sandpoint 2016

we had so much fun in sandpoint last month. its always one of our favorite weeks of the entire year. 

tagg & sully were lucky enough to play with max, lucy, vivian and jon's legit coke machine all week.

tess loved the boat.

driving it too.

she was pretty much in heaven.

sully sped around in the little canoe. so freaking cute. 

tagg and max counted the minutes each afternon until becky would let them go into the hot tub. :)

i counted the minutes until smores time.

delicious raspberry scones becky made one morning.

craig had a great time surfing with the boys.

SUPing. 

fishing!

each evening my dad would hide little treats/toys around the property and let the kids hunt for them. they loved it. 

grace and leah babysat the kids one night so the adults could enjoy a dignified dinner at a restaurant. tess loved selfie time!

i bumped into these two while running one morning. 

paddle boarding with pretty grandmas.

basically teenagers.

my mom sure does love her some jet skiing. 

and i love when i get up!

best buds tubing.

such a relaxing week.

the boys had a freaking blast sleeping out on the porch.

on our last night in sandpoint craig and i took tagg out for a late night dairy depot milkshake run. 

after we said goodbye to the rands and thanked them for another fabulous week we stopped by the park to take some pictures on the pretty bridge. 

on our drive back to seattle we met up with jocelyn and george at the spokane outback. a perfect way to end a perfect week!

summer stuff

we went with the gessels to see 21 pilots. holy crap that was a great concert.

i looooove their music and they put on such a great show.

out of body dancing!

i had custom stamps made for our eggs/cartons. i love how they turned out. (guess i named our situation 'plum tree farm'. we do have plum trees..... :) )

 

i found tess chomping on an apple that had fallen from our tree. hope it was worm free! 

megan came in town just in time for kaitlin's bday. we went downtown for hello robin, saw a naked man in a window, "borrowed" an old wood door and watched the bachelor back at my house. pretty much a prefect night. 

dahlias from our yard. how much longer do you think i will be able to make them take dumb pictures like this?

she loves the swing!

and the boys loved their week and skyhawks sports camp. 

weeeeeeee weeeeeeee!

can i eat her?

rachelle's birthday

my mom and i took rachelle downtown for a spa/pool day for her birthday. we randomly all showed up fancy! :)

after our fantastic massages (and exploring the spa facilities a bit) we headed out to the beautiful pool. quite the view! 

ladies who lunch.

ladies who begrudgingly get in the pool to have their picture taken.

once we were in the water though it felt great. such a fun day. 

and we loved celebrating it was rachelle. such a sweet, beautiful and amazing DIL/SIL. xx

camping. and i mean camping.

a few weeks ago we went camping with the gessels and thompsons. it was very fun. 

the drive through the mountains to get to the campsite was beautiful.

once we arrived, matt set up his fancy bbq and we had a seriously delicious meal. cool boy sweats!

tagg was so excited about his banana boat he couldnt stand still for a picture. 

once the kids went to sleep we stayed up suuuuper late roasting smores and listening to matt's crazy stories. just look at our faces. 

the girls. we have so much fun together. even when outhouses are involved. 

the group the next morning. not too shabby for roughing it! we had such a great time. lets do it again.

tagg at scout camp

tagg attended scout camp for his first time this summer. he had a blast. they were long days (1.30pm-9.30pm) but he loved every second. 

i mean guns and twinning nikes? a good time. 

they had so many cool projects for the boys. this was them shooting off their bottle rockets. 

the favorite project? this DIY hexbug. so freaking awesome.

hes getting so old. stop it.