Summer in a Blink of an Eye

Say what? Where did summer go? I can't believe how fast it went by. I will give you a quick sum up of our summer through pictures so I can kind of make my blog current. Well I will try, it is kind of hard when you have to go some place to get the internet. But here we go....

This is the first view of our summer vacation. We packed up our house and moved it into storage and stayed with family for the summer. THANK YOU FAMILY!!! We love spending time with you. Another huge THANK YOU goes out my sister Alycia who came up from Utah and took the three older kids for a week so Kyle and I could pack up and move, it helped out so much.

When we got up there we did a lot of swimming, playing, riding bikes, berry pickin. All the fun stuff that you do during the summer. Here the kids are with the yummy strawberries they just picked. Karlee was so funny she had a bucket but I don't think many made it there. Most of them she ate. She would hover around my bucket and take them out and put them in her bucket and then eat them. we finally had to just hold her so she wouldn't anymore. But who could blame her, those are some good berries YUM!

What would be our summer without a trip to the ER. On 6/28, Kallie was riding her bike with Jaron at grandmas house she was riding pretty fast and turned her handle bars to soon and flew over the handle bars. She knocked her mouth really good, to the point that she knocked out 2/3 of her front tooth. We took her to the ER at one hospital and then after five hours of being there the doctors decided that she need to go up to the children hospital on the other side of town. There they took out the rest of her front tooth and stitch up her lip and checked out her hip (luckily, that is where her hip doctor works.) After they had bandages her up, she had to stay the day (they had finished working on her at 6am) and be observed in the hospital for the meds they gave her. She did a great job and healed up great!!!

My mom, sister and I put on a baby shower for my sister Alycia. It turned out great, it was a cute theme of "tweet baby girl" (a little birdie told me that Alycia is having a baby girl). It was a lot of fun to put together and we had a good turn out. The day before this Kallie had her bike crash and so she was really sad that she didn't get to go, but the pain kind of won out on this one.

Both of my parents sides of their family had reunions this summer. Here is a group shot of my mom's side. It was up in Wentanchee, WA. We went hiking, swimming, boating, playing in the sand, and visiting Levansworth, WA (a cute little German town) and camping. Other family members went water skiing, cannoning, tubing, rafting all the fun water stuff that freaks me out. But it was a really fun reunion- Thank you Anne Gene and family for putting it together.

My dads side also had one. I was in charge of this one. I had a lot of fun planning and was grateful for all those that came out to it and help me do it. My next post will have the fun stuff we did at it. Here is a group shot of everyone that came, actually I take that back this is a shot of the grandkids and great grandkids with G3 that came. I love being with family they are all so awesome.

We were able to grab a quick family photo of our little family at the reunion.

The following Monday, my sister, cousins, and our kids went to the spray park by G3 house. They were playing and having a great time when Jaron ran into a pole. The pole was still standing in the end, Jaron not so much. He had cut his forehead open and banged his nose up pretty good. So we took another trip to the ER. He got stitches and some x-rays to make sure that there was not anymore damage then what we could see. He now has a scar right above his eye. But it works out well for his Halloween costume he is going to be Harry Potter.

We made our trip to Utah to visit with Alycia. It was fun, we love spending time with Alycia- even though she had to be on bed rest. But it didn't last long because three days after we left she had her baby. Lulu came YAY! what a cutie she is. While in Utah we were able to go to my cousin Aaron wedding and got to spend the day with my cousin Elizabeth who I have not seen in awhile (above picture).

Kallie got her new tooth and it looks amazing. She will now have to wear a flipper until she is out of high school or when her mouth if full grown and she can get an implant. But she looks great.

Uncle Russell took all the grandkids to the fair again this year and i got to tag along. It always reminds me of Charlotte Web and the fun you can have at the fair.

On Labor day we took another quick trip to Utah to see Olivia get blessed. It was a lot of fun to be there and to be able meet Lulu. Such a sweetie Alycia and Cody.

And the kids are headed back to school. They are loving school and are excited for it everyday. I am glad. I hope that you all had a great summer too. I can't believe how fast it went by.