Happy Tired Sleepy

What a awesome day!
It wasn't NEARLY as hot as it was yesterday, which was nice. This morning, it was a little grey even. (It sure got warmer, though!)

Sarah and I worked on writing our Salt essay. Summer homework. :P We had to read a 450-ish paged book and then write a journal with important quotes from it and then now we are working on an essay. I've finished my intro paragraph and now I'm 2/3rds done with my first body paragraph.

Unfortunately, so true.

Later this afternoon, we went to our piano teacher's house and said goodbye to her and gave her a gift, since we aren't taking lessons anymore. Eight years of piano! We'll still keep playing though. We are, however, giving Celeste lessons! She already knows some but we'll teach her some theory and make sure she gets little star stickers every time she practices. ;) Hee hee.

At 5:30, we went to Sehome and ran hills. It was actually a little harder than a week before. But we did lifting afterwords, and that was easier than last week. :) Yay! The ab workout, in particular, was easier than last week.

When we came home, we were driving on Lakeway back home and I picked up a little bubble container that we keep in the car. We were at a stop light next to another car, and I was blowing, and once they saw the bubbles, they were smiling and nodding their heads at us. :) And then as we drove past, a pedestrian looked and saw I was the bubble-blower and smiled. :) I love making people happy! And bubbles are great for that, because who in the world can't smile at bubbles?

 So, I'm tired, but happy, and a little sleepy. Kind of a good combo, if you ask me. :)
Mama made some cobbler, and it is YUMMY! Raspberries and peaches and blueberries and vanilla ice cream on the side! So good!

So long!
-hANDs

Sierra! & a trip to the Lake.

Our good friend Sierra, who moved to Texas last year, came back in town today! There was a surprise birthday party organized at Lake Whatcom at the Sudden Valley Marina. She was stuck in traffic while we waited for her, for about an hour. We played Ninja and 10 Fingers, which is a game where you say all the things you haven't done. If you've done it, then you loose a finger, and you try to get others out and be the last one with fingers.

When she was coming, we hid behind a shrubby area and then ran out and hugged her. There were like, 8 other girls there. Once she came and we ate our burgers, we got our bathing suits on and played in the water! We found a nice sandy part away from the rocks and hidden sort of from the other area. There was a drop off too, so the sand near there was really sink-y and anyone who got caught in there sort of screamed, and everyone knew why. :)

We tried playing Marco Polo, but Sierra was cheating and opened her eyes. When she yelled Marco, she was really close to Hannah, and Hannah whipped her head around and Sierra looked up and her nose hit Hannah's forehead! Sierra got a bloody nose! It wasn't too bad, but she said it hurt and both she and Hannah got headaches. :|

After swimming we got out and opened her presents/mostly cards. And then we ate some really good carrot cake!

It was so fun to see Sierra today! She's a good friend and very sweet.
Plus, she likes Gone with the Wind, too!

-hANDs

Gyoza lunch time!

I made Sarah and Celeste some yummy gyoza for lunch today! I made it in the microwave instead of on the stove and it was pretty good!

Yesterday we went to Sehome and went on a run and then lifted weights.... oh, and also, yesterday morning we were going to have a drive with an instructor, but they, for some reason, didn't have it on their schedule! :P But we scheduled another one and it's on a Saturday afternoon.

Well, it's not quite as sunny as I wanted it to be today, but it's not raining yet!
Have a happy day!




PS-- Post #100!!

Happy happy summer days! ☼

Alright! It's been a good couple of days!

Yesterday we went to Lydia's house for a run! It was about 45 minutes.... 2 and 1/2 or 3 miles! It was sort of hot out, but it was bearable. After we ran and we waiting for our mom to pick us up we jumped on Lydia's trampoline for a few minutes. :) That was fun, too!

Life continued as usual, and then at 5:30 we went to Sehome to go on a hill workout. It's a fairly hard workout, but yesterday it felt really good. After we ran there was weightlifting which our mom strongly encouraged us to attend... they've had them about twice a week but we haven't gone to any yet. We were pretty unwilling at first, but once we got there, it was fine and sort of fun! There's another one on Wednesday that I think we are going to.

Today we had driver's ed and well... that was pretty much that. After we got home, we (upon Celeste's previous request) went berry picking at Barbie's Berries out in Ferndale! But wait! There's more!!

Sar and I drove there!! :O

Yes, chalenging tasks were involved.... a roundabout, large trucks, and of course,
the freeway. :O

It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be... I was on there longer that Sarah was (we took different routes and mine was a little longer.)... like... 6 miles or so. :O But the worst part wasn't merging, like I thought it would be for me, it was changing lanes to get out of the way of entering vehicles and then getting in behind them so we could get to our exit. But, we were both successful! :) The entire driving took like.... 45 minutes I think!

