July was a super crazy month for us! To kick off the month, we headed over to Idaho to visit the Ednie family. We try to head out that way once a year if we can. Edward has been reading a book (“Emmet’s Pig”) that Grammy had brought out once and she use to read it to Darrell when he was growing up. Because of that, Edward was super excited he got to see some pigs up close and even got to give them some weeds to nibble on! Darrell’s uncle Adam was even nice enough to let him wander out and visit with the cows. We went into town and watched the 4th of July parade and overall had a great visit. We stopped at the Wild Horse wind farm and the Columbia Gorge on our way back.
We decided to go ahead and hosted another student from Spain again. We hosted another girl, Sonia, from Valencia. It was a lot of fun and we did a bunch of traveling and seeing different things while she was here. Edward had a blast hanging out with her and was a bit sad that she left at the end of the month. We hit up Kerry Park overlooking Seattle, The Fremont Troll, Mukilteo Beach, and Dash Point State Park during the week between dropping her off and picking her up at the bus.
The first weekend she was here, we headed up to Mt. Vernon to go to the Skagit Valley Highland Games and since we were so close, we went ahead and headed over to spend some time at Deception Pass before it got to dark.
The next weekend, we headed out and did some blueberry picking. It was our first time doing this and it was a lot of fun. Hopefully we will continue doing it for as long as we live here.
Sunday after blueberry picking, we headed out again to meet with some friends and did the Wallace Falls Hike. It was a beautiful hike, but really hard on a 27 week pregnant lady. But I am happy to report that it might have taken almost 5 hours, but I made it to the lower falls and then back to the car!! Not sure when or if we will do that one again, but nice to say we did it at least once!
The following weekend, we headed down to Oregon and went to my family’s annual gathering at Pheasant Rock. Sonia wasn’t super sure as the drive to get there is longer than if you were to drive all the way across Spain. Then we forgot to make sure she knew how to use an airpad, so poor thing slept on the ground. But we made it through the weekend! We got to help paint the dining hall. Sonia got to do a lot of firsts: Camping, Road Trip, sitting in a Semi-truck, and sleeping in a car.
The last weekend in July my family made a trip up to Seattle and we had a full house. There were 9 people in our house for the whole weekend. It was insane but so much fun! We headed down to Enumclaw and the Highland Games there. Maybe we will get a chance to have a full house again sometime!
