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Friday, August 24th, 2012

Cleaned our huckleberry cache from Wednesday. Now what should we make with them?…

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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012

A nice trip to the park, where Magnus showed off his ability to climb up the big slide and then slide back down.

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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

Elina joined us on a trip out to Trout Lake today. We went to see cool stuff and get more huckleberries. Elina got really excited upon seeing this cliff, exclaiming “Columnar Basalt!” Last year when I came here, I knew it was some thing she should see. We also had fun relaxing by a waterfall and seeing the Lava Bridge. We ended our trip by getting huckleberry milkshakes at the café in Trout Lake, so very delicious. We even made it back in time for our ward BBQ. Good Day Indeed.

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Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Ruth made these cookies for our ward BBQ tomorrow night. They are called Root Beer Cookies. And they were very delicious.

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Monday, August 20th, 2012

Vancouver has a soda shop. Dana heard about it today at work and right after dinner we went over to check it out. Dana loves soda and this place had a pretty wide selection, focusing mostly on locally made sodas. I picked out the jersey cream and the birch beer and Dana got the strawberry and vanilla bean sodas. Because we showed up around closing time, they also gave us some free nachos (woohoo!).

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Sunday, August 19th, 2012

I took too long getting Magnus into his chair this afternoon, so he went ahead and got into Dana’s. Dana wasn’t there to displace him so he stayed there during his meal.

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Saturday, August 18th, 2012

I took this early in the morning right after we had woken up. It does not represent the day, but it’s the only picture I took all day.

One of our neighbors had his birthday today. He turned 3. His family is Pulauan and they make lots of yummy food. They had chicken and beef and oysters (on the grill: they were amazing) and pork and fish. We stayed out there most of the afternoon and evening eating and playing. It was good times.

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Friday, August 17th, 2012

We gave Magnus an ice cream cone tonight. He had markedly less success with it than his first time.

Also this picture reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes comic.