Speed run to Whidbey Island

We made a speed run up to Whidbey Island on Saturday. Gail, Grandma Bev, and all but Cian and Jack, went to a 50th wedding anniversary for Denny and Marci Zylstra in Oak Harbor as well. While the others visited with relatives, Cian and Jack were busy making sea otter and bald eagle sightings. Here is an image of Rilla and Cian on the beach.

Eleven Stiches!

Two weeks ago and six days I was running and playing tag with my older brother Caleb. Suddenly, I felt a horrible pain so I looked down at my foot and saw a BIG cut. Caleb went to find Dad, and then Mom.They brought me inside and told me the painful truth. I had to get stitches. So they carried me to the car. We got to the walk-in-clinic 5 minutes before they closed. They gave me 11 stitches. Today, they pulled out 2 stitches.
-Colin

G2 Camp 2010

Every year our church hold camps for City Kids (1st-4th grade), G2 (5th and 6th) and GC (Junior High -College). I am going into 6th grade so I went to G2 camp for the second year. Colin's going into 5th so he went to G2 camp this year. Unfortunately Colin cut his foot and had to have stitches two days before camp. He still went but he couldn't get wet and had cruches. My team was the Orange team and after they had rounded up the final scores it turned out our team had won! I'll bet G2 camp is one of the only camps were you get to sleep in college dorms, have Cinnamon Rolls for breakfast, shoot at human paintball targets, and have an amazing encounter with God! - Emma

John Calambokidis on the Whale Trail

On June 17, vaguely around 6PM, Dad and I drove down into Seattle, to the Duwamish Longhouse. The Longhouse is the first built in Seattle since the last one burnt down, and is now also a cultural center. One of Dad's former co-workers was doing a presentation for the Whale Trail with John Calambokidis (who conducted the necropsy on the whale beached on Arroyo), and had asked dad to help her with the technical part of it. When we got there Dad and I started with setting up the projector, checking the sound equipment, microphone, and setting up the power cords.After we finished,and all the people came, we took some seats so we could sit near the sound equipment while we watched the presentation. Everything ran smoothly, except once when the computer displaying the logo started to go into screen saver mode (so we had to move the mouse occasionally).
-Caleb