Beachhouse

Great weather last weekend for another trip to the beach. This time,Joe brought his friend from Scouts, Cody. Tom and Tammara were in town from Spokane with her niece from Nevada, Sierra. The 4 kids had a lot of fun together. My parents and grandma were also there. It was nice to here about my mom's Europe trip.
We didn't come out until late Friday after the Kiwanis Salmon bake at Steele Lake. The Scouts had to assist our Troop sponsor, the Kiwanis.
The boys started Scout Camp on Sunday but I won't be able to join them until Wednesday. I only have so much vacation.
I am still doing a lot of bike riding to work. 240 miles for the month of July.

Silverwood

Fun time this weekend at Silverwood theme park in Idaho. We met our friends the Traxels in Spokane and spent the whole day on Saturday at the water park and going on roller coasters. 6 boys with all of their names starting with "J" which made it a little confusing. Lots of fun and the boys want to make it an annual trip. I hope this works but I took of video of Joe, Jess, Jeremy and Max on the Corkscrew- the first modern roller coaster to go upside down.

New Bunny Record

I have been riding the interurban trail to work and I count rabbits in the morning. This week, the kids are away so I have been riding all the way into work instead of just from the park and ride. Tuesday I saw 47 rabbits and Wednesday 43. After work I have been riding to Seattle and eating happy hour food. Meg picks me up so I don't have to ride all the way home.

Jess is camping this week with Malik. Joe is going to an art camp in Tacoma and staying with Nana. We are going to Silverwood this weekend with the Traxels so we are leaving right after work on Friday and picking up the kids in Tacoma.

I didn't post but last weekend, we took 3 of Jess' band friends out to the beach and we had a great time playing in the water.

1 week until Boy Scout Summer camp and only 4 weeks before our trip to England.

4th of July at Beach house

Great Weekend of Fireworks at the beach house. Gerrit's family and Nana are still in Europe. Dennis was fishing in Canada, so we invited the Knutsons to come spend the weekend with us. Skyler Lamb also joined us. The weather wasn't that great but it was good enough for some boat play. Lots of great food and wine as usual. Jess spent the previous week at Boy Scout Leadership camp so we picked him up at Camp Delezenne on Saturday morning.

Blewett Pass

The boys went up to Blewett Pass with the Scouts for their annual Shooting Sports Weekend. I didn't go up until Saturday night after I took a day hike to Melakwa Lake on Saturday morning. I didn't actually make it to the lake because of too much snow but I saw some great waterfalls on the Denny Creek trail on the way up. I spent the night with the troop near Blewett Pass and in the morning I drove Jess to Camp Delezenne in Elma for a week of Scout Leadership camp. Joe went with Grammy Ann to Mukilteo for a week of full on Grammy Ann attention. Without any kids, Meg and I hope to get a lot of weeding and house clean up in as well as a lot of exercise. I plan to do a lot of bike riding although I broke a spoke this morning which will delay it a bit. Next weekend is 4th of July at the Beach House.... I think the Lambs are going although we still have room for others....

Lena Lake

Last weekend we were planning on going to the ocean for a Nyland backpack outing but we were a little afraid of the weather so we went to the other side of the Olympics so we could hide in the rain shadow. On Friday night we struggled to get through Tacoma traffic and stopped in Gig Harbor for some really good Indian Food at Gateway to India. We camped at the Hamma Hamma campground on Friday night. On Saturday we hiked up to Lower Lena lake and camped on the lake. It is about 3 miles and 1400 ft elevation game. Everyone did great. We never really got rained on but we didn't see much sunshine either.

45th Wedding Anniversary- Space Needle

My parents, Dennis and Linda Nyland, have been married 45 years so we celebrated at the Space Needle. We did the same thing for my grandparents, Lois and Fred Nyland, on their 40th wedding anniversary many years ago. It was a great time to get everyone together in a one of a kind location.