Whidbey Island Fun

 A few days ago, Jason, Kayle, Sue and I got invited to Whidbey Island for the day by our friends.  We got up and headed to the ferry!  Once there, we had a wonderful day just hanging out and relaxing after what has been a very long few weeks after Jason's accident.

Kayle had so much fun playing on the beach and climbing the big tree with her friends.

Our friends took some lovely family photos for us.

4th of July fun and Jason's accident

On July 4th, Kayle and I got to have lots of fun celebrating at the big festival in Snoqualmie Ridge...

... she got to play on the fun bouncy castles...

 ... and eat lots of yummy treats

After we left the festival, we picked up Jason who was working, and then headed up to our friends house for more fun.  There were lots of us all ready for the fun.  We set up all our fireworks... BBQ'd the meat and got ready to celebrate.

The boys were enjoying the evening...

... and so were the kids!  We got a ready to let off some  fireworks.  We had all the kids set up in chars a good distance from the fireworks.

The little kids got to enjoy some sparklers.

We let off some hot air balloons.

Everything was going well until Jason had a terrible accident.  He was lighting a firework and before he had a chance to move his head, it went off in his eye.  We rushed him to the hospital.  He was then transferred to the West Coast Trauma Center in Seattle.  Once we were there, we had to wait while they looked at his eye.

We were at the hospital all night.  Jason got to sleep on and off.  I sat up all night people watching!  There were so many people in the hospital with terrible injuries.

So many of our friends were so supportive... we got some amazing flowers!

Selling Fireworks

How fun is this... I got to sell fireworks for 4th July...

In England we don't have fireworks stands like we do here in America, so selling fireworks was so fun for me and certainly something I have never done before!

Little Ballerina

Kayle has been taking dance lesson every week and is getting better and better!  It has been a dream of mine to see her dance.  I danced as a child and really wanted her to dance too... thanks to some amazing friends who sponsored her, she got to dance!  After months of practice, she had her first recital on June 9th! She had her dress rehearsal the weekend before and all went well!

All her dance class waiting for rehearsal.

Getting ready for rehearsal!

Kayle did a wonderful job during her show even though she had a raging fever and terrible cold and cough.  We weren't sure that she would even make it because she was asleep all morning before she was due to dance.  My old boss came to watch too and bought her some beautiful pink roses.

When we got home from the recital, Kayle crashed and slept for hours and then woke up, ate dinner and fell straight back to sleep!  Poor baby!

Birthday Band

I got to go to the hospital a few days before my birthday... 

When I got there, they made me feel so special... they gave me a cute sticker for my patient wrist band!

it's surprising how much a silly sticker makes you day!

Roller Skating Fun

Oh boy... where do I begin...

So... I have a 'List'.  It's a list of fun things that I want to do... and on that 'list' was Roller Skating!  I absolutely loved roller skating down the street as a little girl but have never actually been to a Roller Rink, so on Saturday 26th June, me and my 'girls' hit the local rink for some 80's retro madness!

We all got out our best 80's neon gear, glow sticks, and shutter shades and hit Skate King in Bellevue!  We all rode there together in Sarah's mini bus/ van and had the best laugh!  I made an 80's/ 90's playlist that included the classics... Ace of Base, A-Ha, Bon Jovi, Colour Me Badd... yes, even New Kids on the Block and we sang and danced the whole way there!

I wore my favorite clothes EVER... my New KIds t-shirt and hat from when I was 10 years old! (Thanks Mum for bringing it over with you when you came!)

We ate some yummy dinner before we went in so that we had as much energy as possible to skate like crazy, but then we headed in, got our boots and hit the rink!

 I haven't had that much fun in a very long time and I was so grateful to all my friends for coming and making it so fun! (The husbands/ dad's wanted to come too, but we had to tell them no this time... but I am sure we will do another one very soon!)

Some of the ladies were amazing skaters... 

We had a really fun time and I can't wait for the next thing on the list!

Thanks for making it so fun ladies!!!

Celebrating the Queens Jubilee

Kayle was celebrating the Queen's Jubilee yesterday!  

She loved dressing up in all her best 'English' stuff! 

Or should I say... I loved dressing her up in all her English stuff!