Oh Summer, sweet Summer, where art thou Summer?

We had, seriously, the BEST summer ever. It was long, hot, filled with fun, sweet memories and just plain wonderful.

The most amazing thing about this summer was that Ben did not have to teach summer school. For the past few years Ben has had commitments during the summer that didn't allow us much time to be together as a family. But this year he worked very part time with a flexible boss :) So he was around to play with us a lot more this summer, it was a gift.

We started out by taking a road trip to visit my grandpa and grandma in Weiser, Idaho. There's really ONE main thing that happens in Weiser - The fiddle festival. So we planned our trip around going to that MAIN event. It was a real good time. It was exciting to see family, we capped our time by stopping in to see my Aunt and Uncle in Boise. (We also snuck in a quick visit to some friends of ours from Tacoma that moved to Boise recently - Yeah for the Knesals!)

Road Trip!

The Stoehr great-grands and kids!

My sweet Aunt Tammy! xo

 Arts Camp for Caleb and Nathan and VBS for Alena

Nathan strong and mighty

 HIKING with the kiddos!

Fourth of July was spent with friends, family and...guns. An interesting combination but super fun!

Does it get any better than this? True country livin'.

Trips to the pond to fish and hunt for frogs

Caleb with his frog Beans

Nathan fishing with dad

Riverfront Park!

A visit from our FUN FRIEND WINNIE!!!

Love ya Winnie!

A trip to Wenatchee to see the Sutherland clan; Jocelyn, Ethan and Kyle. Mama Susan hosted us as if we were queens. Love.

Kyle, Ethan, Alena, Nathan

Hello hot tub in 100 degree weather! :)

Lemonade Stands

Little boys keeping it cool

FUN, FuN, fUn, FUN trip to Tacoma - friend, water parks, zoo, etc

Arielle and Alena

Titus adoring Myron

I got to be at the shower for Joc and Hailey!

Mr and Mrs Titus and Ruby Cochran

They are training for the Olympics

PD Zoo with Hippes and Mocks

My gracious hostess

Rainer's game!

Baseball chic

CAMPING with friends - so extremely enjoyable

Lizzy, Alena, Luke, Caleb, Nathan, Isaiah

Da boys

MY boys

Best buds

Swim lessons

Alena waiting for her lesson

Looks like we had a fun summer huh? It WAS a blast. It's an amazing feeling when you get to a spot where you know, "this is our family," the 6 of us. What will we do? One thing we established this summer is, we are a family that has fun together! Good-by to summer for now - I anticipate your return!