Mom and I went to Seattle on Wednesday night and stayed until Saturday. Primary reason for the visit was to attend the Pacific NorthWest Dental Conference held there every year. We missed last year's. In addition to walking down to Pike's Place Market for some oysters and chips (not mom) she had some fish, we saw Harry Potter's new movie, spent until 2am picking up mom's copy of the book across from our hotel in a Barnes and Noble and generally had a wonderful time. On Saturday we attended the Pachfic Northwest NHRA National Drag races in Kent, Wa. I have never been to a race where the BIG TIME drivers attend and raced. This was a nationally televised event on ESPN so we have it on our DVR at home too. Some of the photos from the event are included here. For the Seattle part, I didn't have my camera with me. So, an eventful weekend and back to church today. Have a good week. Oh, the other news is that we've dropped the Tahiti trip idea and returned to our more favorable trip to Elko for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering...a much more entertaining event with Dick and Martha. Dad.

Well, we are done with summer semester! So Treven has a break until January and I have a break until September. It will be so nice not to have school for a while. I started at Melaleuca again last week. It is good. Just back to the same old thing. Treven's work is going well and of course busy. One of the guys he works with is moving at the end of August. He was accepted into Chiropractic college in Iowa. He wasn't going to leave until the end of September, but they decided to go out earlier soooo good thing Treven has no school because work is going to be busy without the other guy and Treven's boss doesn't think he will hire somebody else until Winter or even next summer!! We will see.
It was fun having Mom and Dad here even though it was such a short stay and we did a lot of homework while they were here. Yellowstone was a interesting adventure. It was awesome though to see Old Faithful. Treven and I will have to go up there another time so we can spend more time.
The only thing that has been frustrating is we had 2 offers on the car that fell through and our desktop won't turn on so right now the "experts" are trying to get the memory off of it. It has all of Melia's pictures since she was born on it and a lot of assignments that we would like to have. We are crossing our fingers. They said they found them yesterday so hopefully they got it all!
Can't wait to see you all in a couple of weeks. Treven will be coming from the 3rd to the 6th which is great!
Melia is all over the place with crawling and pulling herself up on things. No teeth yet, but we can see the bottom ones underneath her gums. And she is slowly growing more hair. Still looks bald but there is some there. Kind of reminds me of Danica.
Well I hope you are all doing well. That is really all from here.

Kimberly

Just a small sampling of some of our summer activities so far. We had a really hot week a while ago and the kids and I were desperate to get out of the house - we went to Klineline Pond in Salmon Creek one day - but after watching Morgan crown her castle with a cigarette butt and having Isaac develop a strange rash on his torso just a couple days later, we started looking for a new haunt. We found Blue Lake - on the Oregon side of the river, but only 30 minutes away and gorgeous: spring-fed lake, beach, water park, huge trees and picnic areas. Next week is looking warm again - I'm sure we'll head back.

Kids are great. Isaac is hoping to buy an electric guitar soon - he's been saving. He turns 12 this August and is going to Scout Camp with Dave. Crazy. Taylor is at Day Camp this week and loves it. I am spending two days up there - and after spending the day with 8 other boys, I am gaining a sincere appreciation for my own children. The highlight of Parker's week is moving up to the top bunk for a while. And the buzz word in Morgan's world is "Snoopy" - her beloved, dilapidated Snoopy doll that is MIA. She forgets about it, then remembers and becomes quite distressed, convinced that Snoopy is lost somewhere and is crying for her.

Dave works hard - at work and at home - and is getting ready to take his staff to an important conference in Vegas next month. He's also getting ready for Scout Camp and working on various merit badges with this scouts. He is my rock as far as running goes - last weekend he ran early in the morning (while I slept) and then agreed to run again later in the day with me another 6 miles so we could try out a new trail. Stud.
We are camping with Brian & Paige next weekend - then with the Stinchfield clan the following weekend. Paige is blazing on the running, by the way - she is going to smoke us all in Leavenworth. The following weekend, I will tag along with Dave and his team to Vegas - and the kids will hang out with K&B.

Love all the news and pictures - can't wait to see some of you in a couple of weeks.
Adina