The Doeschers: June 2016

Thursday, June 30, 2016

X-Kids

That's what I find on my phone's camera roll:

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Backstage

A friend took these backstage during dress rehearsal a few weeks ago.

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Hair Color

The boys wanted to get their colored with a more permanent color. So we did.

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Monday, June 27, 2016

Kassidy's blankie

This thing is constantly transforming into new shapes and sizes.

Hopefully there is enough left of it store away once she is done with it.

Saturday, June 25, 2016

The boys, Kassidy, Keora and I went lavender picking yesterday. About an hour north from Little Elm is a small but quaint lavender farm. We had so much fun, bought a few lavender goodies ( all made from local ingredients right there), but did not have time to have lunch at their small cafe. Well, there were not enough chairs left for us. Haha!

They all learned the right way to cut and which stems to cut.

We cut four bundles of lavender!

Lukas was all about catching little grasshoppers. We also found a velvet ant, which is really a wasp. The female's sting is quite brutal.

The little black and red creature is the velvet ant. It moved incredibly fast and was hard to get a picture of.

There were also geese, miniature donkeys and goats. Lots of fun.

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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Thursday

Lounging poolside and snacking on fruit while big sister is dancing the day away.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Blueberry Picking

As Katharine is half way through her first week of her five week dance intensive with TBT, I have to make sure everybody else has some fun, too! So today we went blueberry picking. We picked almost 10 pints of fresh, organic berries and they are delicious! Lukas, Lennon, Keira and Kassidy dos an awesome job picking all those berries with me in about 30 minutes!

Sunscreen and bug repellent on, and off we go!

They made sure to look for the bluest berries!

Getting there.

Mission accomplished!

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

I Don't Just Sew Pointe Shoes

The strap on Katharine's character shoe broke today. I really don't wa t to. Buy a new pair of character shoes. Floss and needle it is instead. Let's hope this works!

Happy Birthday to me

So I turned 48 today.

I still feel like 28, but look less and less like that every year..

Random Erik facts:

I finally got around to reading all of the Harry Potter books last month- I'm moving on to a bunch of Stephen King novels this summer

I always go out and eat Pho for lunch every Monday

Favorite TV shows: John Oliver / Silicon Valley / Fargo

I read the online version of the New York Times every morning

I love going to FC Dallas games

I walk up the stairs at work and skip the elevator and will take an afternoon walk around the soccer stadium every afternoon for exercise

I still want to learn how to play the banjo one day

I like to watch TV and/or play games late at night when I'm not freelancing

I prefer texting to calling

I hate driving, and am really bad at directions and parking my car

I love owning a dog

I love my wife and kids too :)

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Shopping

This is a collage of some of the pictures Erik sent me from the German food store. Yes, I picked out a few things to bring back.

In the evening he got to go see the US- Ecuador game life. We again watched from the comfort of our couch. It sure was an exciting soccer match!

Katharine took lots of pictures at Pike's Market

Meanwhile at home, Keira and Kaili celebrated surviving 5 days ( or 25 hours) of dance at the TBT junior summer intensive. It was the first time for both of them.

Katharine and the rest of the family went to Bainbridge Island where she found another lavender store.

View from the ferry.

She j he's I like hydrangeas.

Lunch.

Meanwhile at home I scheduled a second doctors visit for Lennon as he developed a rash on his face. Possibly from the medicine he's been taking for his infected ant bites. Life is exciting! Poor little guy.

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Seattle and Hair Gel

While Katharine and Erik enjoyed high tea at the Fairmont Hotel, Lennon got bit by ants which caused an infection and kept him in bed for a day. We decided to put some colored hair gel in the boys hair.