Saturday, August 28, 2010

4H sewing

-E- enjoys being a member of the 4H club. She is learning sewing skills. It has been a hectic summer and she in a crunch to finish her project this year. She chose a plaid fabric and shorts pattern. The challenge was matching the plaid together. She modelled her shorts in the fashion review and won a top model award.

 She was very excited about it. She also got a blue ribbon on her project for her sewing skills. Way to go!

Friday, August 27, 2010

Summer fun in OR

We headed off to Oregon at the beginnig of August. Spalding stayed home this trip. He is saving up his vacation days for our trip to Mauritius in December. Anyway, we started at the Isaacson family reunion. I really enjoy seeing my cousins and Aunts and Uncles. Its fun for my kids to get to know their extended family as well. We spent lots of time swimming in the pool.

The weather was great. We had fun visiting and -L- became toothless. No more corn on the cob for her for a while.
After the family reunion, we headed to my parents house and spent some time there. We went backpacking.  Jared's girls came along too. 
The kids all were great hikers. It was the first trip for Jared's girls and for -L-. Unfortunately it rained on us, so we didn't get to go to any of the lakes. We stayed in the meadow for a night and came out the next morning, a day early.
At my parents, all the grandkids were there except Audra's new little baby. It was busy at the house. Lots of kids and lots of fun for the cousins.
We enjoyed riding on the horses in the pasture.
Then we enjoyed 4 wheeling in the neighbor's pasture.
It was a nice vacation. It's always good to come back home, but we had lots of fun while we were away.