Staying home enjoying our summer!

We had swimming lessons again and Mallory is a little fish!

 And while she was swimming Andrew was waiting around, and for a few cute cousins to swing witH.

 We've mostly been hanging out at home this week, catching up on playing, laundry, dishes and having a chill week.

 Swimming lessons again....Mallory doing the Jelly Fish float.

 Malachi was able to take a vacation day on Friday and we had a family day! We went to Owens beach and played in the water!

 Then we went to the zoo and had a fun time looking at all the animals

 Feeding the buggies

 ...and riding the carousel.

 Saturday we went to the farmers market and then headed to the batting cages and hit a few garage sales.

 Then we came home...it's nice sometimes to just hang out at home, do puzzles and spend time together.

 Here are Malachi and Andrew making brownies!

Cub Scout Camp

This week Andrew and I went to cub scout camp! This was my first year as cub master and since I needed to be there all 4 days Andrew got to come too, even though he still has 2 months before he turns 8!

 I was in charge of 12 right year old boys, we had a really fun time, but I was exhausted after camp each day!

 We did BB guns, chess, archery, history, geology, map and compass, woodworking, leather working, painting.....

 We made helmets and swords and shields, we learned about flag ceremonies, played soccer, field hockey and ultimate frisbee...

 Andrews BB gun aim improved throughout the week....you can't see but 4 out of his 5 shots are in the black!

 We even had a falconer come during lunch one day. He brought his red tailed hawk to show us, the boys thought it was amazing!

 it was a long week, but Andrew had a fun time

 Friday Malachi got up and went to work, but we had both forgotten that he had taken Friday off

 so he came home and we had a family day, went out to lunch...

 and mini golfing

 then out for ice cream... Mallory is Unikitty (from the Lego movie)

Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match....

We started off this week going to Malachi'.s work party. It's the first one we've gone to, even though he's worked there for 6 years because they don't normally invite kids!

 We had a great time, super yummy food catered from Dickies BBQ, snowcone machine, a bouncy house, and a spray (dunk) tank! It was at a park that had regular park toys and was right on the beach!  it was fun to talk to all the men Malachi works with and put faces with names!

 Mallory started swim lessons this week!

 a lady in our ward hosted a music day camp for a bunch of the kids and invited Mallory!

 after their camp all the kids did a little performance! It was super cute!

 then when Mallory came home all she wanted to do was sing and play her Kazoo

 besides that we spent a lot of time around the house playing, making messes and having a good time!

 I love how Crazy Andrew looks in this picture!

 on Saturday we went garage saling all day and then dropped the kids off at grandma and grandpa Swifts house for a sleepover (thank you so much) and Malachi and I went on a kid free real date!

 We hit a few more garage sales, shopped at value village then went to the main stage theatre in Sumner to see Fiddler on the roof. It was an awesome production, and we both really enjoyed it! Then after that we had a late night dinner and did some more shopping. It was so nice to spend time with each other! We went for a walk, we talked, got ice cream.....I'm so happy that we got to celebrate yesterday because today is our 7 year anniversary!

 I love this man with all my heart and am so happy to be his wife. These past 7 years have not exactly been easy for us, but they have also been filled with immeasurable joy and hope. I look forward to the future, I think the next 7 years will be better than ever!

Vacation week!!

Malachi was off work all week, but not for a real vacation he was home recovering from a little procedure, and I was really sick this week so we spent a lot of time sitting around doing nothing.
When we needed an outing we would run a few errands, do some shopping....while we were out we ran into Anna and Christoff!

 one of the days we went to go see "How to train your Dragon 2". I loved the first one and was a little disappointed by the story plot of the second one. But the animation was incredible, they maintained the integrity of the character development, and it was fun to go see a movie with the family.

 Since Malachi was off we wanted to spend some time with Spencer. Then we went on a little road trip to Squeim.

 First stop was the Oak table with super yummy breakfast! Then a bit of shopping around town. After that we went to Dungeness spit. We only did the mile hike, not the 11 miles so we did not get to see the lighthouse, maybe next time!

 We did explore the beach a bit and see Canada!

 Our next adventure was the Olympic game farm! We had lots of fun feeding the animals!

 And seeing the lions, Tiggers and Bears! Oh my!!

 A compleatly fun little get away! Saturday we left the boys at home and Mallory and I went and got the car washed (there was zebra slobber on it from the game farm) went to a few garage sales and went out to lunch! It was lots of fun, just us girls!!