Camping pictures

We went camping once this summer in July.  I don't care for camping much, but camping on the lake for a few days is my type of camping!  I just wanted to get some pictures on, so they aren't in any particular order.

Ali got to try out skiing.  I can't wait for her to try again next year, she did great!

Our family tube ride!

Grant and Ali found some frogs.

Kinda embarrasing, but it shows his great tan!

The water was a little cold for Grant!

Summer vacation so far

We started our Summer Vacation off with a little trip down to southeastern Idaho for my baby brother's wedding.  It was fun to see all of our family and friends.

While we were there we played a little too with some boat rides,

Some tubing, 

and some goofing off.  Grant cracks us up all the time with his funny faces.  When I downloaded my camera this is what I got and we laughed and laughed.  So I decided to include them all so you all could have a nice laugh too!

Some of us did a little bike riding

and a little hiking.

And Trisha got herself a new CAR!

Summer is here!

 Summer is officially here at our house today!  Ali's last day of school was yesterday and we finally finished our play-set yesterday.  After 2 weeks of prepping for this baby and putting it together and laying the mulch, it is ready for some summer use.  The kids were out on it first thing this morning in their pj's and that is fine by me.  I'm glad they are enjoying it.

Here are a couple random photos I found on my computer from last month.  

Happy Summer everyone, hopefully the sun sticks around for a while!

Easter, better late than never!

I know I'm really late with Easter pictures, but I've been busy.  We had a wonderful Easter with some beautiful weather to enjoy.  The kids were up bright and early looking for their Easter baskets.  

 They both got some fun toys, including kites to fly later on in the day. 

Dan and I got to hide the Easter eggs out in the yard for the young and old.  Jake and Janelle got to come spend the Easter weekend with us and didn't want to miss out on the Easter egg hunt since it is tradition to have money in those eggs.

Grant checking out how much money he found.

We got to have a Easter picnic outside and some of us even ate some roaster Peeps afterwards. 

Ali and Grant dressed up in their Easter clothes ready for church.

Grant's song

Grant LOVES to sing, but I very rarely get him to sing for other people. A couple of months ago I heard him singing his primary songs and he was singing this song word for word. I hadn't taught it to him or sang it with him at all. All the credit has to go to our primary music leader, who is amazing! Anyway, this is now one of his favorite songs and I think he is pretty cute singing it.

Updated dinning room

Daniel and I have been working on another wood project.  This past week we finished our three 6 foot floating shelves.  We decided to put 2 of them in our dining room and here are what they look like.

We got curtains for our dinning room also and it is starting to look a little more homey.

Console table

Daniel and I did a couple woodworking projects a week or so ago.  He decided I finally had a cool hobby that maybe he would take up too.  It is kinda fun to go out in the garage after the kids go to bed and we just get to work together.  Better than sitting in front of the tv all night.  So we made this console table one night to go against this wall.  Then on Monday on his day off we made us a very heavy, sturdy work bench.  I call it a work island because it turned out way bigger than I expected, but it is really nice to have to work on so we aren't doing everything on the floor bent over.  I also got a couple new tools for Valentine's Day.  I got a Kreg Jig that we built the whole work bench with, a stand to put my miter saw on (you can kinda see it on the side in the picture), and a new router.  I guess it pays to have my husband pick up the same hobby cuz then we can spend twice as much on tools :)

This is the Evans shrine in our front entry :)