This is what summer looks like!

From 2012-07-02 Bremerton

 Over the past two weeks we have been up in Bremerton fixing up our rental. After 3 months we finally got our squatters evicted. Huzzah. So we were hard at work turning this:

Got to love that hole in the floor and strange bed creation in the back room huh?
To this:

  Much better don't you think?  Daniel did most of the work, but we couldn't have done it without the help of my parents and sister looking after our kids. It wasn't all work and no play though, we went up to horseshoe lake and an wonderful garden on our way to the light house at Point on Point.

  Lizzy and Charles were excited to spend so much time with their cousins and Grand parents. Then we celebrated the 4th in true Martin fashion with "The War." The war consists of  opponents setting off a bunch of moving fireworks at each other. It is quite exciting and dangerous, but fun to watch. Here's the lineup:

From 2012-07-09 Bremerton

Jessica made a wonderful birthday cake that looked like the flag inside.

From 2012-07-09 Bremerton

We left before it got too late, the kids were zoning big time. It was a fun celebration.