Monday, June 30, 2008

Summer Fun

After three long years of Tom working on his masters and internship to become a principal, he is FINALLY finished! To celebrate, we have been out non-stop every day since. It's like we're making up for lost time (he hasn't had a summer break in three years - which we teachers are used to. Yes, we know - we're spoiled). The day after he finished, we took a trip to the zoo. The kids had a blast and did an absolutely fabulous job! The next day we ventured out to go strawberry picking - which Lowa and Whitt thoroughly enjoyed. Abraham wasn't so down with it - but liked sitting in daddy's backpack! The next day we ventured out to the beach and roasted! It was such a lovely day filled with sand castles, eating strawberries and splashing in the water. Today we spent time with our best friends and enjoyed watching the kids run through the sprinklers, eat ice cream cones and we all enjoyed a delicious BBQ. Needless to say, summer is here for us and we are THOROUGHLY taking advantage of it and enjoying every minute!


I had to start with this picture! Look at that HUGE snot bubble coming out of his nose. We were cracking up!


Lowa and Whitt posing (with a bit of coaxing) with the monkeys.


Look at the picture in the background - it's of the African continent. At the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle there is an African Village Area with a schoolhouse, huts and more. Lowa and Whitt played the drums and Abraham had a great time dancing. It was so precious and made me miss Ethiopia!


Lowa getting busy picking strawberries.


We worked pretty hard and picked three buckets full - YUM - strawberry jam here we come!


"I love hanging with my dad. It's one of my favorite places to be!"


Whitt showing off his strawberry! So cute!


Hmmm, what am I thinking about? I have no clue!


Posing with my beautiful Lowa. I love having a girl! We both had our scarves on our heads this day - quite fun!


Abraham hanging with his hat on. Love that face!


Whitt loves to throw rocks - one of his favorite past times. Here he is showing one off before he tosses it in the water!

11 comments:

Melissa said...

Your photos are priceless! How beautiful to see your family having so much fun and learning and smiling! How blessed you all are! Thank you for letting us all share in your joy!

The Redman's said...

Looks like fun, fun, fun!! I'd love to meet you guys up at that beach sometime! Let's pick a sunny day and go for it! Jake could look for crabs and throw rocks in the water ALL day long!!! :)

-Suzi

Jana said...

Thanks for your comments Kristin, yes sometimes I just can't believe I landed such a sweet husband. And I think your pictures are so great, summer, ahhh what a relief. And yes, the phone is with me at all times. I work part-time in post-anesthesia and was so nervous I would get the call yesterday when I was taking care of patients. Today is a day off so I have been coaxing the phone! :)

Eastiopians said...

Just found your blog. Love it!

Unknown said...

Kristin!

I can't believe how beautiful your family is. Did you know we "officially" have a little girl now! Praising God everywhere today.

Eastiopians said...

Hey! Well, we are in the "picking an agency" stage. We chose our country, Ethiopia, in May. We have a picnic with AGCI in a week and then a CHI info meeting in August. We hope to put in our application as early as September to whichever agency we choose. We have narrowed our search to AGCI, CHI and Gladney. But, we are leaning more towards AGCI right now.

Anonymous said...

Looks like you are having a wonderful summer. Enjoy your family.

Unknown said...

I just realized that Sam had that same hat when he was a baby. My husband didn't like it, but it was so darned cute. It's even cuter on Abraham.

Thanks for your encouraging words. I'm so happy to see so many referrals, and to be traveling soon as well.

Braedensmommy said...

Love, love, love all of the picks ESPECIALLY the snot bubble (hey, I'm a goofball). I am so glad that you guys are having such a good time! Gotta love summer!!
Megan

Erin said...

Isn't it nice to finally get dried out by some lovely sunshine! What a pile of cute kids you've got.

Erin

sar said...

i'm so looking forward to snot bubbles and rock throwing and matching scarves!

i'm coming to everett WA in a few weeks [[my home town]] and it's too bad AGCI doesn't have a picnic...i would love to meet all the washingtonian ethiopian families!

i absolutely love the looks abraham gives you...too cute!

hope you enjoy the summer sun!

sarah