AMO and REO

Monday, July 4, 2016

The girls accompanied Mommy to Becca's wedding in Snoqualmie, WA. We stayed at Dara's in Seattle.

Anchorage Airport

Short-lived ponytail at the gate

Getting into Ohana's bling at Dara's.

Dara's chickens, with Ima

Dara's drums, post bath. Hopefully not a preview of college.

Becca's bachelorette party. Ava presented her with a flower "sword." Ava is eating a cookie that is shaped like what she called a "dog bone." We didn't correct her.

Ava hung out in the garden for most of the party of her own volition.

Rosemary and Ava both got swag, including a new hat from Grace

And sunglasses

Seattle zoo, with Ima.

This is the African Savanna exhibit, with giraffes, gazelles, zebras, some kind of monkey and some other ungulates out of frame. In the foreground is a pond, with 3 mallards in it. Guess which things our girls, daughters of a waterfowl biologist, spent most of their time looking at?

Rosemary is defending this play structure from other children. Ava is a lemur sunning itself with its arms out.

Pig sty, stinky.

Rosemary engaged with the petting zoo.

Rehearsal picnic, Snoqualmie. Cool suspension bridge over the Snoqualmie River.

We hadn't seen Grace since we moved from Maryland! The girls were so very excited to see her.

Wedding, farm fabulous.

Picking blueberries

Chickens

Slug

Back home, new bunkbed = new fun that was promptly banned and new terrors for the parents. Also new dress up outfit. We asked Rosemary if she was excited about her new big girl bed (lower bunk). She said "No. Top," while pointing up to Ava's upper bunk.

Backpacking trip, Carter Lake near Moose Pass, Kenai Peninsula, July 1st-2nd.

They normally have a pretty late bed time, but when it's light out nearly all night while camping, that makes it even more challenging. This was a failed attempt at getting them to sleep at 9:15. It was really buggy--they're looking at bugs.