Well, we all wanted to go for the raspberries, but when we got there, Sarah decided to get a pail to pick some blueberries, too. :)

Here's a picture of the lunch Sar and I made... It's a baguette with arugula and cucumbers and bacon and Balsamic vinegar! so yummy! We made it all up!!

Yay for berry picking!!

:) I like this one

Celeste's berries

Uh oh! Sarah's blueberries spilled!!! :'(

Heart-shaped one!

Filled up the car!

Afterwards, I just chilled out on the deck with Raney. :)

There's not a better phone call to get on a bright sunny day!

We started today by going to church... I (Hannah) was the PowerPoint person... a few mistakes, but it all was pretty smooth. :) After church we went to Harris Avenue Cafe! I got a plate of French toast and fresh fruit with potatoes on the side!!! It was quite the large lunch.

Papa left and went to get Mama from SEATAC, but before he left....

After being home for... say, 1 hour or 30 minutes,  we got a phone call from none other than Anna herself!! We went over to her grandma and grandpa's house and we gave her a set of letters and read them together. After a while, we started picking huckleberries, just munching away at first, but then decided how awesome it would be to bake some huckleberry muffins!! We headed back inside and got everything ready.
The muffins were really yummy! They tasted wonderful! We had a sort of dinner-ish meal before Anna and her mom and sister went back home that was quite delish! :)

We finished up with the muffins and then read some Calvin and Hobbes together... a classic. :)
It was good to see Anna again... and we'll see her in August, because we are going to Vashon Island with her!! :D Yay!

-hANDs

Drivin, Drivin!

Well, today we drove for one hour on Hannegan! It felt pretty fast but...well, manageable. Got up to 50/55ish mph!! That's close to the freeway!!!
We have a drive with our driver's ed peoples coming up on Wednesday. Luckily, this one will be easy, just on normal roads, I'm pretty sure, and we went down to Sudden Valley and Agate Bay yesterday, which was narrow and winding. WE'RE PROS! Just kidding. ;) But on drive #3  with them we go on the freeway... and we've already signed up for two!
Ah, well, we'll just take it as it comes... I guess.
-hANDs
PS- Oh! And we got Brave Temple Run! It's fun! :)

Target and Costo, Babysitting, Pirates, Avenue Bread, Lake Samish, Fairhaven, and Whatcom Falls

Yesterday we went to Target and Costo and at Target, Sarah got these SUPER cute stickers and I got 4 of those scratch off rainbow things! I love those!! :) A few days ago we also watched Beauty and the Beast... ♥♥♥♥♥!!! YAYAYA!!! I love itttttt!!!!!
        
Last night we babysat, and it was pretty fun! It can be hard to get kids to go to sleep, but it all worked out in the end. :) When we came home, we decided that we wanted to watch a movie! We decided to pick Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End (#3) because we just realized that we hadn't seen it before! :O Sarah and I thought that we had, but we looked at the cover and it was unrecognizable. So, we watched in in my room. Sarah brought her sleeping bag over and it was quite fun. (Though, we did fall asleep in the middle of it. Perhaps more of it tonight? ;) )

Last night (well I suppose it was this morning), Mama left at 4:00am to go to Atlanta! She'll be there for about a week.

In the morning, Celeste woke us up because her friend Emma, had come down and why not do something fun? So we left for Avenue Bread. :) I got an almond croissant. It was goood! But very sweet.

After that, we went to Lake Samish. It was sort of cloudy out, but we all wore shorts anyway in hopes that our summery attire might change the weather. (And it did!) It was a little too cold to swim, but we dipped our feet in. Actually, it was pretty funny because Celeste, Sarah, and I were far down on a rock with our feet in and then a big wave came and almost got us all wet with all our clothes on. We were thinking about paddle boats, but the office opened at 12 and it was only 10. But another day, perhaps. :D

 

 After that we went to Fairhaven and looked in Village Books and then the Paper Dreams. I really like that store! They had this one hanging chair and it was SO comfortable!! I want to fall asleep in it now!! ;) We also went to "Drizzle" which was an olive oil and vinegar tasting shop. It might sound sort of weird but it was really fun! They had lots of weird flavors for OO&V, like orange and chocolate... :P gross. But a lot of them were good, like a rosemary olive oil! Afterwards we went to Fairhaven Toy Garden, and mostly played with their puppets. :) It was a fun day!

We came back home and then Emma left, and Celeste left for a haircut!! Sarah and I decided to go for a run, and it was super hot and hard, but we had a Popsicle and it was yummy. :) and then we had some chocolate milk! And now we are having Arthur mac and cheese and listening to Disney songs!!