Labor Day

We had a fun weekend at my parents new (to them) cabin in McCall. We walked to town, played on the beach and in the lake, had some ice cream in ice cream alley, checked out the old little town of Roseberry, napped, read, ate, ate some more, and spent some quality time with family. We sure are going to enjoy spending weekends at the cabin. Come see us sometime!

Preschool!

Ellie's first day of preschool was today. After I picked her up from school we met Dan at McDonalds for lunch. I think she was more excited about having lunch with daddy than going to school...BUT...she also had a great time at school and said she wanted to go everyday. Sorry babe, only 3 days a week.

Roaring Springs

One of our goals for the summer was to go to the water park with Lanae before she left for college. Colton had fun in the toddler area and also in the wave pool with Lanae. Ellie had fun on a BIG slide where she slid down on a mat all by herself. Her other favorite was the lazy river. It was pretty $$$ but probably a fun thing to try to do once every summer.

Huckleberries

We love huckleberries, and yesterday we were able to stop and pick a half gallon on our way home from McCall. = )

The kids had fun "picking". I think they enjoyed stomping and sitting on the huckleberry bushes even more. They didn't do this on purpose but it seemed like every time I started eyeing a bush full of large berries one of the kids would come barreling over to see what I was up to. We all had fun though!

creative girls

Ellie was playing outside with her neighbor friend and they came running in the house to show us what they had been up to. They found some tape and made these cute little costumes. They said they had a show for us but then ended up being too shy to perform.

Lewiston

From Wenatchee, the kids and I drove to Lewiston with my parents and spent a few days before riding back to Boise with Charli, Ethan and Clayton.

Here's a few pictures from the ranch...

Ellie had fun picking some of the tulips that mom and dad planted around the barnyard.
Colton was wondering why the horses weren't coming to greet him

Ellie and Grandma Kristy taking a stroll

Wenatchee

I'm finally getting around to blogging about the rest of our Mother's day weekend...
After a night in Richland we drove up to Wenatchee for a night. We went to celebrate my cousin Natalie's, daughter's 1st birthday. The party was at Uncle Danny and Aunt Heather's beautiful house where they had a little RV park all set up for the out of town guests. Ellie and Colton had fun sleeping in the camper and running around on their beautifully landscaped acres of grass.

Cousins Ellie and Maddy digging in the Horseshoe Pit

Birthday cake is SO much fun!
Jake, Peighton and Natalie

Colton LOVED giving Peighton kisses