Olympic Fever!!!

Just have to say I'm obsessed with the Olympics! I've been looking forward to them since January when I walked into Costco and all the fancy TVs were showing great moments in olympic history and I heard it...the olympic song! Ever since then I've been counting down to
8-8-08! My kids are obsessed too. Tessa started crying tonight because she didn't want to go to bed before we turned it on. Don't worry I caved and she and I watch the recap from yesterday. Are any of you as into this as we are? Weren't the opening ceremonies cool? Did you see the mens 4x100 freestyle relay? (If not watch it www.nbcolympics.com) Go USA!

July & Beyond

4th of July

The 4th of July is tied with Thanksgiving for my absolute favorite holiday. Every year I'm determined to pack in as many holiday festivities as I possibly can. This year we went to a breakfast at our church (complete with bike parade), went to a parade, had a BBQ with some friends, and watched fireworks.

One of the coolest things about eastern WA is that fireworks are legal (even the big, huge ones!) so instead of loading up to go to a fireworks show you sit in your front yard and watch the neighborhood put on a show for about 5 hours. It's seriously the coolest thing EVER!Look at them, so excited to be a part of the bike parade!
Bike parade drop-outs. Taken approximately 4.5 minutes after the previous picture.

Swimming Lessons

Summer games 2020 here she comes!

Rig's Blessing
Rigdon Cole Jones

Blessed July 20, 2008

What an awesome day! The blessing was beautiful and we had so much fun spending time with family and friends.

Finally complete!

Well kinda :)

About mid-July marked the end of our 5-week siding/painting project-and by "our" I mean Mark. He tore down and replaced the siding on 2 sides, trimmed out all the windows, preped, painted and added some new fixtures. We decided a while back that he should take on this project right after Rig was born in order to take full advantage of his "my wife just had a baby sick time"-needless to say I was excited for him to finish so that we could have a husband/dad again.

Trip to Canada
While my parents where here we took a quick trip up to Vancouver and Victoria B.C. They are both beautiful cities and we crammed as much sight-seeing as we could.

The Butchart Gardens were beautiful-thanks mom and dad for a great trip.
SeaFair
SeaFair is a big festival in Seattle, the hydroplane races and the airshow are the 2 biggest attractions. This year we went down to a park with our friends the Owens to watch the Blue Angels-they're amazing! Whenever I see something like this I always want to get decked out in American attire and watch Top Gun or something-what can I say it's cool to be an American!

(Apparently this is the only show "the blues" put on over water. If you blow-up the picture above you can see all the boats out to see the show.)
Isn't summer great?!