Sun is shining all around.....

The kids had great fun this afternoon in the backyard with water going most all of the afternoon. Steve came home and shot 500 photos of the girls on the Slip-N-Slide. He then edited his 500 shots down to the few in the video. The other day Emily told me she needed to wear her swimsuit everyday. She may just need a new swimsuit to have one that will fit all summer. A little Chopin in the background completes this water fun! (Chopin Etude in C minor, Op. 25)

The Last Splash of Summer....

Taking advantage of a warm Saturday afternoon we gathered our swimwear, smores sticks, and hotdog buns and headed to Kuna to Grandma Lockhart's house. She lives across the street from Indian Creek. The little park in her neighborhood that borders this creek has a great little swimming area that runs off to the side of this very swift flowing creek. During the summer months there are many floaters on tubes going down this creek. This is really an irrigation creek running through this natural creek bed, no cement here. When they turn off the irrigation water around the valley this creek dries up. You can walk where once it was knee or waist deep or deeper. There is a railroad tressel that crosses the creek very close to the swimming area too. Emily loving trains was enthralled as a train went by while she was on the floating mattress. It was very loud!

Summer fun in Washington....

We are in Washington visiting Steve's parents and here for a neice's wedding too. We have been enjoying the parks and waterfront inspite the grey and cloudy days. In fact we dodged the rain for a few minutes then hopped out of the car to play on the beach. Emily loves to play on the slides and swings and asks for them each morning when she wakes up!

Wallowa Lake - Memorial Day Weekend

We had a great weekend camping with friends and family at Wallowa Lake, Oregon. We loaded up three cars for our family which included our family, my sister, and my mother. Tami had some of her friends show up to complete our group of about 19. We had three campsites, 6 cars, and a whole lot smores supplies.

Summer has begun...

This is our first week of Summer break and no alarm clocks that we plug in, just a toddler that won't sleep in! We still haven't put the pool up, but we have gotten wet!

After our free lunch in the park we were off to another park to get wet and play. We ate ice cream with Grandma and watched a movie. And to top off the day, a stop at the library to begin the summer reading for prizes! This will be our summer, repeated many times over; lunch in the park, get wet, read, eat ice cream, read, get wet, lunch in the park...maybe a little free bowling and some camping too!