17 July 2011

These first 2 photos are from last week while we were on the trek. A friend who brought a camera took the photos and emailed them to us. The first one shows us above the Williamson River, home to world class fly-fishing. You can see the beautiful scenery we hiked through.

Here's a photo of our family flag at the end of the trek. Our flagpole had broken a few times so one of the kids duct taped the flag to the back of our handcart. The splashes of mud only made the flag more awesome. We gave the flag away at the end of the trek, so we are especially happy for this photo.

Sophie is in another musical this summer and Becky is back on the costume crew. Can you guess the musical? The cast has some dancing Egyptians and a pharoah who sings like Elvis. Becky made 16 golden collars for the dancers this week. We're certain the ancient Egyptians made their jewelry with poster board and hot glue.

We picked peas for family night and the kids spent most of the next afternoon shelling them.

 

Becky came home one afternoon to find the kids dressed in an assortment of costumes with crazy face paint. She missed their barefoot parade through the neighborhood. Good thing they got their parade done while she was gone since it's the sort of idea she would squash pretty quickly.

 

Saturday morning we listened to Helen's violin teacher play with a chamber group and then got the wiggles out at a nearby park. We fit into the red-tail hawk play structure with (a little) room to spare.

 

Here's Gibson with some baby bears.   ~   Sophie's musical? Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Sophie is playing one of Jacob's wives, one of Potiphar's slaves and a hairy Ishmaelite.