Birthdays and Lummi

July is a busy birthday month and since Ainsley is close, we throw her birthday in there too.  We have traditionally celebrated Khalif and Ainsley's birthday at Lummi and this year was no different.  Lots of fun and good food!

 Angel food cake was Khalif's request and Grandma Pam had a pie ready to go, so Ainsley was all over that!

 Liha suggested we tie-dye while we were there and I've always wanted to do it, so we went for it.  It was pretty easy looking back, but when doing it for the first time, it doesn't seem that it will work at all and it was pretty messy, but overall a great time.

 Working hard

 Beautiful.  We did learn that rinsing the next day was not necessary and actually bled the dye, so we stopped after a couple and the others seemed to turn out better just letting them sit for several days and then putting them in the washer.

The kids have such great memories exploring the beach and looking for sea glass, jellyfish, starfish, crabs, cool rocks on the rock beach and whatever else they can find.  And they love the ice cream from the little store before getting on the ferry.  Ainsley asked me as we were going over if orca's were ever seen and sure enough a couple weeks after we went, they were right by the Lummi Ferry!

Here they are looking for treasures.

 He is starting to get old enough where he can really help out.

We decided to do cousin pictures in their tie-dye

And Harry Potter...It has been very popular with our kids in the recent months.  Good looking bunch of wizards :).  Stella and Ruby are very much into Harry Potter, so the kids had a lot to talk about and they learned of a new website to find out what house they were in.  We had representation from every house.  I was pleased with my placement into Gryffindor, haha!