Fishing, Skiing, and tubing

We spent an extended weekend at Canyon Ferry Lake. It was the kids first "camping" experience, complete with sleeping in a tent and roasting marshmellows and hotdogs. Joey caught a fish early Saturday morning and was determined to catch another one...so every free minute that he was not in the water he was fishing. Evie really liked the jet ski...and she really liked it to go fast! I am pretty sure that is a warning of how she will drive in 13 more years!


Joe also tried water skiing for the first time. He caught on fairly quickly as you can see.

Evie was so glad that he came back in one piece she ran over to give him a hug!

Swim Lessons

Thanks to Jessica's help Joey and Evie got 2 weeks of swimming lessons. Joe and I went to their last lesson and it was great to see how far they had come. Joey can swim underwater, tread water, float on his back, and even go under to get things off the bottom of the pool. Evie for the most part just got really comfortable being in the water. Here are some pictures of the last lesson.

Swing-set and the Summer-time

We had this swingset built for the kids this summer...their favority thing to do on it...is look over the fence at what the neighbor kids are doing. Go figure. Evie spent the first 10 days swing non-stop. But the slide has been too hot with the sun directly on it. We will be getting woodchips soon, but it just seems like every weekend we have something to do...so eventually we will be geting to all the little things. We had approximately 18 days of >100 degrees so we had to find a way to cool off. Here are some pics of the kids in the kiddie pool we got.