Where has the Summer Gone?

Here we are in October and I haven't posted a thing in months. Agggh! This will be remedied! So on with the show...

Grandma came to visit along with Theya so we took them to the Fort. Here they are playing a ring toss game. Looking Fabulous Mom!
 

I can't get him to do this at home. Maybe I should have Daniel build one Hmm..




And had a mini cone:

We got prehistoric at Omsi.



digging up bones.



And got some new chicks.
The kids tried out Karate:

Our apple tree cracked:

Got a little wet.


Played with the cousins.



Gearing up for the forth of July parade.



And just had a blast.

Busy Bees

In case you were wondering, here's the story of our bees: We had wanted to have hives for a little while now. Daniel went to all the classes offered locally. We read up on beekeeping and finally purchased the accouterments for 2 hives. The magic day arrived and I, wanting to document this momentous occasion, stood back camera at the ready. Daniel set up the hives and began opening the boxes that the bees were shipped in.

He couldn't get the smoker to work so he just went ahead and transferred the panels of bees. Here's one of the boxes the bees came in:

Here's our empty hive.



 At this point I stopped taking pictures since one of the bees decided to investigate my hair and that was quite distracting! When it stung me I abandoned all decorum and ran for the hose. After a good soaking I went inside to find an ice pack for my throbbing head. Poor Daniel just helplessly looked on as I scrambled around quite frantic. When he finished transferring the last of the bees he came in and removed the stinger for me. That was great.
 Since then I haven't had any issues with them though. Devon even hugs the hives and the bees just fly around him! After a few months I had Daniel take some shots of the hive. Hopefully we  can get some honey this year!

Lizzy!

So my little girl is now 6, or as the lady at the American Girl Doll store told us, " She is 2 hands now!" She has had an amazing year at school and is so excited to be a first grader. She won this award for participating in reader Olympics. Her class out read the entire school! 
So to celebrate her new year, we planed a party going to the American Girl Doll store for dinner and taking 3 Generation photos with Grandma Gutierrez while we were there. So Lizzy and I went looking for pink shirts and we found Olaf!

Lizzy went on a field trip with her class to the Oregon Children's museum and then had cupcakes. Later on we went to her school for the farewell party. They did their first cake walk.

Then it was Off to Lynnwood, my old stomping grounds! 
Sorry this is sideways.

We played around before having dinner at the American Girl store. It was Fun, but the service was SLOW. There were 2 other groups dining so there was no good reason for the slow service. We had fun though it was a long day for everyone.

This is the outfit I got for Lizzy's doll.