The rest of the trip...

Okay, it has been so long that I don't even remember, but I must finish this, so I can get on with the rest of my life...

We did an Olympic Peninsula tour one day, taking in the beach, the rain forest and of course for all you Twilight fans... we went to Forks. My camera died at the beach and I haven't got them from my sis yet, but here are some shots from the other two locations...
The rain forest was really dark, the pictures didn't turn out great, but here's one most of the cousins in a really big tree. This was definitely a high light of the trip!

And on to Forks. Read the books, they're okay, had to go to make friends jealous...




And now on to one of the best parts of the whole trip... The Relay for Life
We had so much fun and were able to raise over $3000 as a team. Thank you to so many of you who donated to our cause. We were truly overwhelmed by the generosity of our friends!
Here's a picture of my favorite cancer survivors: Dad, Mom and Brad

The theme for the Relay for Life was Back to the Future/ 80's. We had fun entering in some of the contests. Audrey and I entered the "80's Icon look a like contest". She was a rubix cube, of course, and I was Madonna in "Papa Don't Preach". We had to go around getting donations. We had to take a break from soliciting to have Audrey's hair cut for locks of love. So, unfortunately we didn't win.

My niece Madeleine did win the "big hair" contest.

Here is Stephen walking his laps with Aunt Anna and cousin Joel

Ben and cousins Braden and Joel taking laps with the Spirit Stick

There were also some perks like Massages for donations...(best I've felt in months!)

Eric and Stephen enjoyed the mini golf

Jacob was our big fund raiser for the evening. He went around solving the rubix cube for donations. He raised $70. Needless to say his time got faster and faster. I think his fastest time recorded was 2 min 22 secs. Not bad for a 7-year old! His first love is still football though!

On our way home we went through Spokane and visited our friends Cara and Jaime and their beautiful daughter Maddie (it was great to see you guys!) And then through Idaho Falls to show the kids where we were married.

It was great to get home after being gone so long, but we loved every minute of it (okay, not the vomiting part)But almost every minute of it! Thanks to everyone we got to see along the way!
We were greeted at home with news that our cat Venus had kittens. We have now given away two out of the three keeping only our new addition: Saturn.