Elephant Ears!!

Every year Brynne's Lee side extended family runs the elephant ear booth at the North Idaho Fair to raise money for missionaries in the family. Brynne has been working in this booth since she could tear paper towels. The thing is, you'd think we'd get sick of them.....

but NEVER.

We always enjoy that hot, fresh, artery hardening, sugary sweet goodness.

Hayden Lake (more!)

We've spent quite a bit of time on Hayden Lake this summer at Jon's parents' dock. His brother, Brandon and his kids were in town again this weekend. We had a fun couple of days!

Audrey caught her first fish on her own! (Emma helped get it onto the dock) They were so cute, because once they got it landed, they were both screaming and didn't want to touch it!!

So, Aunt Brynne had to release it. :)

Tyce was busy showing off his muscles for the ladies:

and we all got in lots of boating!

Jay, Audrey, Jonny, and Cade

In the boat: Grandpa Bruce, Emma, Brandon and Bruce

Brynne water skiing

Jon water skiing

Cade

JJ

Lovies

Jay with his favorite dock toy

CHEEKIES.

Cade has officially nicknamed this little guy CHEEKIES.

I think it's fitting...

You?

More House Progress

We have windows! And stairs!

It's looking like a house!

SILVERWOOD/other

I didn't take many pictures, sadly, but we had a fun day at silverwood.

Grandma Helen let us use her gold pass, so we got in for free!

Tyce chilled,

Cade rode the BIG roller coaster(!!!) Timber Terror,

Jay rode all the kids rides by himself,

and Mommy actually got in a few speed slides and tube rides.

A few other things we've been doing to wrap up the summer:

This week we will be making these big artery-hardening hunks of goodness,

We've been hitting many parks,

hiked tubbs to the peninsula with all three boys and spent the day out there,

we've been enjoying the newest member of the family,

doing LOTS of swimming in Nana and Papa's pool (even turned Mom's hair green)...Cade learned how to swim without any floaties!! Here he is with Austin and Brooklyn Simon:Daredevil Jay on the diving board:
Jay putting his goggles on Tyce:

And much more!! We got all of the school shopping done, and now we all feel like this:

It's been fun.

Tyce's Birth Announcement

Seattle Getaway!

Jon was working in Seattle and I was able to take Tyce and fly to meet up with him for a weekend getaway to watch the Red Sox vs. Mariners games. Spike and his girlfriend, Rachel, met up with us there.

We hit pike place market, cheesecake factory, breakfast at Great Harvest, IKEA and enjoyed 2 awesome games at Safeco Field!

We had great seats! It was a nice break.

House Progress

What a difference 1.5 weeks makes!

Tyce is 1 month!

This month:

-you went from waking up 3x's a night to 1x a night.

-got thrush, and gave it to mommy, too.

-started smiling

-went from 6 lbs 7oz at 2 days old to about 10 lbs!

-wiggled your way right into our family and we already can't picture life without you!

A new Jay.

From blonde locks to mo-hawks.

He's cute however he does his hair!

(but did I mention how much I miss those blonde locks?)