I just found this post from July that I thought I had posted but apparently it was only a draft. Here's to belated posts  :)

Kenya was in the play "Annie" this month. They performed in an older thatre that had no air conditioning during a 104 degree hot streak. Her make up was mealting down her cheeks and she was miserably hot, but did great and had lots of fun non the less.

 

We got a chace to go to the Yakima Bears game with Elijah's cub scout troop, the package came complete with hot dogs and pop. It was also breast cancer awareness week so all the girls got pink t-shirts.

 Annecy can never figure out what she wants to do with her hair, we will twist extentions in it and after a week or two she wants then out (even though they last a couple of months) then she want to do something else with it because she hates brushing it out every morning.  She really wanted to straighten it but you have to use the really fancy straightners that heat up to 450 degrees.  So she worked so hard for a couple of weeks and made 37 dollars to buy her own straightner and ta da.  She is so cute no matter what her hair looks like, but I really think this do is one of my favorites.

Loving the summer and wishing it would never end, hope we can post some more pictures of our summer fun soon.

Vacations and what nots!

We just got home from the best vacation yet! We love our family!!! It is so nice to take time with just our family and remember how fun it is to just be together. We went to Southern Oregon and stayed in our Trendwest timeshares in Redmond and then a few days in Klamoth Falls. We hiked state parks, played lots of board games and Wii. Had "slumber parties" (which really just mean stay up way too late and every one gets to pick thier own candy) we also scavenged every thrift shop we could find, looking for cool treasures. (we love doing that) We found out the kids really like finding new spots to pose for pictures so I am really cutting down on the full spectrum of what we took, but here is a few.


Here are a few pictures of us hiking at Smith Rock State Park

 Isaiah loves to find cool spots to pose and then get Elijah to jump in with him.  Elijah got on the branch and then said he needed help getting down.  Isaiah wanted to show him how close he was to the ground so he gave him a small push and the next picture is what became of that.

 Every cranny in a rock had to be posed in, but it sure was cute.

 Elijah made money doing chores on vacation and purchase an adorable "Teddy Bear Hampster"  he loves snuggling with it and apparently it is very relaxing for the hampster as well.

 I think Isaiah got tired of posing with Elijah and just decided to discard him.

 Tadd and these three kids got to go to an old logging mill.  Unfortunatly Annecy was not quite done with her school, so she and mom stayed in the car to finish. I did not know I was the mother of so many strange posing kids.

 One of the reasons we go to Oregon for vacation is our favorite church is there.  They meet in thier amphitheatre in the summer and we happen to catch their last day outdoors.  It was very cool but so beautiful.

Well I think that may be all I can fit right now, but I will try to do a second vacation post soon with more pictures.  We should have some great ones of Isaiah and Annecy's soccer, as well as Elijah's football.  Kenya starts her new play soon called "Amahl and the night visitors" it is a Christmas play about the wisemen.  All of this should give us plenty to post about, not to mention our Harvest Party this week, the kids are still not sure what they are dressing up as, so it should be interesting.