Both Friday and Sunday we spent on the lake with friends. We don't do this often because usually we have our kids with us.  But our kids are gone for these two weeks and we are a little bit more free.  This year I purchased some adult water skis from Craig's List.  On Friday we put in the water around 10:30 and skied until 1:30 when Kara's husband got off work.l  We picked him up at the dock and skied until about 4:30. I am usually a little timid about skiing and going outside the wake but something snapped in me and I figured that I could do it.  Maybe it was the skis and maybe it was watching Kara.  She showed no fear.  It was encouraging.  John is just so athletic.  He gets up on the wake board and one ski and makes it look effortless.  That's not the case with me.  Both Friday and Sunday I was able to pop up out of the water and I tried to drop a ski and just use one on Friday.  On Sunday I ended up dropping a ski.  As long as I stay inside the wake and lean back I can go a long ways.  I tried both days to start with one ski in the water.  On Sunday I almost had it.  It was so nice around 6pm on Sunday.  Early morning and late evening is the perfect time to ski on the lake.  Both of our friends can ski and it was a blast to watch them.  I am hoping to be able to do more of this with friends next year. 
Vendredi et dimanche nous les depensons sur le lac avec notres amis.  Nous ne le faisons pas souvent parce que nous avons notres enfants.  Cette fois notres enfants ne sont pas ici.  J'achete des ski natique pour des adultes est c'etait temps de les essayer.  Nous arrivons vers 10 heures et demi au lac et faisons de ski avec la femme d'ami de John.  Vers une heures apres midi, l'homme arrive d'aller aussi.  La femme essayes les skis et je pense que si c'est facile pour elle je peur le faire aussi.  Je commence avec les deux skis et je laisse tombre un ski alors j'utilise seulment une.  Je n'etais pas capable de commencer seulement avec un ski mais j'etais presque d'arriver.  C'est mon objectif de faire du ski nautique avec seulment un ski.


That's me C'est moi

So I am going to try this challenge out.  It probably won't be in this order and I won't be starting on the first of the month.  I will try to post the photos I've taken once a week so there will be more than one photo. 

J'essaie faire cette liste.  C'est une liste des choses de photographie.  Je n'est pas commence au debut de mois et ce n'est pas en ordre.  Chaque semaine j'ecris un billet de blog avec les photos que j'ai pris a la liste. 
1.  auto portrait
2.  ce que je mangais

sea scallops with squash and gruyere cheese and pasta

3.  dans l'action

Gai Pad Krapow

on the lake with our friend Kara sur le lac avec notre amie Kara

The boys spent three days at Baker Lake doing all kinds of things.  They did a ton of water skiing, wake boarding and tube fighting.  They fished, ate and tried to scare each other in the dark.  It was a total guys time out.
Quand Lona et moi restons chez nous, les garcons font du camping.  Ils font le ski nautique, le peche, des randonne, et mangent des galette.  C'est le temp des garcons.

That is just what Lona and I did.  We played while the guys were adventuring.  Four years ago both boys were involved in chess club once a week and so Lona and I did a ton of stuff and then completed a scrapbook on the things we did together.  This year we decided to do it again but we had three days to complete everything instead of a day a week for 5 months the boys were campng.  Lona brought down her scrapbook and we looked at the list we made when she was 5.  It provided a foundation for us this year.  Our list this year included:  bake cookies, get a pedicure, watch movies, go to Busara's for Lunch, play at the park with friends, go shopping, bike to the library and Wood's coffee in Ferndale, and scrapbook our adventure.  It has been a total blast.  We watched Soul Surfer with one of my friends down the street and decided that it was a buy-worthy movie.  We went to Phase 2 to have a pedicure based on a recommendation from a friend.  I have never had one before and was surprised at how much I really liked it.  I can see doing this more often.  I generally don't like my feet touched but there were only a few times that I was sensitive about it.  We watched the new Star Trek movie again and part of one of the old TV series.  We baked pecan tassies, ( should have used mini muffin tins) and French Lace Cookies (they are more like candy than a cookie).  Stayed up way to late.  Ate at Taco Time with the Sutherlands after playing at the Lynden park for a couple of hours. 

Pour le deuxieme fois, les garcons de notre familee rendezvous avec des autre garcons pour quelques jour de jouer sur la lac.  Lona et moi restons chez nous alors nous faisons des choses juste pour les filles.  Nous avons recu des pedicures, pris notres velo a la bibliotheque, faisons des galettes et joue avec notres amies sur un parc.  Nous sommes allees au restaurant pour manger des pizzas, des cuisines thailiandaise et mexicaine.  Nous avons garder des films aussi.  J'aime passer des jours seulment avec Lona comme ca.  C'est juste des jours avec une maman et sa fille.

For the most part at Cannon Beach we just headed to the spot most everyone did; the beach.  It was wonderfully relaxation.  We purchased a skim board for the kids but in actuality it was Job that used it the most so it pretty much is his.  When back at the room he would watch Ytube videos on basic skim board techniques.  Then he would practice those techniques on the carpet with his board.  By the end of the week he could do three full turns on his board. He couldn't go in or out of the waves but I think his record length was 65 ft.  John paced it out.  Lona pretty much dug in the sand and made sandcastles.  Isaac wandered between activities.  He and Lona played a catch the flip flop game.  They tied one of Lona's flip flops to the end of the kite tail.  The kite flyer would try to zoom the kite near the other person who was trying to catch the flip flop.  Once caught then they would switch places.  John and I pretty much read books, watched the kids, and just enjoyed the time. 
Every since the first time we came to Cannon Beach, I have run either in the morning or in the evening on the beach.  It has kind of become a tradition for me.  This year I would get up early and walk two miles either with or without my camera.  Then in the evening I would run those two miles.  I would be stiff and sore but it felt good to have some alone time in this way.  I talked to another gal and she said that she runs a lot at home but somehow feels closer to God on the beach.  I feel like that too.  I think it is because I'm being fed spiritually the whole week, like drinking out of a fire hydrant so that I can clearly see Him around me. 
Pendant presque tous les jours en vacance nous allons a la plage.  Nous achetons un skim board pour Job et il le utilise beaucoup.  Il le voir les instruction d'utilise le skim board par internet et practique dans la chambre.  Il devien bien avec le skim board.  Lona fait les chateaux du sable.  Et Isaac a joue avec ses amis, a utilise le skim board parfois, a vole un cerf-volent.  Il a attache un chausseur de Lona a la queue du cerf-volent.  Si Lona peut l'attraper elle peut utilise le cerf-volent et il faut que Isaac attrape la chausseur.  John et moi, jouons avec les enfants, prennons des photos, et lisons des histoires.  C'est tres relaxant.  Chaque fois nous l'allez chez Cannon Beach je passe de temps tout seul a la plage.  Cette fois, je me reveille de bonne heure pour faire un tour a la plage, quelquefois avec ma camera et puis debut de soiree j'ai couru a la plage.  C'est un tradition pour moi.