Fruit Salad!

Our garden has been producing strawberries for awhile now.  The kids have loved picking and eating those.

They've been carefully watching the blueberries and raspberries and decided today that the first ones were ready!

So they each made a fruit salad today. It had many strawberries. Then, they each had 1 blueberry and 1 raspberry.

We've gotten broccoli, asparagus,  and lettuce too, but for some reason the kids don't make vegetable salads the way they do fruit salad.

Last Day of Sunday School

I snapped a few pictures of Elizabeth doing activities on the last day of Sunday school. 

Feather blowing races

Squirting rocks with water! 

Queen of the Stump

Elizabeth likes to stand up here and yell, "I'm queen of the stump!!!" 

The Coldest Place on Earth

Laura, I think you'll like this conversation I had with Nathan.

We were talking about different places on earth.

Me: "Nathan, is Antarctica the coldest place on Earth?"
Nathan: "Yes."
Me: "So where is the second coldest place on Earth? The Arctic?"
Nathan: "No. Spokane."

I think he listened to us complaining  (frequently) about those 6 month winters!

WSU vs. Gonzaga

The Cougar baseball team came to Pasco to play the Gonzaga Bulldogs tonight! We decided to go to the game. 

Elizabeth with Butch Cougar. She said she whispered, "Uncle Brian, is that you?" 

Kids with Butch. Papa Norm in background. 

With Gram-hugging her Butchy. 

It was sure a perfect evening for a game! It was 82 degrees with no wind! Not too cold, not too hot! 

It was funny because on the way to the game, Nathan had been moping about how he hadn't seen his kindergarten teacher for awhile. We sat down at the game, and she showed up along with the principal and several teachers from his old school! Here he rushed up to hug her. 

She sat and talked with him for the first 3 innings! He was elated! So far in his short elementary education career, his teachers have all been WSU grads! 3/3! I'm sure the streak will not last forever, but it's been fun. 

A selfie with Dad.

Another selfie

I took Elizabeth home at 8:30 because she was started to complain about being tired. Papa and Gram also left when we left. The boys stayed for the whole game though! After the game, there was a fireworks show! Nathan loved that. He also got a picture with "Dusty" the Dust Devil who is the usual mascot here AND Butch. 

The Cougars lost 5-2. 

Brian and Karen Reception

Here are some pictures I took at the wedding reception. 

Auntie Laura with the kids. 

Auntie Laura and Elizabeth

Auntie Laura and Nathan

Me and the kids

A family photo

Jeremy and I

Jeremy and Elizabeth

Elizabeth checking to make sure her flower petals were still there. 

The Wakeman extended family. The wind really picked up toward the end of the day!

The Villager extended family

The Villager family

Jeremy and Brian dancing. 

Elizabeth spinning her dress around. 

Karen throwing her bouquet. One of her bridesmaids caught it! 

Nathan dancing with Karen. 

More dancing. 

Cake cutting

Garter belt toss. Nathan won! It was just him and that one other guy. I guess Nathan will be the next one married! 

Brian and Karen's Wedding!!

Here are the pictures from the wedding! 

Uncle Rod, Aunt Susie, Uncle Doug and Teri waiting. 

  

Aiden, Abramm, Michele, and Uncle John waiting. 

Jeremy escorting Carol down the aisle. 

Here are the pictures of Elizabeth as flower girl. She did a great job!

She was very careful to sprinkle the petals all over. Laura said that she saw her miss a spot, so she turned around and went back to add more petals. 

Thank you Papa Ray and Kim for all the petals! They picked all their roses. 

Nathan was quite quick with his ring bearer duties. He rushed up the aisle very quickly. He did not want to be seen in the bow tie. 

Elizabeth standing with the girls. 

Here come Karen and her Dad. 

Nathan standing with the boys. 

The ceremony

The veil was quite beautiful but the wind liked to blow it around!

Karen's Mom helping adjust her veil. 

I didn't get any pictures of them leaving. It happened so quickly!