Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Grandma Camp with "The Eights"


This year's camp was named "FANS"...FOOD/FUN...ART...NATURE...SCIENCE...and we made fans to represent! (We watched Disney's "Polly" and danced along...shaking those fans!)




We combined food and art (chocolate pudding finger-painting)for lots of fun..."Grandma can we lick it??!!" Of course!!



We read "Hailstones and Halibut Bones" by Mary O'Neill from BEREA, OHIO! As we listened to each "color" poem, we thought about what color means to us...we each picked our favorite color and created collages to express our ideas.

Our nature walk yielded beautiful specimens which we affixed to our duct tape bracelets.



For the science portion of our camp experience, we watched the different ways color disperses in fresh water, and salt water...AND we combined colors to see what would happen...F-A-N-S Camp was FUN!!!

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Summer 2010


We started our vacation in Long Beach, Washington...it is one of our favorite places on the coast...then we spent a few days in Seaside, Oregon...drove from there to Tillamook (ice cream), Rockaway (best clam chowder anywhere!), Garibaldi (bakery)...hmmm...we do more than eat, honestly!



I took a crash course in cranberry growing...I thought we would see the "bogs" but that doesn't happen until harvest...


We explored caves at Hug Point...


We had to have a hug at Hug Point...unfortunately my arm isn't long enough to get a photo of the actual hug...you get the idea!

Bailey had her second annual Grandma Camp...with a French theme this year! We learned French words, ate French food, made a French message board and magnets, watched "The Red Balloon" and filmed our own version...Bailey wrote the script and acted, and Grandma videoed! It was tres, tres bien!


We enjoyed a trip to the zoo to see the new African exhibit.

We got up close to some cute little critters on the Wallaby Walkabout.

For Father's Day, the whole family met in the park for an outdoor movie night (Saturday night)...we didn't know what to expect, but we were ready for FUN! The girls were up dancing to The Blackeyed Peas..."I Got a Feeling" tonight's gonna be a good, good night!!!!!!!!

Once again, Dallin played in his high school alumni baseball game...he pitched 2 innings this year! He hadn't thrown a baseball in the year since his last game! He did well...and his team won!

Mia and McKena were baptized on the same day...June 5...they had their 8th birthdays 2 weeks apart, and looked forward to this very special day!

Brooklyn's ballet recital...Swan Lake...Lovely!