Fay Bainbridge camping trip

We went camping out at Fay Bainbridge the last weekend of July. We stayed out there 3 nights with mom and dad and their camper. Jon and Crystal stayed out there for 2 nights with us too. We had great weather but it was a little cold in our campsites once the sun went behind the trees in the afternoon. Jamie and I had a few tetherball tournaments (but I'm a former grade-school champion so he didn't have a chance)! Actually, I think he won a few times because he had a knack for making the ball go all bouncy and crazy. On Friday night we had a birthday dinner and dessert for Chad and Pat&Kristy and their girls joined us for the evening. It was a nice and relaxing weekend!

Can we go yet?

Tristan was so set on flying his new "flo" kite.

You can kinda see Mt. Rainier in the background.

And of course we played Scrabble.

And baseball!

We wanted to play a big game but the park was totally full Fri and Sat night with tents even in the grass!

playground fun!

Sidewalk chalk

This is how Jon plays tetherball :)

Crystal was good! Was she a grade-school champion too?

July misc.

Belfair

We spent an evening at Belfair visiting with Chris and Myra who were camping there for the weekend (and also Pat &Kristy who were there for the evening as well) .  Jamie and Abby spent the day out there with friends and we came out with Tristan when Chad got off work.  We brought some dinner and s'more makings and the kids had fun playing in the creek, riding bikes, and Tristan was super proud of himself for climbing the big rock at the playground.

Just like dad!

 

Umm...My face is up there Chad!

Swimming

We spent plenty of time at the lake swimming and sunbathing. This was just one afternoon that I spent there with some friends.

Tristan goes everywhere now on his own, well as long as there's a lifejacket involved!

Blake Island

One weekend we anchored out off of Blake Island.  We took the dinghy to the beach with hopes of laying in the sun watching the kids play in the water.  Unfortunately the beach was full of sand fleas and ants so it didn't go as planned.  We still had some fun and got a bit of sailing in too.

Track camp

Jamie went to track camp again this year with his best friend Otto.  They had a lot of fun and I came to watch a few of his events at the track meet on Friday.

I think was a bit cold?

Jamie actually had a pulled muscle in his leg so he's not running as he normally does.

Day out with Thomas means day out with Dad

Day out with Thomas has officially moved from dad&daughter day to father&son day.  This year Chad took just Tristan to Day out with Thomas (Chad and Abby chose something else, more on that later). Tristan adores Thomas so he was so excited and still talks about it.  To make it even better they also got to take a ferry and a bus (Tristan is big into any type of mass transportation!).

Waving perhaps?

I love how he is eying Sir Topham Hatt out of the corner of his eye.