What a Summer

So the summer started off with the craziness of both Savannah and Ian's birthdays. Savi had a sleep over and for Ian we just had a few friends over. Can't believe my oldest is already seven and my youngest is two now!

Most of our Saturdays this summer were taken up with working on the Hope Garden. I think I may have mentioned the garden in an earlier blog, but here's a recap of what it is. In January our church started a food pantry to provide food to the local community in need. Around February it was brought to our attention that most of the people receiving food had no access to fresh healthy vegetables. Our church sits on 8 acres of land and a large part of it was grass. We can up with a plan to plant a garden on the unused land and provide produce to the food pantry. It took us until March to get it planned out and brought to reality, but starting mid to end of June we were able to start harvesting and we have pulled hundreds of pounds of food out each week and sent them home with needy families. The greatest part is it is a project that our kids can be a part of too! You can look at some pictures of the garden by cutting and pasting this site to your browser http://picasaweb.google.com/hopegardenvol

On the 4th of July Savannah's Girl Scout troop marched in the local parade and threw candy to the crowd. It was a HOT day and the troop did an awesome job walking over two miles in the parade! Afterwards we headed of to our good friends' house (Trainer's) and had a BBQ and then walked over to the nearby park for the fireworks. Tons of fun!

Over the weeks of Summer we made several trips to Long Beach (always a fun time). Savi had Girl Scout camp and because I was a counselor at it Daniel gat to be part of a small group of boys called the "Tag-alongs." They both had a blast doing out door stuff all week. We also took several trips to the zoo, the Children's Museum, the parks, the "free movies" at the theaters, the Cupcake story time at Bliss, and the All comers track meet in Hillsboro (Daniel and I were sick that day so only Todd and Savi and Ian went to that one).

In August I joined Todd on a business trip to Washington DC. Although it was short I had a really great time. I was there for two full days. One day I went and walked around all the monuments. It was really neat but my feet were so tired! The second day I just relaxed. I was nice to have a bit of time for myself, and the kids got to enjoy some time with their grandparents.

At the end of the month we managed to get in a quick trip to Yakima to visit my family. We were only there for 24 hrs but had a great time staying with Uncle Scot and Angie and seeing my Grandpa and Grandma Levno (my dad's side) and having lunch with my Grandpa Bob (my mom's dad). We even enjoyed some fresh huckleberries on the way home. All in all a great trip.

Now school is underway and life is trying to settle into some sort of a schedule. Savannah is loving second grade and daniel is ecstatic about going to kindergarten. You can check out the pictures of our summer at http://picasaweb.google.com/teverett. Hope your summer was as great as ours!