Summer Fun

I have to catch up on a couple things we did this summer. First of all we went to another family reuion. We had a great time but it was pretty cold most of the time. It was at Red Fish Lake which is very beautiful, but because of the cold we did not get to enjoy swimming in the lake.

We celebrated Doug's birthday while we were there. He turned 28. I did not make a cake or anything and I forgot to bring the little gift that we bought for him. I'm sure he still was able to enjoy his birthday in loo of it being cold and everything else because he hasn't had time off in a while and it was a treat for him to just get some time off of work. Plus that day everyone said Happy Birthday to him like twenty times each and we sang the birthday song several times. Thanks to Grandma H, she did bring a small piece of cake to give to him while we sang the song for the third or fourth time.

While on our way over to Red Fish it rained pretty well and got all of our pillows, blankets and some of our clothes wet. I had to spend about three hours and over $10 at the laundry mat after getting there.

It was pretty uncomfortable sleeping. Our blow up mattress had a hole in it so by the end of the night were sleeping on the ground and through out the night we were in so many weird postions because of the deflating air that it was impossible to relax. On the last day we ended up throwing the thing is the trash and spating horrible names at it.

It was very enjoyable hangin out with the family and getting to know each other again. We had fun during the camp fire even to the point that the kids still have some of the songs stuck in their heads.

This is Miah when I was trying to distract her from the fact that Daddy had just left with Cameron and Lilly to go fishing. She ended up sitting on a rock crying for a little while next to the road entremely disappointed that she was not included.

These are just some pictures we took on our drive up. I think I must have left the camera on after these because I just put new batteries in before these pictures and by the time we tryed using the camera up there the batteries were dead. I was lucky to get the one picture of Miah and the video.

This is a video of one of the family activities that we did. It was so much fun. All we had to do was cut the foam floaties in half( which they got at the dollar store) and plastic lady bug and flower cover thingys that go around the handle like on a real sword. You would not believe how great this was. Everyone including grandma, all the aunts and uncles including all the kids enjoyed this activity for several hours. It was great because you could hit people has hard as you wanted and they wouldn't get hurt. It also made a reaaly loud noise which made it even better.

During the sword fighting some of the girls made bracelets out of buttons. They were cute.

We also enjoyed free fun at the fountain near the police station in Nampa. The kids really enjoyed themselves and we were able to hang back and watch. It was getting late so by the end they were pretty cold. It was a good time nonetheless.