Tall Enough

Mackensy got her haircut. The ponytail measured 26 inches long. She said, "I didn't know my hair was this long! I think the bob cut she has now looks really cute on her.

Mackensey celebrated her 10 year old birthday! We took her on a date night to Mondo's, a new Italian restaurant in town. Maddy made her a rainbow cake. She baked 7 cakes of each color of the rainbow, then stacked them with frosting in between. She used the bright food coloring. WOW!

I took the kids to Colville to buy shoes/clothes for back to school shopping. We wanted to go swimming in the colville kiddy pool, a free pool that is about 12 inches deep. They were having problems with the pump and we were told it would be ready in 45 minutes. While we waited we played at the park (next to the pool) and I took pictures. Unfortunately they never did get the pump running, so we went home without swimming. On the way home we passed the Chewelah park and noticed that the sprinklers were on. We hopped out and the kids got all wet in the sprinklers. 

Mindy looks so grown up in this picture. Marianne looks like the monkey that she is!!

I drove a van of girls out to girls camp this year. I thought it would be a good opportunity to take a picture of Maddy at girls camp. As you can see she did not cooperate, so I had to get one while she was helping unpack. She had a wonderful camp experience:-).

We took the kids to Silverwood, using their free tickets they earned through a reading program through the school. We went on Toyota Tuesday, so the driver of our toyota sienna got a free ticket. We also took advantage of a deal where we bought $50 worth of supplies at our auto supply store and got a free ticket (we did that twice and got two tickets). So we didn't have to pay for any ticket this year! 

Is Ben behind the wheel?!?

The big kids enjoyed the kiddy rides as much as the younger ones:-)

Barry and Marianne (with Mackensey and Mindy behind) go around and around on the train ride. 

The height milestones at this amusement park are: 36 inches, 42 inches, 48 inches and 54 inches. Benjamin was past the 42 inch mark and was finally able to go on the rides outside of the kiddy part. Barry took Marianne on kiddy rides while I took Ben and the older girls on his first big roller coaster ride. He had watched this ride on a youtube video and thought he was prepared. As I sat next to him on a ride going 50 mph he said, "This is not what I expeeeeeeeected!" He was a brave boy, but didn't ask to go again. I was glad, it is a very jerky ride. Our silverwood trip was something our kids have been looking forward to. Our next thing they are looking forward to: ward campout in the middle of august.