I could have sworn I blogged sometime during July!!!!  We have had some busy times.  There were 12 here for the 4th.  Steilacoom does a full Fourth starting at 7 in the morning and ending with fireworks at 10:30 in the evening.  Brian and the boys arrived on 7/2, Brian drove back to Mt. Home to go back to work on Tuesday, and we got to keep the boys for a few days.
 
It was all just fun.  We visited the Seattle Aquarium, the Boeing Flight Museum, and the Tacoma Zoo.  Along with Aunt Colleen we spent one afternoon digging in the sand and building sand castles at Sunnyside Beach in Steilacoom.  All meals were tailor-made for the boys to include cold cereal, grilled cheese sandwiches, macaroni and cheese and pizza.  Not a green thing in sight, just an occasional apple or carrot for vitamins!!  We loved having them and they were just about perfect the whole time.
 
The tree house was well-used.  They slept in it every night except the evening they watched the History Channel with a program about UFO's.  Nolan was in the motor home with us and Warren was in bed with Aunt Colleen.  We took the boys to the Tri-cities in the motor home where Brian met us on Saturday.  Then it was off to Mt. Home on Sunday for the 3 of them.
 
Now we are anticipating the visit of Jeff and Bev Schuler.  Bev says Jeff will be emailing me to tell me when they arrive next week........but so far no email.  I suspect they are at the San Jose Giants game tonight so we should hear from them later on this evening.
 
Tomorrow is my last day of work.  The office has a new person hired so my services are no longer needed.  Yeh!!
 
Colleen flew to San Francisco for the week end where she will meet up with Bassim.  He is on his way back to Australia to take on his new assignment:  the Iraqi desk for the Australian state department.  He would like to see Yosemite, but I wonder if the fires are going to preclude that?
 
Keep cool!