Snoqualmie Railroad Days

Last weekend was the annual Snoqualmie Railroad Days. We usually try and catch the parade on Saturday morning and then spend the day visiting the booths, playing at the Kids Area, watching a concert, getting wagon rides and buying cotton candy. Here we are with neighbors at the parade.

It wouldn't be a Snoqualmie parade without a logging truck or two!


A great day, nice weather and just fun to see our friends .

Our crookneck squash is finally producing vegetables. I love having a garden. I hope that if we do decide to move, we will have a nice, sunny spot to grow lots of food. Looks like our garden this year won't produce any ripe tomatoes. We just didn't have a long enough growing season. But really grateful for our radishes, carrots, cucumbers and squash.

Connecticut, here we come!

We've actually been home a few weeks now, but Millie and I spent a week visiting my dad and Melissa in Connecticut. It was sooooo great to be back "home," visit with friends from high school and have Millie play with grandpa and nana. I didn't realize, but I really missed the place! Here is Millie and nana at Beardsley Zoo.

Later in the week, we got to visit a farm and Millie got to ride a horse, go for a wagon ride and just run around the farm with her new friends. She kept telling me she was now a "farmer girl." I am so glad my dad arranged this with his friend from work. What a great morning. Take a look a that huge horseshoe pile! The owner of the farm is in the business of horse shoeing horses...hope I said that right...

Checking out the horses.

"Farmer girl"


Millie and Grandpa !

Hiking in the park near home.


Playing at the Creative Playground in Brookfield with my high school friend and her children!

Downtown Brookfield (where I grew up.)

Elephant Trunk Bazaar, by far the best flea market I have ever seen. This has been going on every Sunday in New Milford since I can remember. I hardly ever went growing up, but now it was a real treat to visit. (next time I staying for longer and going in with a wad of cash...)

Having fun at Lake Quassy!




We'll be back soon!

July

It is almost the end of August already and I am getting behind in my blogging. But I did want to include some of my favorite happenings and photos from July. The photo above shows Mike and Millie on a hike the day of July 4th. Another cool, cloudy day, but 2 days later, we finally got our summer weather!

Giggling around with my favorite girl.

Stopping off on the way home to pick up some fireworks being sold under the tent.

Hiking in the Cascades...well, as much "hiking" as you can do with a 4 year old!


Lots of lots of bike riding with no training wheels.

Ballerina camp!

Summertime

Now this is what summer is all about...eating dinner outside (on the picnic table Mike made!) and later on...

playing an evening game of frisbee in the backyard.

Here is the latest layout I made for our photo album last week.

Making layouts

Now that Mike is home, I have had more time to get creative and make some 12 x 12 layouts. I decided to add them to my blog after my mom suggested that I take pictures of what I make. These are some that I made awhile ago, but I happened to have in my iphoto album.

The family having fun and getting silly in Germany...

Millie dressed as a ladybug for Halloween this past year...

...and this one has photos from before I even had Millie. (I was 7 months pregnant with Millie.) I found the photos in a plastic baby album for Millie to play with when she was a toddler. After taking the photos out, I was going to throw them away since they were so wrinkled, but they flattened out okay and I made a quick 8 1/2 x 11 layout.

Time to Ride

On the way to another milestone in life, fingers crossed...

Yeah!!! Good job Millie on your first bike ride!

Happy 4th Birthday, Millie!

Thursday Millie celebrated her 4th birthday. Millie and I went strawberry picking in the morning, we actually picked 7.5 lbs! Later in the day, Millie first picked out a birthday balloon from the store and then we opened presents. Thank you to everyone for some great presents. Barbies, books, dress-up, games, a zhu zhu hamster and tea set.

Fun books to read for later on!

....lots and lots of beautiful dress up clothes sent by Nana.

Millie is here modeling the princess ballerina dress...

followed by this beautiful red dress!

And of course, this year Millie requested the "Princess Party." We had her party on Saturday when Mike was home for the weekend and Millie invited 4 friends from pre-school over. We had tiaras for everyone to decorate.

Hard at work adding gemstones and other colorful touches to their crowns.

Afterwards we played some games outdoors. The sun was shining that day, a special gift for Millie's birthday! (That was 8 days ago and the last of the sun for the week....)

Millie playing Pin the Kiss on the frog....

Ta da! The princess cake. I am so glad we had gone strawberry picking. Those berries were the perfect touch to the dress and hide all the imperfections perfectly....

Putting the candles on the cake.

Blowing them out and making a wish!

And here she is, our beautiful 4 year old princess birthday girl!