This is in no particular order, so we'll start with our trip to the beach. We were supposed to meet the youth in our ward who were going to be at the beach all day, but due to bad weather and a wedding that night that the Bishop had to officiate, they left just as we got there. So instead of having all these young women to help me with the boys, it was just our family. A note here, the REAL beach is a two and a half hour drive from Seattle, so we weren't just going to turn around and go home. Instead we drove our car out onto the beach (like everyone else), except that we got STUCK! Fortunately, the nice people there helped us get unstuck. Then Ruston went off with Brooke and Josh to fly a kite and I stayed back to put the boys to sleep and then scour the beach for leftover firewood that we could reuse to cook our hot dogs. I did eventually get enough for a fire, but just as I was getting it started it started to drizzle the typical Pacific Northwest drizzle. Nothing to drench you right off, but after 45min. in it you are surprisingly soaked! At this point the boys woke up, so I took them to the car to feed them and Ruston started cooking the hot dogs with the kids. The hot dogs turned out great, except that I unknowingly bought the hot and spicy ones. So the kids took one bite, and were desperate for water! This is where I threw in the towel. Now we are all soaked, covered in sand and hungry, so we cleaned up as best we could, went to McDonalds, and went home! We'll try the beach again another time.
This is my birthday, my last good birthday as I am now officially 29!, and will be for the rest of my life. What made this day interesting was that Ruston tried so hard to do a lot of cool things that flopped. For one, he tried to come home early, and would have until he took the wrong bus after getting off the train and headed to Tacoma instead of home. He did get me sushi, but due to the bus thing by the time he got back into Bonney Lake, it had been sitting for over an hour. And lastly, we ran out of cake mixes at the last minute, so although he wanted to make a cake, when there aren't any mixes around, you're late getting home from work and you have four kids four and under, there's really only so much you can do about it. All in all though, it was a fun day and I appreciated all the effort Ruston put into it.
This pic is from the ZOO. Yes, with the help of my mother and neighbor, I took the family to the zoo. Brooke loved the petting zoo, Josh on other hand thought the animals were going to eat him, and would NOT feed them!
Lastly, for this post, Ruston took the kids salmon fishing. As part of my birthday present, since I don't really have time to go fishing right now, he is going to catch me a salmon. Josh had a ton of fun casting out and reeling in, as did Brooke. However, all they managed to catch was Ruston in the rear end! Fortunately, it didn't take long to untangle that and no one got hurt. I'll have to admit that I think it is so fabulous that we can drive ten minutes from our house and go salmon fishing, it has to be one of the greatest things about living in Seattle.
