August Highlights

Here are a few highlights from August that I didn't have time to blog about.

Obe got married this month and it was so fun to catch up with old friend and celebrate!

We miss our friends from Cali! It was so fun to spend a night with them!

The Gig Harbor Crew!

Me and my sweetie!

Great friends!

Dylan was excited to visit the zoo and feed the birds!

Oh no, they are getting eaten by a shark!

Look at my huge zucchini from Grandpa's garden! Also, notice that Grandma accidentially put me in a pair of Taylors pants. It is a really cute look!

The dryer is a really cool place to hang out! Luckily I bought the one with extra capacity!

Go Huskies!

Dylan and Chloe hanging out in the yard.

The kids are helping dad get the deck ready to be stained.

Having some fun at the Cougar Mountain Zoo.

Taylor feeding the ducks.

Dylan is fishing at the duck pond.

Family movie night!

Taylor is trying out the potty. She gone a few times and thinks it is really fun!

Look at our cool hats from our Fairy God Mother!

The girls hanging out at boys bookclub.

Look at these cool explorers!

Wow, that is a big bloody fish! He is so excited!

So proud!

Papa's got the big one!

Eating dinner at the club.

Taylor is practicing her swing.

Look at my handsome guy cleaning the roof.

My first ponytail!

Summer fun in the jungle!

Looks like someone just woke up from a nap.

Who needs snow to play with the sled.

Dylan at his swim lessons.

Ready to go frog hunting!

Celebrating 9 years of marriage.

Look at our cool fish!

You can't tell someone likes fishing. Papa has a new fishing buddy for life!

Summer fun!

So nice to cool off!

Celebrating 40 Years!

We had a really fun weekend celebrating Nana and Papa's 40th wedding anniversary! The weekend was beautiful and we spent most of it outside enjoying the sun.

We went to the pool and Taylor was having so much fun jumping in!

Uncle Eric took Dylan out for a ride in the rowboat.

Taylor wishes she was out on the rowboat! She loves Uncle Eric!

We threw Nana and Papa a surprise dinner party with a few of their close friend at the Green Turtle. We sat outside and enjoyed beautiful views, wonderful friends and delicious food!

The Happy Couple!

The next day we took the kayaks out for spin.

Dylan loves running around the sandy beach and getting super dirty!

He also loves taking a dip in the sound, pretty chilly!

Dylan got SO dirty Papa had to hose him off. It was a super fun weekend!

We caught the BIG ONE!!

Dylan's obsession this week has been catching animals in his net. He loves going to the pond to try and catch frogs. When we can't go to the pond he hunts for squirrels, cats and birds in the neighborhood. I'm not that exciting to Dylan (or a very good frog hunter, according to him), so Dylan was ecstatic when Joel was able to come frog hunting with us! On our (or Joel's) first try we caught the biggest frog in the pond!!!!

He was so big that I that he didn't even bother to struggle that much. He had to be about 4-5 inches across when he was laying flat on the ground.

Here is the big one!!

The boys were really excited and now Dylan's goal is to catch it himself. We told him it might take some practice, but hopefully soon Dylan will be the one to snatch up a frog!

Welcome to the Schmit family, Hermie!

At the beginning of this day we had no idea we would end up with a pet, but after one animal release and another animal returned to the store, we finally made it home with Hermie the hermit crab. We started talking with Dylan about a pet a few days earlier. We decided that he could earn a pet (we were thinking Beta fish) after he showed us 9 days (he picked the number of days) of making good choices. We had only earned 1 sticker on our chart when we found out from Grandma and Grandpa that Dylan had caught a tree frog at their house. Long story short, he thought he was going to keep the tree frog, but I felt bad for it and I also didn't want to have to buy crickets for it to eat each week. We decide to release that frog and go to the pet store to buy one of those swimming frogs. Well, it turns out there has been a salmonella outbreak in these frogs so they aren't available =(. The guy at the pet store talked Bryan into a fire belly toad and said that he only eats pellets and can live in this small cage. Later we find out that fire belly toads eats crickets, croak really loud at night and need a 10 gallon take. The croaking at night and crickets put me over the edge so we decided to bring the toad back and find another pet. After a lot of tears and tough decisions Dylan was ready to bring Hermie home.

Here is Hermie in his home. We hope to upgrade his tank soon, but look at Dylan's beautiful sand choice =)

Another view of Hermie's tanks. We are hoping for many years with Hermie around!

Dylan's Friend Poo Poo

Dylan has an imaginary puma/mountain lion named Poo Poo that he likes to talk about. One day Karen caught some of his Poo Poo stories on tape. Here's two video with a translation below to make sure you catch what he says. Needless to say, Poo Poo is one amazing mountain lion.

Video1:

"Well mom, you know what?"

"Jesus can't hold Poo Poo!"

"Because Poo Poo is so mean!!"

Video2:

"70....78, 9, 10, 11 36"

"Yeah, that really strong"

"She likes to...............eat lions!"

"....and she can't fit in God's hands"

"No she's....no she's an ambush predetor"

"Yeah, a mountain lion...so she's a mountain lion."