We go to Forks and beyond

Yesterday we went to the other side of the world. ok we just went to forks for a day camp check up. I took the Fam and we made a day of it. First we stopped at sully burgers and robyn tried the "twilight"inspired Bella Burger. WE watched teen people come in and ask for directions to certian "twilight" places, and even saw one ask for an autograph from the burger joint.

After that we walked around town and then decided to head to lapush and the beach there. (we didn't know that day camp started at four and we got there around noon) the kids played on the beach for a while then we headed back and cruised around a bit more.

at the beach la push

water pit panning for gold at day camp

burnt down house forks, wa

part of bowling alley forks, wa

lavender

As most of the 5 people who read this blog would know. This last weekend was lavender fest and i worked at a farm to raise money for the boy scouts. Alot of the lavender had not quite bloomed yet but we did have enough ready to get us by. I took these shots in case i need them in the future for this event. The one in the middle is a black and white "toned" as if by a selinium toner. I put toned in quotations because is was a tecnique i am trying out in photoshop to reproduce toning effects. let me know what you think.

self imposed pictures

Ok so when ever i go our photgraphing someplace interesting or i get the idea to. I try to take some self portraits. this is for two reasons. 1. i am alone and nobody else can take the shot. 2. normally i am behind the camera and there is not much in the way of me shots (so i make my own)

Here is a sampling of my shots.

Moms house

These are pictures from my parents house. I didn't really have a chance last weekend to go explore yakima like i usually do. So i just walked around my parents house and let the photographs find me. This is a bit different than normal where i have a list in my head of areas/buildings I want to check out and photograph. The question is (if you go to my parents house) where are these items at?

july 4th thru the 7th

Ok so on the fourth we had our friends Steve and Robyn come over for a BBq then we went out and blew up some fireworks. The kids had a blast playing and the sparklers as well as the pop-its. I think we got home around 12:30 and then it was up and out the door to drive to Birch Bay by Blaine washington for w weekend with Casey and melissa. they have a timeshare thingie. We played in the pool and went to this gocart track. Irish was able to ride shotgun but cole being only 2 did not meet the 3 year requirment. It broke his poor little car loving heart. Then we ate steak. on sunday we hopped into the car and traveled to the State of Canada. There i was able to pick up some wunderbars and ketchup flavored potatoe chips. (if you go to canada get me some) more pool time when we got back. on monday we left the florens to their own devices hung out at the beach and went into bellingham saw WALL-E and drove to mt vernon to have dinner with some old college friends amy and joel. We got to talking and realized that it was 9:30 pm and we still had a three hour drive ahead of us. we got home about midnight.

We were all very tired by the end of the trip.

camp fife trip

On wednesday i went to camp fife to go see my dad who was up there for the week with some scouts. i also went to just be at camp and see how it was doing. most of the usual was happeing the cook had already quit and other personall issues were happining. i was going to buy a patch but they didnt have them yet. i wasa going to get a shirt but they didn't have them yet. i was going to buy any camp schwag they had but they didnt have any yet. so i bought a pepsi. now i am off to blaine washington to hanf out with casey and melissa and maybe get to canada for some ketchup flavored chips and wunderbars.

Sunset

Ok so today was is or could be called warm...for port angeles i hear the high was somewhere between 78-81 degrees. what a dramatic change from a week or so ago when we were happy about it getting to 50 degrees. anywho i was putting the dog outside and i looked over and it was a great looking sunset. so i shot it. with my camera. thus the picture.

Quotes from this morning

these are things that i heard around the house this morning.

Robyn "Cole no throwing pooh at mommie"

i was happy to find out it was a stuffed pooh bear.

Cole "i urt my boob"

we didn't know he knew the word boob.

Things Ben Found

a subsidiary blog on the crap that i find and buy.

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oh so many events

June is normally a busy month for me at work and this year has been no exception. Luckily one way or another the end of the month is here and the summer calm period begins. I have gone to meetings, courts of honor, recognition dinners, mariner games, auctions, pack meeting, family visits, ect.
I have also traveled once again to the magical land of Forks, Washington. The people there are friendly and the local drive in is pretty good to eat at. I had a spartan burger. try it you'll like it.
My sister and her family came up to seattle and we all went to a mariners game. The mariners won almost.

Seattle, wa from the 10:40 ferry

our view at safecothe fam at the game
Sulleys drive in forks, Washington

Cleaning the Closet

SO after a long while of robyn telling me to clean out my side of the closet and it being so crammed full we went thru it today and i tried on all of my shirts to see if they fit/shrank/too dingy to wear/never worn. All in all i ended up cutting about 45 shirts from the herd leaving me with only 68 shirts in the closet (and one i just bought) plus sweaters. oh there is also a bin of shirts downstairs that i couldn't part with.

Closet after the cleansing
pile of clothes that didn't make the cut

cole

We were outside and cole and irish had a disagreement about something (like riding a bike or car) well cole lost and started crying. So i took a picture of it.

shop around the clock

This is a convient store just down the road from our house. it closed one day and never opened. Play lotto here and other cigarettes i thought made an interesting sentence. the door has a sign on it that states something came up and the store had to close early.

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drive in

A little bit ago i traveled to the shelton area and completely forget to post these pictures of the skyline drive in.

Sunshine and the trampoline

After spendin much of last week on the couch or in bed or with my head in a trashcan i got better and that was good timing because we had some great weather here inport angeles for a few days. On saturday i decided that i had been inside for too long and needed some outside time so i grabbed my camera and headed off to photograph and see if i could find some yard sales. i did and i did. first i hit this huge park with basebal fields and trails and such (see photos below) i like the one that is a pole with a warning that "beyond this point " it was dangerous to be due to the strength of the trasmitter right next to a little league dugout. Then i found me some yard sales and one of them had a sign "free trampoline u-haul" long sotry short we did. Apparently it was used one summer than givin to some friends who never set it up and four years later just wanted it out of their garage. So we have a new 14 foot trampoline. How mormon are we!

Sick Kids

yesterday cole slept in until 10 30 am and when we checked on him his room stank apparently he had trown up in the night and didn't wake up enough to tell us. So we bathed him and gave him breakfast and 20 minutes later the trew up again. so we just gave him water and some saltine crackers. Irish and rob went to the park and i had cole take a nap on me. Guess what he fell asleep then about 30 minutes later woke up looked at me and puked all over the couch. Last night he woke up again about 12 because he had throw up so we had him in our bed trying to get him to sleep (next to a trash can) again his stomach didn't like him. Rob spent all night up with him in the living room onour rocker chair because sitting up seemed to work better.

Irish woke up this morning walked into our room looked at me and said she wasn't feeling good them proceded to mimic her borther in the amount of Liquids coming out of her mouth. luckily she knows the drill and ran for the bathroom. Now they are both on couch with their own respective trash cans.

more pictures

Ok the first two are from Wapato and the third picture is the sign for skateland fun center in Union Gap. I took over 100 pictures last weekend and am still working thru them. For the first time in six months i was accually warm on sunday. notice the blue sky and the sunshine.