30 Seconds of Awesome-ness

She gets her sweet moves from me, of course.

Reception

We had such a blast at our Reception/BBQ. I couldn't believe how many people were down to celebrate with us! We had family travel here from as far away as Alaska and Mexico, friends came all the way from U.P., Snohomish and Seattle. Cam and I were so touched!
We had such a good time mixing and mingling (and drinking and eating) that we didn't get many pictures! So, dear readers, if you have some pictures, will you email them to me, pretty please!?
Our day started at 7:30 a.m. when the Jump Jump was delivered. While the day was such a blast, most memorable will be bouncing with Clementine in our PJ's having just rolled out of bed. We had the whole thing to ourselves, laughing and holding hands as we jumped to our hearts content.
Then this beauty was delivered (please ignore the garbage bag behind it, we try to keep it classy around here, you know) and it was all I could do not to dig in there right away. I love cake, and this was a GOOD one!
We kept with the color scheme throughout the house,
and guests signed our super cool family platter! I love this!
This was one of the few moments Clem came out of the Jump Jump for refreshments.
Of course, Meg and Patrick came to party. Meg was in charge of decor and bossing folks around.
Holla' Quigleys!
The twins charmed every single party guest.
Even Margot got in on the Jump Jump action (please someone tell me they got a picture of that!)
And when the day was done, the fellas partook of some cigar action.

Hopefully, more pictures to post later, I know there are a lot more out there!

Chalk Art

Each year since we moved back to Bellingham, we have gone to the annual Downtown Chalk Art Festival. It's a blast, and so many incredible artists participate. This year, our own little artist got to participate as well!
This year I took my summer school students downtown to participate in the show. We road the bus downtown (Clementine was more excited about riding the city bus than any other part of the day) and each student got to create within a 3x3 foot square of downtown sidewalk.
Make sure to take note of the picture above, Clem is indeed wearing SHORTS.
Here's the little artist at work. She told me she wanted to draw a frog and a Princess within her square, so I helped her get started.

Now look at her legs.
Cameron came to meet up with us downtown about 2 hours into the festivities. He was planning to take her home while I continued with the older kids there with me for Summer School. When he got there, he was confused, remembering that I had put Clem in SHORTS when we left, he wondered when she'd changed into pants.
No pants here, that's CHALK! Our girl was COVERED head to toe (new school shoes included) in chalk dust.
A wonderful day was had by all, and we were so proud of our little chalk artist.