Lazy Lake Afternoon

Another really strange contrail. 

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We spent the afternoon out at Uncle Don and Aunt Holly's cottage they had rented for the week.  Heidi and Ken had come to our house at 6:30 am and even though they were sleepy (but not grumpy), we brought them along with us.

Adam and Andrew on the Super Mable. 

Haha- Kate!!!

Always amazing food when you have Aunt Holly involved. 

The boat house looks very regular on the outside, but inside it is very bright and colorful, I think it may have been Jimmy Buffet inspired. 

Some of these pics were taken for the express purpose of showing Joan how everything is still the same there. Great memories from many, many years ago!!

And again with the pool...

Some more memories with Jon and Brian:

It looks like Brian is a contortionist here:

All four doing handstands:

Saturday night- after his haircut:

This morning:

he has a haircut too. 

You don't have to match if you are swimming in your backyard. 

Long eyelashes make you look cuter:

Sweetness:

Kids Jumping in the Pool

More July - the Jon and Brian edition

The end of the "Jon and Brian" week is looming and we are happy to have had them all this week. Some of the highlights were the POOL, (um, it better have been), boating on Lake Lillanona, eating pizza, dorm style sleeping in the tv room, shopping, Six Flags.

Patriotic Piggies on the only girl:








Landon wanted a mohawk.....


But he settled for a fauxhawk......
and did not enjoy the hair dryer required to make it stay up.


He wanted to play hide and seek so they told him he could be the seeker. "How high can you count Landon?" I think I can count to 10" "Well then count to 10 three times." So he did. Then he chased them for a very long time all over the yard and inside the house. The hiders were armed with Motorola Talk-abouts and would actually call for back up when the 4 year old came near them. True story.


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Off to the hamburger place for burgers and fries. Part of what you must do in the summer.

Cousins are the Best!

The kids are happy when Jon and Brian are here! An outing to Cabela's is one of our "must-do's" when they visit.  Andrew C. was lucky (?) to be able to join the fray for a couple of days. 

Christmas Day

We had a wonderful Christmas day! Santa was quite generous even though we thought he was going to cut back this year.  We celebrated with Grandma, Grandpa and Maria, as well as  Ash and Uriah, Leanne,  Vicki, Dan, Jon and Brian. The pictures we have are mostly of the children. Adults just aren't that cute on Christmas morning :)

Skipping to dinner because it easier than rearrranging all the photos. 

Gord was in charge of making Pumpkin Ravioli:

Here is a little timeline of how the whole thing works:

Ricotta and pumpkin filling:

Served with Alfredo sauce.

Present opening:

He tried on each item of clothing as he opened it up:

Yay- a Wii!

Her trademark surprise look:

Opening his stocking stuffers:

checking for more:

Even Saff got a toy: