July 18, 2009

Came out to Sequim to see my family and the Lavendar Festival--huge herb party. Crazy hippie and old people who come to sing songs about purple flowers or something. Quite a sight to behold.

Little Audra with Lemon Lavendar ice cream. Her hair never looks better than this, by the way. I don't know what it is.


Nice looking kid. :)


It really is beautiful when it's all in bloom. However, this is where...


...this happened. That is the stinger of a bee that got me on my foot. I haven't been stung since I was a little kid. I don't know if I'm semi-allergic or what, but it hurt like no one's business! Not at the time, so much, but as the day went on. It was excrutiating! I could barely walk. And, the worse part was I had to "hide" it from Maggie because she already has an irrational fear of bees (thanks to her dad), and seeing my pain certainly wouldn't help on that front!


My sissy!

The cousins.

Took the kids to Harry Potter (second time for me). Liked it about the same. Enjoyed it, yes, but definitely have some complaints about what they changed and left out and what they chose to focus on. But, it's all good fun!

Heading off to the other fam next, for Anna Marie's baby blessing. Looking forward to it!

July 12, 2009

Finally cropped some fotos from our California trip. So, I took our friends Carla and Kyndall (who Maggie is attached to at the hip most days) with us. Carla used to live down there (San Jose area), so she got to visit old friends and family. She was kind enough to watch Maggie (and Kyndall) while I was working most of the days. The girls had a ball. I think it's a memory we'll have for years to come.

I love this picture of Kyndall.

This is a good one of Maggie. I love the colors.

I love railroad tracks.

The girls spent about 4 hours in the pool every day.

I didn't get any pictures of us at Great American, but we had a blast. I even got Maggie to ride a real roller coaster with me. She was reluctant at first, but then she wanted to get right back on afterwards. I went alone on a couple other, bigger ones, and truly thought I was going to die on one. It was so dang freaky! The day was perfect. Weather was nice, no crowds, we hardly ever had to wait in line, great company. It couldn't have been any better. Highlight of the trip.

This is the mentor group I was with during the week at Michelle Garcia Winner's clinic. She's there hiding in the back. It was an amazing week. I learned so much. I also got to "hobnob" with her and her staff at her house when she held a speaker's conference that weekend. That was pretty fun. Now, I gotta get this book done so she keeps thinking "good" thoughts about me! My goal is by the end of summer, so I gotta keep working. Meanwhile, my business is busting at the seams. Which is good... and bad. I just wish I had more time to do all I want to do.

Ah, the complications of life!