New Store / New Beach

Here's Jeremy's store all put together. He did a great job setting it up. They've been doing pretty well. Lots of tourists. They've learned that they need to carry smaller sizes 'cause the Orientals are small people and only wear small and mediums.

This is a new beach we found and have gone to a couple times now. It's called Kayak Point. This one's on the ocean. It's only 15 min. away, pretty cool huh? It has a camping area, lots of picnic tables, a big playground, fishing off the pier, swimming, boating. What doesn't it have. A fun place to come and hang out for the day.


People fish off this pier and launch there boats here. We only bought a fresh water license so only lakes for us to fish in. But it's fun to watch and look in there buckets to see what they caught. Someday soon I want to go crabbing. Not sure how or where, but is sounds fun and yummy.

They're looking for little crabs......

Like this one.
They are everywhere under your feet and you don't even know it.

What in the heck is this??? It's an 18 legged star fish or something. Dead though. Never seen that before.

And a weird looking fish that I can't remember it's name. It looks like a blow fish. Dead too washed up on the shore.

Just down the beach is this house. I wouldn't mind living there. Pretty good set up with amazing views. Maybe someday.

So despite missing our old life we're having fun with our new life as well, as you can see.

Weekend Fun

When we go to Wenatchee we're in camping mode the whole time. Roasting hotdogs, smores and a campfire in the middle of the day. (and no tent, the best kind of camping)

2 weekends ago we took off without Jeremy to Wenatchee. He was busy working all weekend so off we went to hang out with the fam.

The trees provide just enough shade to sit back and relax, read and just hang out.

Who doesn't love a roasted marshmellow put inbetween chocolate and graham crackers?

And the pool is the perfect place to cool off.

Jumpin' with a smile

Cuzzin Buddies

Jeter and Tibby got along great, they even learned how to lay next to eachother happily without Jeter biting Tibby's bum and trying to get on top of her. They're best friends now.

Swingin' at "the park".

The swing set is only 50 feet from the house but MJ asks to go swing at the park as if it's down the block.

Oh and the 4 wheeler. They couldn't get enough of riding it.

They each took turns pretty well. It's just the right size for them to ride.

And even MJ rode it by herself too. Only 1 crash into a tree turning a little to sharp. No injuries or harm to the bike though.

And to top the weekend off we went out to dinner with Bob and Linda to Larry's Drive In for the best chicken strips out there. My mouth waters just thinking about dipping the chicken in the tarter sauce. MMmmm...

Our New Discoveries

Our first stop was in Boise at my sister Staci's for baby Allison's blessing. MJ loved holding her. Isn't she precious?

The 3 girls


at dinner


On our way over the Pass from Wenatchee to Marysville we stopped at a Reptile Zoo just off the road in Monroe. Mason was the only one with us. The other 2 went with my parents for a few days while we found a place. Mason was in heaven. His smile says it all.

This is the Black Mambo the #1 deadliest snake in the world. They had the top 10 and much more. Pythons, alligators, tortoises, other snakes and crazy reptiles.

Mason and I discovered this park just down the road from our house. There's multiple lakes all around us. This one has a beach and dock. So pretty.

Mason talked Jeremy into getting a fishing license so they can go a lot now. Mason and George love to fish.

Swimmin' fun

It's only 80 deg. but still warm enough to burn and swim.

Who needs a pool when you've got fun like this?

It's really shallow for the kids to walk around or swim.

Playin' with mud. They got into a mud war at one point.

Sat. we drove down to the city and just had to drive by the stadiums of course. This is home of the Mariners.

...and home of the Seahawks.

And then headed to Pikes Place Market to walk around.

Mount Rainier has been visible the whole time we've been here with the great weather. From our house you can see Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier.

The fish markets

The beautiful flowers, next time I'm buying some.

The crowds

The whole day we either got comments on how cute Jeter was and what kind of dog he was or on George's shirt. It says Sister for Sale $1.00 negotiable. It was pretty funny. I guess nobody has seen either before. Everyone was so talkative and friendly yet weird at the same time. We haven't seen this much smoking or tattoos in a long time.

We only drove by the Space Needle to show the kids. We'll go up it another day.

Sunday we took a drove up to Mt. Vernon (home of Glen Beck as Jeremy pointed out), to Deception Pass and drove down Whidbey Island, took a Ferry across and then back home. One big circle.

This is Rosario Beach. It's right before you get to Deception Pass.

There were tide pools to discover small creatures.

Deception Pass. There's 2 bridges that pass over the water to the island.

A path to the beach

View from the beach

My poser

Too many fun rocks to throw. George is good at skipping them.

The Ferry

There first ride

They had their first Shirley Temples at a local Mexican Restaraunt. It's a lot like Los Hermanos. Good stuff. There was a magician that came to our table when we were done eating. He did some good stricks for the kids with cards and small squishy balls. MJ's reactions were hilarious. She was so amazed and kept saying "How'd you do that?" I was laughing so hard it made me cry and other people in the restaraunt were laughing too. To funny. That's all they talked about the rest of the day.

We've been helping Jeremy get his store set up. This was MJ's first job, to take the mugs out of the bubble wrap and put the price tags on the bottom.

George was organizing the hats

And Mason started out organizing hats too. I was hanging t-shirts and jerseys on hangers, which there are 100's of maybe 1000's by the time we're done. They were so good at working and helping. It felt like the first time since we got here that they were productive and not fighting constantly. They really enjoyed it. We're helping 'cause Jeremy hasn't hired anyone yet, he spent the day doing interviews while we helped set up.

So as you can tell we're having a great time adjusting to our new life up here. We're loving it.