Pumpkins & Halloween

Another fun year at our neighbor’s family pumpkin patch. The weather was beautiful and we enjoyed the company of our longtime friends, Jessica, Owen and Henry. The girls also enjoyed carving their pumpkins and dressing up as Elsa & Anna for Halloween 🙂

Summer Play

A random assortment of summer pictures. The girls enjoyed playing in the backyard with each other and with friends.

My Birthday

Todd took the day off way back at the start of May for my birthday. We spent the day as a family in and around Fairhaven. We started the morning by taking the kids to Larrabee State Park to explore the beach and tide pools. We found starfish, sea anemones, crabs, tiny shrimp and a deer. For lunch we headed to one of my favorite places, Fairhaven Poke, then shared a giant donut at Rocket Donuts (Ruby got her own). Afterwards we enjoyed the boardwalk and Boulevard Park, it was a gorgeous day!

More Maui

An assortment of pictures near Kihei and Wailea. We spent a lot of time in the pool, girls loved it. We also ate lots of “Hawaiian” cuisine and drove around to explore.

Kapalua Beach

Kapalua was one of our two favorite snorkeling beaches to visit. It took about an hour to reach it, a bit far considering other great beaches, but totally worth it. The beach is beautiful and sheltered with a nice walking trail around the resorts.

We also stopped in Lahaina on our way back to see the banyan tree and get ice cream 🙂

Road to Hana

The third day into our vacation we decided to drive to Hana. It was a beautiful drive with lots of windy roads. We also learned Ruby gets car sick on windy roads. Thankfully I brought 2 outfits, a swimsuit, and lots of baby wipes because we needed all of it! She got sick going and coming, poor thing. Despite the car sickness we had fun stopping to see turtles, an old church, a black sand beach and then finish the day with donuts 🙂

Silver Lake

Another fun (and close) adventure with the family. We rented a paddle boat for an hour then let the kids ride their bikes and play on the playground before heading home.

Summer Miscellany

I have condensed a few posts into one, there were too many this year 🙂

The girls having fun in the hammock with dad, bike riding, camping in the backyard, and new outfits.

Ada continued in swim lessons, this time with one of her good friends, Owen.

The eclipse was pretty cool, we viewed it old school because I forgot to buy glasses, oops.

Todd filled our only dirt spot with water for a muddy fun day while I was away.

North Cascades/Winthrop

One weekend in August we made a quick trip through the North Cascades. We stopped at the visitor center for lunch then drove to Diablo Lake for the kids to swim. The water was freezing so we didn’t stay long. We then drove to the cute little western town of Winthrop for dinner and ice cream.

Pumpkin Patch & Halloween

Had another fun year at our neighbor’s family pumpkin patch. The kids love the activities and horse rides. We enjoy the wagon ride too. Ada was allowed to pick any pumpkin this year, she chose a 35lb one. Lots of fun to carve! The girls enjoyed Halloween dress up and getting lots of candy 🙂