Girls Weekend and Harvest Days in Battle Ground

 Chris, the older girls, and Myles went up to visit Ben and Stacey for the weekend. We were all going to go, but things got busier than we had anticipated. The Suburban wasn't quite put back together in time. They've had a great time. Ben and Chris went to a bug show yesterday, Myles has been enjoying virtual reality, and Rhaevyn found two books at the used bookstore.
The little girls and I have been hanging out and having some fun of our own. On Thursday we watched a cool documentary on the WASPS, the women aviators of WWII. Elsa was thoroughly captivated by the documentary and thinks being a pilot would be a lot of fun. She really likes the planes that they got to fly. She and Meg spent some time coloring pictures of WWII planes.

On Friday night we went to a local burger place and watched all the old cars cruise up and down Main Street for our annual Harvest Days. We have never taken the opportunity to do this before, but it was a lot of fun. After we finished eating we stood on the sidewalk for a bit and I got to point out cars to the girls:
Mommy had  car just like that in high school; that's Oma's favorite car; Grandpa Lindsay had  car like that; Opa has a truck like that one.
Elsa was wide eyed. A lady we know from church was camped out in front of us and said her son was in the cruise with his 64 1/2 mustang. She asked what one make of car was that passed us. All the years of being tested on year/make/model of old cars payed off, and I was able to to tell her :)

Saturday morning Elsa, Meg, and I walked in the Harvest Days Parade supporting a friend who is running for office as one of our district representatives. It was so much fun! We've never been to the parade in all the 20 years we've been here. We had such a good time. It was so fun to see all the people that we know as we walked the parade route: friends, church members, and past neighbors. We handed out Otterpops to the adults and candy to the kids, held our signs, and waved. It was truly a great experience.
Here we are getting ready to walk to our meeting spot.

 

 We picked up our shirts and signs, and then I loaded up Meg in our red wagon.

 

 

 There were a total of 75 people that came out to support Shane Bowman (pictured here in neon yellow).

 This is one of my former Sunday School students, and the son of our friend who is running for office. He was sweet to give the girls and I a ride back to our car in a golf cart.

 Random pictures from this past week:
Meg building with paper towels. Ta-da!

 Myles putting together his birthday present from the Mitchell family.

 And roses from Chris before he headed up to Seattle. It's always nice to have surprises like that :)

 We've been having fun reading together this summer. I think right now I have six books going at once. I'm reading three, but finishing one of them today, two that I am reading with Elsa, and one with Myles. Plus I've got two waiting in the wings, one of which is Wind in the Willows that I found at Goodwill for $2. I am super excited to start reading that with the kids. I will be ever so happy to finally finish up Tom Sawyer with Myles. Elsa is reading different Frog and Toad books to me, and then I'm reading her a book from 1927 called Children of the Alps. I've had it for years and have never read it, but she found it and wanted to see what it was about. We are really liking the story line. Even Myles listens in on our reading of that one. Aeva is reading Alice and Wonderland again. Her friend from EFY, who is now living in Germany, sent her the book since he knows how much she likes it. So thoughtful :) Rhaevyn is reading the Screwtape Letters again, which I found for her at Goodwill for 99 cents. It is fun to see the girls already wanting to build their own library :)
And we are off to the start of another week..................