	52 Neil and Edie popped by shortly before their wedding in Tahoe!
53 Learning JavaScript with Campbell!	54	55 Wish I had a better camera and more time to snap pictures while mountain biking with boys! They go too fast! Sunlight gorgeous in woods.	56 Out on a jog with two cool guys!
57 This story lasted nearly a full 5K!!	58 The reward!	59 This is how I spent my summer - soccer and hockey for the month of July! Doesn't Ben look super cute in his outfit? He loves getting all geared up and ready to roll for soccer camp even though it's 90 degrees!!!	60 Sam at roller hockey camp doing drills.
61 Selling eggs for the team! Ben was a superb sign spinner - so funny! People weren't stopping until he got out there. He even helped color in the signs.	62	63 Sign spinning videos!	64 More sign spinning moves!
65 Sign spinning moves!	66	67	68 Aren't they awesome!?
69 These are neighbors (and fellow hockey player in back) heading out of town, and behind them is actually one of the hockey assistant coaches!!!	70 Signing over a special book of instructions and notes to the next RadCon guy. This book has a long history. Very long. Very special piece.	71	72 Maybe Dave will refresh my memory on the details but it has been handed down for decades and on the book are signatures from each person who signed it over to the next person. Dave is now custodian. Big honor.
73 We are at a retirement ceremony for one of the nicest guys in the world (not pictured).	74 That guy right there with the sword - Chad!	75 I induced Ben to sign-spin at the tournament, but you know what? He was right. Better to sign spin when people are driving by. It's too awkward when people are walking by.	76 It just doesn't work the same way!
77 Sam scored his first goal in the tournament! And his team won! I raced back here from the retirement ceremony and am so glad I caught most of it despite missing the goal.	78 Sam in foreground.	79 This is the hockey look. I dare not congratulate him or fuss over him. He is such a serious guy about the game. Just get in the car, mom!	80 It's very hot out - can you tell?
81 And this is the next day at the rink for a Saturday morning game. It is hot out already. I guess a few sticks didn't make it!	82 Poor sticks.	83 Anything good, Frank?	84 Baby bird nest right outside our dining room window! Four in there!
85 Such a helpful guy, and very proud of new, clean sneakers!	86 One always looks RIGHT at you. They always stay in the same position in the nest.	87 Planters finally populated with PLANTS!	88 Just in time for dinner with a really neat couple, Greg and Sharon.
89 Mom wanted to see them all :)	90 Weekend lounging...so nice!	91 Baby birds stretch for taking flight...turns out it was the NEXT DAY!	92 Lunch before a ride on the Olympic Discovery Trail.
93 8.5 miles each way through farms and beautiful scenery. It was really wonderful - a rails to trails route that stretches from Port Townsend across the Olympic Peninsula. Not all of it is dedicated bike trail, but we're exploring stretches that are.	94	95	96 Cow pastures, too!
97	98	99 Ben is THE CRAZIEST BIKER you will ever see. His feet and hands are rarely actually where they should be. He waves to everyone, he shakes his feet around and off the pedals, and horses around WHILE RIDING. We all like to imitate him.	100 This would be a nice place to live.
101 Or a trailer right here. Those mountains and hay growing. I would love that.	102	103 Going over a covered bridge - still on that bike ride but heading to truck now.	104 Video of covered bridge going over river.
105 Again - planter envy!!!	106 Spec-ing a fire pit design for a potential customer. It is about this wide...	107 Note the design. Sam did that. Like Minecraft, but better, right?	108 Ben found a buddy to play soccer with while Sam was in hockey!
109	110 Gramma - had to take pictures of these for posterity. Or posterior-ity?	111 Campbell in the middle of the room with a ton of Legos!!!! Those are all HIS! They built an incredible village!	112 Sam, Stanley and Harris built up a snake robot which is attacking me!
113 Robot attacking me!	114 Basketball with Campbell. Ben and Sam really have some great moves! I can't believe Ben can send the basketball between his legs!	115	116 Cream Soda Crew on a farm job - picking up rocks from the pastures! This is Steve Cosgrove, who owns the horse I've been riding (Emmy). Nice family! Sam and I both like the donkeys :)
117	118 Horses looking on in approval!	119 The biggest rock of all!	120 This has got to be a good marketing picture for them some day :)
121 And this one!	122 Then off to Whitethorn Farm to see Janet's latest addition - little colt named Foray.	123	124 Thankfully he can drink milk because that neck isn't long enough to reach grass!
125 Trying to itch a spot - only three legs on the ground!	126	127 Trying out some cavallettis!	128 The cream soda and chips reward after the job!
129	130 Still not tired - they wanted to chop wood!!!	131 But I had broken a mawl, so we had to go to ACE to buy an axe, which turned into 4 axes. Bad mommy. But we needed a new axe for Ben, and a guest axe for Alex. And Sam needed a bigger axe.	132
133	134	135	136 They chopped for about 90 minutes. They love it!
137 Mom had to be very vigilant the whole time so I didn't get to chop too much.	138	139	140
141	142 Isn't this the most pastoral scene?	143 The best snack purveyors on the whole roller hockey team!	144
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149 Then they went outside and did more!	150	151 The chickens are really wondering what is going on.	152
153	154 Ok, Doug, who won this round?	155	156
157 Lots of mountain biking this summer. This is in Port Gamble.	158	159 Followed by very very very good barbeque at Mike's in Port Gamble!	160 Goodness gracious this was good. I don't know why we hadn't been there before, but I think mountain biking then bbq is HEAVEN!
161 Then to a birthday party for new friends - at the climbing gym!	162 Both boys really enjoyed trying it.	163 We're thinking of Uncle Tom!	164
165 Learning to rappel down.	166 Even higher than before!	167 A quick mow before company comes!	168 Ben and I already cleaned house. Trying to help Daddy out by getting all spruced up. Weekends have been so busy with adventuring that the house has taken a hit with boys coming and going all day every day (ours and others!).
169 Ben making salad for the dinner.	170 Sam getting butter ready for peach cobbler.	171	172 Cool panoramic of the team!
173 Mom's Asiatic lilies went nuts!	174 I made Mom a mug with photos of the summer for her birthday. This one was on there!	175 Gorgeous wedding of one of Dave's colleagues. At The Farm Kitchen.