Summer is coming to an end and ...

we still have fun things to get done.  Where has the summer gone?  It can't be over yet, can it?  In June, I was worried that Paige and I would be bored but that just hasn't happened this summer.  We may have been "too" busy because school starts in two weeks and Paige still does not know how to tie her own shoes and she still does not know how to ride her bike without training wheels.  Those two things were high on my list of things to do this summer.  Oh well, we will get there eventually.  Her fellow classmates and friends can't do one or both of those things either, so I won't worry too much.

Mom, Paige and I just returned from Silverdale, WA.  Just the three of us took a road trip to visit the McMickens, Houns and Aunt Loupy.  It was a great week of relaxation!  Paige hardly paid attention to me as she was so busy hanging out with her 2nd cousins.  One day we took the ferry over to Seattle and met up with my Aunt Loupy and rode The Ducks.  It was a great tour around downtown Seattle and Lake Union.  Later that evening the older boys "kid-sat" the three younger girls while the adults went out to dinner.  The kids did very well on their own.  We have been home for four days and Paige is still telling me little stories here and there about what they did.  One story was about spilling ice cream on Lori's carpet and another was about the smoke alarms going off and the boys hitting the alarms with the broom handle.  It is so funny to listen to her tell her side of the story.  Great memories were made!