July 4th

Some of the fun happenings on the 4th of July: SUNSHINE! in the morning. church. picnic at the park with Grandma and Grandpa Howard. Parade. Candy. Crazy outfit sightings. Fischer BBQ inside due to rain...many Fischers in a small house! Lots of food!

Cousins

 

These 4 boy cousins are all 7 years old! They enjoyed each other immensely during the few days that they were all together.

Tent Sleeping

 

 

It's hard to imagine myself tent camping ever again, but maybe we will once the kids are ALL old enough to stay down and go to sleep without confinement. In the mean time, the older kids can enjoy sleeping in a tent in the yard. And if they get cold or uncomfortable, they can just come on in to their own beds!

Eclipse

I am so excited that Dana is in town for a month! Since Steph, Dana, and I read the Twilight Saga and the 3rd movie had just come out, it seemed like as good excuse as any to spend the day together! So we drove to Anchorage to watch it on the Imax screen!

The 3 of us were best buds from 8th grade through high school. Now we have 11 kids between us!

 

This is how our husbands feel about Twilight!

Clamming

I don't eat clams, and I don't love digging them either. But I do enjoy going down to the beach during a clam tide to watch all the craziness. And it is crazy! I am amazed every time at the sheer number of vehicles driven on the beach and the many methods people use to dig the clams, the attire they choose to wear on their bodies and their feet, and the mode of transportation they operate and how many people they can get into and on that transport!

Summer Fun

 

Today it is day 2 of rainy, gloomy weather, so I am dreaming about the times we had some fun in the sun. We've enjoyed playing in the back yard here at Grandma and Grandpa Fischers' house, which is very nicely set up for playing and watching kids. Slip n' slide...shish kabobs...trampoline...kiddie pool. There are also a couple of pics from the Kenai River Festival. We spent a couple of hours there and enjoyed some really nice weather! Having the concert is such an improvement, because I could declare a home base with Ollie instead of carrying him around the whole time. He and his gal pal Katie Cox enjoyed flirting and fighting.

House Progress

We're moving along nicely! I enjoyed a day on the jobsite as a worker (no kids!)when the trusses arrived. It also happened to be our 9th anniversary! My job was to hook up the cables from the boom truck to the trusses to be lifted to the tops of the walls. It's so nice to have Mom's motorhome parked there (thanks Mom!) so on nice days the kids and I can hang out, have a bathroom to use, a fridge and stove to cook on, and beds to rest on when necessary! I am also very excited to have a picnic table! This last Sunday we had a hotdog and smores roast over the fire that Carson built in the fire pit he dug. He was in charge of the whole thing!