Long Lake Boating

We had the boat for the weekend and decided to a do a staycation.  Josie had a birthday party or something on Friday so she couldn't come with, but we got her out Saturday.  We hit Long Lake both Friday afternoon and Saturday. We had sunny weather and Conor, Kevin and Julie all got really good at mastering the new surf board. We got in tubing and knee boarding and swimming and lots of water fun. I love the family picture I got of all of us. Me driving and Kevin surfing. I think that should be our new Christmas photo.

Fun family time outside

We have been so busy having fun this summer that we have hardly had time to even go biking. We did make it out as a family at least once or twice. The kids are getting so good on their bikes. Yay!
We went paddle boarding down the Little Spokane River a couple beautiful days.  We have so much fun doing this together.  

More lazy summer days

Check out these beautiful raspberries! They were begging to be picked. I don't remember a time that picking raspberries was ever so easy. The berries were huge and plentiful. We ate yummy raspberry ice cream, smoothies, muffins and pie with these beauties.  We went to the lake beach a couple times to play in the sand and stay cool.  Lincoln got to drive with Pete in the mini excavator.  They had some wind damage and they were doing repair work.  We went to the swimming pool a few times.  Lincoln is finally tall enough to ride the big slide all by himself!  Going to the swimming pool is getting a lot easier for this mamma.  

Sullivan Lake Camping in July

We reserved a double campsite back in February so we have been looking forward to this camp trip for a looong time! The Kellogg's, the Osmun's the Rencher's and the Wilson's all made it to Sullivan Lake for 4 days of fun at Sullivan Lake. Unfortunately the the weather was a bit crappy. We had a full day of rain but we didn't let that ruin our trip. Dave kept the fire roaring and he even treated us to a chimney log.  Even though the weather was a bit cool we still were able to get on the lake and enjoy the boat-the Wilson boat that is.  We played on the beach with the kayaks and the paddle boards. The paddle boards came in really handy as we used them to ferry people to the boat and the beach. Lincoln was the favorite ferry man for sure. We all seemed to trust the 5 year old to keep us dry. We got in some great skiing, and tubing and knee boarding and we even tried pulling the paddle board behind the boat. Never a dull moment with the Kellogg's on the water. What a beautiful fun trip. We are sure lucky to live so close to such a beautiful place and wonderful friends.  The last picture is of us up at Mill Pond.  It is a beautiful little lake just up the road from Sullivan...no motor boats allowed, but the beauty is free for sure!  I love me some camping!

Happy Birthday Josie--9 it is!!!

My Josie girl is 9 years old!!  So, I was informed that I never make Josie a cool cake so we clearly needed to fix that.  The result was this really cool cake...I guess on the bright side Josie thought it was pretty awesome.  We surprised Josie with the best present ever...she got to get her ears pierced.  She was beside herself with excitement.  We headed to the mall the very next day.  Josie and Lyndsey had so much fun at the mall hangin out, shopping, eating icec ream and pretzels and smelling perfume and lotion at bath and body works.  

Since we were in town this year for Josie's birthday we were able to invite a few friends over for a friend party.  Ginger let us use her yard and pool so we had a small pool party with Reegan, Lyndsey, Emma, and Lauren.  We made these awesome sharpie t-shirts, swam and giggled and jumped on the trampoline, ate tons of candy and opened presents.  Happy birthday to the sweetest daughter anybody could ask for.  Now stop growing my beautiful young lady!!!