Lynden Washington

In June, Amber and Lawrence invited us up to Birch Bay for a long weekend at one of their timeshare locations.  Birch Bay was nice, but we really enjoyed the neighboring town of Lynden Washington

 

Lynden is a Dutch themed town in northern Washington state.  Near Birch Bay and Blaine Washington

 Even the Strip malls have big windmills and Dutch facades

What we really loved was the Lynden Museum. The town really put their skills and incredible collections together for one of the best small town museums we've ever seen.

Ever exhibit was a scaled down structure of a farm, pioneer house, Victorian parlor, forties coffee shop fully complete with working 1920's refrigerator, etc..

A huge collection of carriages, sleighs, and surreys with the fringe on top

The best part was the scaled down replica of Main street in the 1920's

Every building first and second story is packed with original artifacts that belong in the City Drug, Lynden Dept. store, dentist office, train station, fire dept., church, etc.

And on our way out of town we stopped in at the wayside church for a little prayer of thanks for such a great trip.

 

 

 

Fun Summertime Photo

Jody, Aunt Kathy Brown, Brea, Raevon

Just a fun summertime photo.  This is from a Tea Party we went to in 2011.

Oliver, Brea's Car, Appears on The Blog Old Parked Cars

Recently, Brea found an image of her car on the internet.  A blog, Old Parked Cars, took several pictures and posted them on their site.  All the commenters loved it! 

Mother's Day takes Flight

Mom has wanted to see the real Spruce Goose ever since it came to Oregon.  So we went on Mother's Day with James and Jeanette in tow  (pun intended, because they met at Speed's Towing, get it, in tow? any who......)

 

The Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon is incredible. It is jam packed with originals and reproductions, and everything is completely restored in perfect condition.  There is something from every era. 

 

 The Spruce Goose is huge.This is an attempt to get a picture of it with Jeanette and Jody in the frame, but it is only the under side end of the wing.

Inside the belly of the beast. The Cargo hold of Howard Hughes Spruce Goose, which is made of birch by the way.

 

James takes a biplane for a little spin.

 

Now off to the space museum in the space shuttle.

 

Yes Jody, they did land on the moon. 

They filled the bottom half of the lunar lander with popcorn so they would know if there was too much radiation near the moon. Ok that's not true, but they did land on the moon.

 

To infinity and beyond.

 

Not related to space or air travel, but an amazing part of history to stand in front of.

 A section of the Berlin wall. Yes, "the Hoff" could have performed right above this section.

 

 

 

 

 

Tulip Festival

 

We went to the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in April.

Mom has always wanted to go, so we finally did it this years.

Along with fields of beautiful tulip, they also had a little fair atmosphere.  Wooden shoe rides, Steam engine tractors, a real wooden shoe maker, (quit flirting Mom) and corndogs.

 

 

Raevon taking some time to smell to tulips.

 

Brea and Raevon deep in a tulip wonderland.

Jody tries on a pair of wooden shoes.

Meatball also tried on a wooden shoe.

 

Steam engines from the turn of the century.

Tape- Take 2!

 

 

From boring tape dispenser, I am sick of looking at on my desk, to cute!  I just put strips of all of my different designs on there! 

-Jody

TAPE!!

I have recently become obsessed with tape.  (Me obsessed with something? Strange!) Here are some pictures of one of my projects.  Pretty soon everything in the house will be covered in decorative tape!

BEFORE - Boring File Cabinet

AFTER - Fun File Cabinet covered in Pink and Chevron Duct Tape!

I covered this file cabinet in matching chevron and pink duct tape.  I used most of the chevron roll and not that much of the pink so a little over one roll.  It took WAY less time than painting. Plus, it looks like it should be filled with rainbows, unicorns and scratch and sniff stickers, maybe some Hello Kitty stuff too.

-Jody