Beach Fun August 2009

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We took a little day trip to the Washington Coast before the kids went back to school it was about 2 hours from where we live. We had a lot of fun. We took our kites and wagon and buckets and flew the kites and built a sandcastle. Daddy even lost one of the kites to the wind because he let Blaize hold a kite for a minute and turned away helping Sienna and then Blaize let go and the wind took it away. Daddy tried to run after it but it went to fast and the went into the water and just kept going and going further and further out. It was quite the adventure for us all. Lots of fun!

Zoo Geocache Contest

In August I took the kids to the zoo and during one of their shows they talked about family outing that you could do to learn and see more around us in our very own area. They put together a geocache contest which is like treasure hunt and you get to see all kinds of fun new places. They gave us a map of the three locations and clues as to how to find them. We love to geocache as a family and decided to take the challenge.

Sienna really enjoying her ride on daddy's back.

Blaize enjoying the trees and warm weather.

Blaize trailing along

Sariyah opening the treasure box of the last find. In it there was a pin to ware that says I love nature and a slip of paper with a password to enter your names into the contest. You had to have the secert word to enter which would prove that you actually found the cache.

The kids having fun. It wasn't that dark outside yet it was just a bad picture.

This was the first treasure box we found. Can you see it in the tree's (it's a green rubbermaid box)?

Sariyah logging our names that we were found that perticular box. You write your names on each log book when you find a cache not just for the zoo but anytime you geocache.

Savannah is wearing one of the three pins we got when we found the treasure boxes.

The grand prize for doing the geocaching contest was a years membership to the zoo. With each cache you found you could enter everyones name that participated once, so for us we got to enter 6 peoples names each cache. We weren't in it to win just wanted to do it for fun and spend time as a family seeing new places. We had a great time doing it too. (Fast forward to November 2009 )-Just recently I got an email stating that Sienna's name was drawn as the contest winner for the free membership. I was so surprised and so excited because we could not afford another membership this year and was a little sad that we would have to wait probably until next year to go to the zoo again and here we won a free membership. We are very excited and can't wait to go to the zoo again.

Yeah!!!

Lots of fun!

Summer Zoo Trip 2009

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I took the kids to the zoo one day to get out of the house. We had alot of fun!