Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Goodbye Hogwarts...

Oh, how I will miss you! Sadly finished the last Harry Potter Book "Deathly Hallows" I have loved this series as an adult reader and can't wait until my boys are old enough to read it with them. I read them so voraciously (like most everyone else) that Josh used to say "Are you going to bed with Harry again?". Now I am scouring the Internet for any kind of Harry Potter fix. I wasn't the kind of crazed fan at the midnight launch parties. I listened to the occasional podcast, glanced at the websites, but now that I know it's over, I can't get enough.

Ringold and more...

This weekend was crazy. Josh and I had a date on Friday night. Took the boat out and met up with a few of his friends from work. I haven't been out on the river at night in so long. There was a price to pay however. I got eaten alive by mosquitoes!! Probably 12-15 bite overall. This...on the eve of my lecture on West Nile Virus, me on the boat at night with no bug spray!


On Saturday morning , we took the boat up the Columbia to Ringold. There are a lot of sandy beaches there. We took Uncle Booba and the Stevenson's with us and met up with the Jenne's and Ellis's from Apollo. Boone and Claire had a blast in the sand but he didn't want to try to keep up with her on the inner tube. Here they are climbing the dunes. They would run down holding hands and they both ended up with a mouthful of sand several times. Here is Brody chillin' with his sunglasses. He kept them on most of the day.












Saturday evening I went scrapbooking and Josh took the boys to a casual reception for Stephen's sister Kimberlee. She married a great guy named Chip on the 7th of July. Sunday we a had a great visit with Miller's. The kids played really well together . Here are Anna and Boone very intent on Beauty and the Beast (for about 2 minutes).

We finished the weekend at Hubby's for Boone's buddy Ian's birthday party. Poor Ian hurt his elbow on the slide and didn't really get to enjoy his party.

Josh couldn't figure out why he was so tired even though nothing got done this weekend. Time to check to google family calendar to find out!!