The Halcyon Days of Summer...

So I am trying to work in some back blogging in an effort to get caught up before the craziness of the holidays. It may become a bit jumbled going back and forth-sorry! Here are the happenings in our lives over the last couple of months...

When school got out I knew that there were long summer days with kids running crazy through my house and realized that I needed to come up with ways to entertain them which would take them out side as much as possible.  We are so lucky to live in Silverdale because we are surrounded by parks and play grounds, rivers, lakes and even an ocean,  so I figured we should utilized our resources. On this particular day some friends met up with us for lunch at a local park and lake. After eating and chatting we took the kids on a scavenger hunt. We made a list of random things you can find along a typical Washington trail, things like "find a pine cone larger than your hand and one smaller than your hand". We also put things on the list like "find a tree larger than your house". The kids did great and had a really good time completing all the tasks on the list.   

 The end of the scavenger hunt led us to the beach where my kids thought it was warm enough to put their feet in the water, you know, because the sun was out and the thermometer read over 65 degrees. Let me tell you something about my little ones, they LOVE water in NEARLY any form. They will run head long into a lake without looking back, a river provides fresh moving water which they think is boss, and don't even get them close to the ocean because they don't believe in hypothermia.

Pools are another story...Lets just say that their love of all things liquid most certainly does NOT apply to pools. Swim lessons this summer involved lots of tear, but that is another post...

By the end of this summer day - of nearly 67 degrees - the kids were soaked and sleepy and I was looking forward to planning out the days that followed. Boy do I LOVE summer break!

On a side note, this is one of Ella's favorite people, a girl who knows how to play dress up, who values the beauty of red shoes, and who has a spirit of adventure that takes her into a lake on a mildly warm day in her dress.