July

Here it is the middle of September and I'm just getting July done!! I'll be brief....

We were cleaning the house and made a pile of recycle out the back door (we don't have a ton of shopping options out here so we buy almost everything online). Looked out the back door and Hendrix was just chilling in a box.

Our door knob broke and Papa took care of it while Dylan and I were at work. At first Hendrix was a little nervous that Papa was breaking the house, but it wasn't long before he was telling Papa what to do.

Everyone (but me) in this family is super musical!

Hendrix wanted to play in the pool but it was kind of cold. Dylan popped out the kitchen screen and filled the pool with hot water from the kitchen :)

I was folding laundry and heard Hendrix breathing kind of weird. I looked over to see him on the work out bench pretending to bench press and breathing like Dylan does when he is lifting weights (very controlled but kind of explosive exhale). He wanted weights but everything was too heavy, so I got him some cans of tuna and he went to work ;)

So happy to have a chilly day that required a jacket in the morning!

Cousins!

Dylan hurt his knee and was icing it. Hendrix loves Dyl so much and wants to be just like him.

Watching the neighbors use a big tractor to unload huge bales of hay!

Stella really wanted to swim with Hendo

Hendrix peeked in to see if Dad was awake and when he saw that he was still sleeping, went to his room, and grabbed one of his favorite toys to tuck in with Dylan.

Falls asleep with a book almost every night

We went berry picking at Grandma and Grandpa Aldrich's home. Hendrix ate every single berry he could find. Then helped himself to my bucket. Dumping them in his mouth was much faster.

Grandpa Aldrich is a master gardener

Hendrix makes Eloise laugh so hard. They sure love each other!

We could not get Hendrix to put closes on. We just let him run around nudie for a while.

I spilled baby food all over myself so got up to clean up really quick. Hendrix stepped right in and helped feel Lou!

Hendrix playing baseball with Nana and Otis

Moved our shop (Elkhorn Embroidery) to a new location!

Having dinner at our friend's house. They have a daughter, Hemi, that is 6 months older than Hendrix and he thinks she is the greatest. The recently moved away and we miss them terribly!!

4th of July

We got back into town just in time to run over to Tom and Glenda's for dinner! We loved getting to see both families in one day :) Papa had the hammock up and the kids LOVED playing in it, although Hendrix did flip out of the hammock like five times so we had to keep him out. Sometimes he is just TOO crazy.

Washington Trip!

I was really missing my family and we knew it would be a while before the entire family would be able to go up to Washington, so we took advantage of the 3 day weekend (4 for us, since our shop is closed on Fridays!) and headed up to Washington. The drive was actually kind of miserable, and we will probably never travel over 4th of July again! But is was really fun to see my family!

Hendrix loves reading books in the car. He was reading a book to Lou to help keep her entertained.

Hendrix puked EVERYWHERE and I got covered in puke. The easiest shirt to reach was Dylan's church shirt, so I sported the button down and puke hair for the rest of the drive.

My Dad got a new drone with a camera. I could see what the drone saw from my phone and snap photos and videos. We sure had a blast with that! I said "the drone is looking at us! Quick everyone jump and I'll take a picture!" My mom is the only one that indulged me.

Of course we took the opportunity to go crabbing! We sure love our fresh crab :)

It was chilly enough one day to wear jackets. We were pretty excited about that. Dylan embroidered a camo hoodie for Hendrix and he LOVES it.

We went down to the beach to help clean out the crab and do some clam digging. Louie was indifferent, but Hendrix loved playing in the sand!

Another picture from the drone!

We are pretty serious about our crabby love.

"Dada. What dis?"

"Where go?"

Uncle will was coloring with Hendrix during church. Hendrix would point to a spot on the page and say "bubble" so Will would draw a bubble. Occasionally Hendrix would give Will a new color. He gave will gray that wasn't really showing up on the paper and kept pointing and saying "bubble" but Will's bubbles weren't really showing up. Hendrix got a little frustrated and took the crayon from Will and said "No. BUBBLE." and tried to draw one. It was hilarious. 

Hendrix loves "mowe"s

Natalie bought two chicks right before she moved to Hawaii (they are spotted like Dalmatians). They've grown so much!

Dug up lots of clams! We will us most as crab bait, but we decided to try to cook some up. None of us had done this before, and we watched a ton of youtube videos but still weren't quite sure.....

put them on the grill to pop open! *we attempted to clean them and eat them, but we were pretty unsure still about what part we eat, and there was some pretty weird looking stuff in there. After trying to eat a couple different parts,we gave up and just added them to the crab bait!*

so much fun with the cousins!

William, Keith, Courtney, Connor, and Connor's girlfriend (now fiance!) Anna left way earlier than we did! They had some issues with their car, and since it was the 4th of July it was hard to find someone to help them out! We weren't keeping track of each other at all, and just happened to stop at the same time, at the same gas station, in Ellensburg! (also, it wasn't the gas station we typically stop at, it really was so funny!)