SHE'S IN THE WATER (Brother and Sister King & Little Brother & Sister {adam & karissa} King - I hope you see this post - CUZ HE FINALLY GOT A BOAT INTO THE WATER!!!! Hooray!
Sailboats look SO MUCH COOLER on water than they do, well, say, on a rusty trailer next to the shop behind your humble abode. :)
FUNNY STORY OF THE DAY:
Camden was helping to dock and tie up the boat today so Scott could get off of the boat and Becky, Alaina and I could get on...
Well, if you are a 13-year-old boy, and there are beautiful young ladies around, YOU MUST SHOW OFF. So he did. He did a super cool jump from boat to dock - landed beautifully and he was very charming. For about 30 seconds. Okay, maybe a whole minute, cuz' that's how long my back was turned and the next thing I know, boat is drifting off and I see Cam sort of drift right off the dock with it...into the water. He TOTALLY tried to pull the boat, with sails up, in toward the dock - while sort of lying on the dock...and it sort of just took him with it. Now, all of you nicey nice people who are going to be shocked and horrified at this point, please don't keep reading down to the part where we were all laughing our fool heads off because then you will think we're mean.
So, here's the kid, hanging from the boat, which slopes, well, in a manner making it difficult to pull him in. The water's COLD and we're all laughing and trying to figure out what fool thing he's tried to do to get himself into this predicament. Scott really was trying to grab and pull him in, but boat is still kinda' spinning around because IT WAS HIS JOB TO BAG THE HEAD SAIL that he left half up when he jumped to the dock to show off (yes, it was classy, cool, and in all other ways cool boy maneuver)...so boat starts coming back toward the dock and I feared my handsome young man would be smashed - and he nearly was, because he couldn't decide if he wanted to continue hanging off of the boat that still wasn't secured to the dock OR if he wanted to hang off of the dock - so for a few seconds he was between the two telling me "MOM, Pull me up!" And I COULDN'T because he had an arm on the boat and one on the dock and, well, we were still laughing.
This whole episode *might* have lasted 3 minutes. Yes he was cold and wet when we retrieved him, however, he wasn't going to die. No hypothermia drama or anything like that. Fortunately NO CELL PHONE IN POCKET either (phew, i asked as he was gaining his composure hanging from the side of the boat as he was drifting away).
And THAT was when he'd decided he'd sailed enough for today and left his deck hand position in favor of riding with Scott to Coos Bay where we were going to end and moore the boat - but didn't have a vehicle down there yet. So he and Scott took my car and met us on the boardwalk with Kord and Becca - and none of us girls (me, Becky, Alaina & Abby) went overboard. Abby did get all wet though, and such is sailing.
Steve's finger. I bought a Fujifilm Z33 waterproof camera and the only NICE thing I have to say about it as that it's macro function is awesome and you can use a flash with it - my Canon A470, cool macro but no flash option there. Anyhow, I took this photo of Steve's finger in macro mode with flash - before taking the camera back the next day.
SHE'S IN THE WATER (Brother and Sister King & Little Brother & Sister {adam & karissa} King - I hope you see this post - CUZ HE FINALLY GOT A BOAT INTO THE WATER!!!! Hooray!
YOUTH RALLY tonight.
*sheepish grin* I have gotten behind...again. Even with a new modem, eh, it's summer. :)
This is what happens when you forget to add colored ingredients to the dough until it's done mixing and you have to remix it a bit...
A TREAT!!
As we transitioned from the 16th to the 17th...we celebrated...WE STILL HAVE FIREWORKS - how did that happen?
Okay, so I am behind again, the modem a la ramen noodles...yeah, it hasn't been replaced yet. I actually went to our local Wal-Mart to get one and the place is an utter remodel disaster so I decided, yeah, whatever. It's quiet at the house without internet right now...and moved on.
Found out after dropping Cam off that there was a mini swim meet today. :)
Doe. Saw her on my way home, she was walking beside my car :)
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I know, Drew is a little blurry, and I am sorry :( But I was THRILLED to see his Aunt Sherilyn and Uncle Rick with cousins Brandon & Nicole this morning :D
Playing catch up -still no modem at home :D
I did not take this photo - but I thought it was funny - this is the after youth pizza at Gino's photo. Bill took the photo with his less than stellar (but so cool I'm jealous of) camera phone. It's shock proof, water resistant and expensive - the casio phone I wanted...but am not willing to pay for.
I finally made one of my blossoming tea balls...wish I could remember which one it was...lotus something - but it tastes like jasmine lotus :D
Yeah. It's Haagen Daas (minus the dots over the As because I'm not interested in figuring out how to put them there right now), on the way home from a most...undelightful night at Gino's - but they're single serve containers, and not all for me, so it's allllllll good :)
Meet Steve. Remember my traveling buddy, Becky? This is her younger brother. I like this picture of Steve. Steve and Chris humored me for portraits today - now to sort and post process and delete. Diffused sunlight makes you blink a lot or if you don't blink your eyes water...:D
Uncle Sam (Kord), Thing 1 (Kayla?), Thing 2 (Becca?), Cat in the Hat (Cam), Binky the Clown (Zippy) and Ruby...she's just Rubz. Gearing up for the downtown fireworks in front of Oregon Inspiration. We saw MUCH brightly colored fog a little later - but it was fun :D
Youth outing! The casino has their fireworks show on July 3rd, which happened to be Friday, which happened to be a GREAT excuse to have a pizza/ice cream party and outing to watch fireworks together - after lessons on The Declaration of Independence, and what it means to be free, and what are WE willing to give to be free? What are we willing to give to the Lord? Awesome evening!!
Sigh. This cute little bug WOULD NOT POSE FOR ME. The thing wouldn't hold still and it's super hard to take macro shots with our little canon a470 in low light to begin with but when it's a moving target it's grrr - but isn't he kinda cute??
We bought LIQUID ARTILLERY slurpees on the way home from church...and shared at home. Note the blue lips...strawberry, pineapple, lime - is for whatever reason BLUE. And yummy.
For those of you who cannot quickly identify this structure, it's a cat cage. Abby worked all evening on it while I was at work. Bet you can't guess what she wants so she'll have something to put in it...
