Day 212

I can now use all keys on my laptop again without any additional effort. Thank you Mike! My cousin and I took the boys out shopping and while we were gone, Mike changed out the keyboard of my laptop. Due to travel and two boys, my keyboard had seen better days. Now to keep the little fingers from popping off the keys....

Day 211

My family is starting to come into town for a few days. Mike has taken off the whole week for vacation for our time at the beach and then to work on projects around the house. Today, he had a helper. One of the projects was to nail the bathroom door trim back into the wall. I think all my boys just want to use power tools.

Day 210

No, this isn't a typo people. It was blasted hot today. Seattle has been in a heat wave this week and luckily we had been camping at Cama Beach, but today we had to come home to the heat. Amazingly, our upstairs was only 82 degrees and the basement was about 78 degrees. We will survive and pray for cooler weather to return.

Day 209

This morning after a communal breakfast of eggs, sausage, pancakes and coffee, our crew set off to hike up to Cranberry Lake. The hike is about a mile to the lake and then a mile back to the cabins. The kids did a great job and discovered huckleberries along the trail. We stopped at the lake for drinks and snacks before heading back. The "lake" was basically a pond with quite a bit of vegetation growing in it.

Day 208

Another fabulous day of camping water side. The dads went golfing this morning and the moms didn't want to the boys to get in the water yet, so the boys compromised and decided to throw rocks into the water instead.

Day 207

Two families, three nights of camping, four parents and five children. How much stuff did we bring again?? For the next few nights we are having the privilege of staying at Cama Beach State Park in the waterfront cabins. Some dear friends of ours booked the cabins back in October of last year for these few days and invited us to go along. One of the neat perks of the camp site is no cars are allowed down by the cabins, so you must shuttle all your items down in the van. It only took one truck and one shuttle car to get all of us and our stuff down to the cabins. Let the vacation begin.

Day 206

This morning we headed to Camano Island State Park for our annual Sunday school class camping trip. Mike and I are only staying one night because of Mike's travel schedule, but one night in a tent is fine with me. Andy had been running around with all the other boys and was completely filthy at this point and he decided he needed a rest. Mom was just enjoying the fellowship with friends and not having to worry too much about what the kids were up too.

Day 205

This is what happens when your toddler gets a hold of your computer.

I do have another keyboard on order since the ESC, F1, 2, and SHIFT keys are either broken or missing components in order to reattach to the keyboard. Oh well, makes life more interesting when you are trying to type.

Day 204

Tonight is our fellowship night and for now we are studying, Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster. This book was originally published back in 1975 when most of us in the group were very small children or not around yet. This copy is the 3rd printing which came out in 1996, but the information doesn't change, like the Word of God doesn't change. The topic of study is meditation. Should be an interesting discussion...

Day 203

In preparation of our camping trip to the beach, I went in search of water shoes today.

The store: Sears,

The price: On sale, even better.

Now, I just have to finish packing for everyone and everything and we will be ready for some fun at the beach camping with great friends.