Dog Day Afternoons

Our library in Ferndale offers a program to kids called

"Dog Day Afternoons".

Kids can sign up to read to a dog.

Annalise was SUPER excited!!!!!

This girl LOVES animals!!!

She really enjoyed her two afternoons with Luna.

 

Father's Day

A day for Dad.
And this year, we had two in the house!
Gramps was here to help celebrate Avery's black belt, too!

They awoke with gifts.
These girls sure love their Daddy!

 (Yes, that's a FROZEN gift bag.  Don't judge, we're in a temporary living situation and it was a carry-over from Annalise's birthday.  She thought it would be fine. 😊 )

We took a quick trip out to the new house so Gramps could check it out in person!
(He approved!!!)

The boys wanted to get outside so we decided to do the hike along north Lake Whatcom.
It was a great day!!

 

Happy Father's Day to these amazing men in our lives!

 

And to Grandpa....who may not be here with us today, but has been a constant reminder 

and example of what a great Dad (and human being in general) should be!

 

We love and appreciate you so much.

Avery's Black Belt Ceremony

After years of hard work and dedication Avery has earned her BLACK BELT in Taekwondo!

We are so proud of her!

This was a sport that she chose all on her own.

She didn't have friends that were doing it...she's done this all for herself!

She persisted and despite a crazy busy schedule, sits here today.

She had the loudest cheering section of any others!!

The "village" showed up.

CONGRATULATIONS AVERY!!!!!

 

It's SUMMER!!!!!

Ahhhh.....

we made it!!!!

Here we are...finally summer!

We celebrated with some strawberry picking and sleepovers!

And of course some strawberry shortcake!!!

It was such a nice day, we decided we should head to the water for a bit!

We knew there would be TONS of people at the sandy beach so we headed to the more secluded rocky beach.  Still felt good to be outside!!!

And the grown ups got a bit of a treat, too!

We went to the Train Wreck in Burlington for a "breakfast Mary".

Wow!  We'll definitely be going back!!!!!

 

Star Park

We love our little town of Ferndale.

They've been working for a couple of years to get a new park in town.

They solicited donations and volunteers to build it.

It's finished and we're proud to show off our "picket".

Way to go Ferndale!!!!

Last Days of School

We've had a crazy end to the school year.

Moving, selling and buying houses....

we are all ready to have some vacation time!

First we had to get through these last days of school.

Avery had an all district Orchestra concert at FHS.

And Annalise and I got to spend our first Skyline Play Day together!

Summer can't get here fast enough!!!!