7.9.17

Once again, I love summer! Here is the PNW, it has been beautiful! In the mid to upper 70s.. maybe 80 and sunshine!
I love Fourth of July! Besides the meaning of it.. I love the festivities! We have been going to Tumwater for the last few years. Darri and I were trying to calculate and we think 11 years.. with occasionally missing a year here or there when we go on vacation, but usually I plan around it because I love it so much. We try to gather as many friends around as we can and sit on the grassy area and visit and people watch until the fireworks start. We like to get there early, so there's plenty of time to visit. There is sky divers, music, lots of people (they said they estimated 12,000 this year) and of course fireworks!



There is this overlook park in Tumwater that I recently discovered. It's beautiful up there, on a clear day you can see the Olympics, the Bay, the Capitol, and Mt. Rainier. We needed to do something on the west side and he sun was going down, so we rushed over there to see this! Of course, pictures don't do it justice!

Can you see Mt. Rainier? Sorry Guinto's that we didn't see it when you were here!


Yesterday, we went to Riffe Lake in Mossyrock. It's off of highway 12, just past Chehalis. If you continue on Highway 12, you end up in eastern WA in Yakima.
I'd never been there before and it was beautiful, sunny and 78 degrees.


And of course a Hazel pic! This week, Keagan and I are making a quick trip to Utah, we're leaving Tuesday morning, driving all day and coming back Thursday with Hazel!!! We're so excited.... and a smidge nervous about how worn out we'll be..
Melissa and Chaz will come the next week to visit and pick her up! Lucky us!

If anyone wants to drive with me home to wa on Thursday, let me know. I don't know how you'd get back..


So next week.. overload of Hazel! and Daneah is getting married!!!
Families are Forever! (And good friends)
Love you all!
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Ps. Keagan turns in his eagle project tomorrow! He's getting his final signatures! And Saturday he turns 18!!!! Holy cow! I'm so glad I started him a year late in school so he's around one more year. And then the letters will be to him!!!
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