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.