Eel Lake

We celebrateed the last day of Summer by camping near Eel Lake on the Oregon coast. It was beautiful! The sun shone the entire three days, the temps were perfect and the kids had a great time. Rich took the kids mountain biking while I read and Hannah slept. On our last day we all went to the little Wildlife Safari on the Southern Coast and got to play with a seven week old white Siberian Tiger cub. She was a cutie - but my personal favorite was the cross-eyed opossum.

Karate Testing

Well - another term of Karate has come and gone. We are all advancing and the things we are learning are getting more and more difficult. We are all getting bigger and brighter bruises but is really is fun.

About 2 weeks ago I was in Wal-Mart with Gannon and he turns to me and says: "Hey mom, I learned how to pop out a person's eye balls!"
"Great," I said, "just don't do it to your brother."

Triathlon - Tri Rocks!

We had our 2nd annual kids triathlon at the lake. This year we had 15 kids participate in a 50 yd swim, 1.5 mile bike & 1 mile run. The kids had a fantastic time and also raised money for the homeschool section at our little local library.

Eli and some of the peaches