Pool Party

These are just a few pictures when we went to the pool for Clint's birthday and had it all to ourselves, It was so fun. and Tyson and Owen both went on the big slide lots of times. (which is Great for ty who Hates water!!)Trish and Kaleb were there with us as was Clint's boss Kaye who was there to make sure we didnt drown or anything :) It was so nice of her to let us have the park 4 hours before it opened.



Ty and I
Owen and I

older stuff

Ok we need to get caught up with our blog there will probably be a few post. I will try to catch up every couple of days or so, so keep checking back with us to see if we have anything new up. we have been up to a lot. this post is just some older pictures of the boys.

The boys playing out front at our house and up in willard at grandma and grandpas house.



They really didnt want to ride the four wheeler or behind it in the wagon, but on this trip they got brave and did it. (They loved it)

Gavins Birthday

OK we are a little behind. at the end of augest Gavin turned one. We have been super busy with company ,clint starting school and 3 birthdays in a week and a half. with Gavins on the 28th of augest and clints on the 2nd of september and mine on the 7th we had lots of fun. for clints birthday we went to the scerea pool and had it to ourselves before it opened for a few hours.for pictures of that you can look on trish's blog. maybe I will get around to posting that later. Here are some pictures for gavins birthday.We had two parties one with just the 5 of us with a small chocolate cake on his real birthday then a family party a week later.














His first nose buttering. that is my family tradition to help you slide through the next year, You are supposed to try hard not to get your nose buttered but it is too easy to do with a one year old we had Owen and Tyson do it.
Gavin wanted to eat it.

Gavins, Tyson, and Owens new skills.

We have a few little, low quality, videos of gavin doing some cute stuff from this weekend. He does things so fast and for such a short time its hard to get out the video camera, so our phones had to do for these. They both happened on Friday. Gavin has been playing with a recorder for about two days. Thursday he tried his hardest to figure out how to make sound, but it just didnt work out. On Friday, he finally figured it out. He was so proud of himself, every time he was able to make some noise, he would just giggle and giggle.

The second video came just a few minutes later. Tiffany decided to see if he would walk, since he was in an energetic mood. He actually did take some steps, quite a few times. We have seen him take one, maybe two steps at a time, but he was taking three or more at a time. He was so happy and proud of himself. I love to see him do so well, and be so happy about it.

This last video is a little better quality. We found a little t-ball set at shopko this weekend, and thought it would be fun to let Owen and Tyson try it out indoors. We took a while to show them how to do it, then they really took off by themselves. They had a ball, and it was cute to see their personalities shine through.

Sandpoint Trip, Pt. 2

Since we got back from Sandpoint last week, and its been a while since we posted, this one will be kind of long. The vacation was great, but we got off to kind of a rocky start. The day before we left, as soon as Owen woke up, he threw up all over in his bedroom. Fearing that he may have had a flu, or even the swine flu, he watched him pretty carefully the rest of the day. He acted just fine, no fever, no more complaints. We figured he had just gotten too warm in his room or something, or he ate something that didn't agree with him. We left the next day, and he seemed fine. We were doing good, making great time, and about an hour and a half away Tyson threw up in the car. We pulled over and cleaned him up, but it was obvious he still didn't feel well. As we were driving through Coeur d'Alene, in the middle of construction (it was bad, we were hardly moving) he threw up again (this time, mostly in a bowl we had prepared for any problems). When we got there, it began a pandemic. Tiffany got sick the next day, so did Gavin. Then Tricia, then ken, then Kaleb. All with vomiting, some with diarrhea. Paula had some naseua, and I (Clint) had some diarrhea a day or so after everyone else, but we fared far better than anyone else. The only good news is that everyone was only sick for about 12 hours or less when they got it, it hit hard and it hit fast. It was just a miserable 12 hours.

When Gavin threw up, it was so bad because we never knew when it would come. He would be happy and smiling, and then just drench you with puke. This is a picture of me after he threw up on me. Not only did he get on my shirt, but I tried to pull him away from me so he wouldn't get dirty, but as i pulled him, he grabbed my shirt, pulled it away from me, and vomited directly onto my chest. Thanks Gavin.

Well, even though I made it sound really bad, we actually did have a lot of fun. The fireworks are always good there, and we were able to see a lot of family and friends we don't see very often. The boys loved being able to run and frolic at Grandma and Grandpas house. Any time they get somewhere bigger than our tiny living room, they just run and run and run. Here are some pictures of them enjoying the outdoors.

Owen running in the front yard. He thought it was the best thing in the world.

Tyson in front of Grandmas flowers. They love running around.

Gavin in his stroller. He was getting some teeth in, but he still was pretty happy most of the time.

I was surprised how much Gavin enjoyed the grass. Tyson and Owen were not huge fans at this age.

Tyson playing indoors with the stencils. He was acting like he was taking pictures of me while i took pictures of him.

Owen saw Tyson doing that, and thought maybe he was missing out. He thought it was kind of funny himself.

I love this picture of Gavin. I know he has a great smile, but he looked so cute when he pulled this pose. I don't see this side of Gavin too often, but it looked pretty cute.

Grandpa took the boys on a walk out on some paths he made in his field. Tyson and Owen love to go and look at all the flowers, trees, grass, bugs, etc... While we were out on a walk, Tyson was pretending to be an airplane.

Owen and Tyson picked some flowers for Grandma on our walk. Owen wanted to hold them all, and he looked pretty cute.

During our stay, we took a few walks, there is just so much pretty stuff to see there. On our way towards Sandpoint, I saw this sign and it made me laugh. I guess this is either because of the bad economy, or an out of control cat population, or both.

This was pretty neat. As we were coming back from our walk, Tiffany heard something in the bushes, and we found this baby fawn. We approached it slowly, but we couldnt see the mother. We took a few more steps, then we saw the mom running away from it. Not wanting to cause too much of a disturbance, we took a few more steps, and got a somewhat decent picture. He was a cute little guy, just kind of sat there. Wish I could have gotten a better one, but he looked kind of scared.

These pictures are from Green Bay, one of the rocky beaches along the lake Ponderay. It is gorgeous there, even though the water is absolutely freezing. We try to go up at the warmest part of our trip so we can at least make it in up to our ankles. It also has a great collection of skipping rocks along the shore.

I love the view from some of the upper cliffs. it was a great day to be out and about.

This is one of the cliffs that people jump off of. It is about 50 ft or so at the highest point, and the lower jumping area is about 25 ft. We saw a few people preparing to jump off, and I was able to catch the braver of the two doing a front flip on his way down. As he came up he yelled "i'll need another beer before I do that again!"

Kenny was the only brave one in our group that would jump. He opted not to do a front flip. I don't blame him.

We had a great time in Sandpoint, and the best part was just being able to see everyone and enjoy good company. Now we are just trying to get back in the groove of everyday life. At least there is no school yet.

Fun Outside and In

well clint had the day off today so we went for a little nature walk. there was only one duck so we fed it, it was one lucky duck to get all that bread to itself. this was cute the boys threw the bread at the same time.



This is just some pictures clint got around the place

this frog was huge there was also some tadpoles that were like 3 inches long the boys loved it.
Total forced smiles!
This is our new car we are loving having a car we can rely on.
We have been having lots of rain showers and one day while it was pouring down rain this pretty rainbow appeared. I liked how the clouds were.
After church the boys zonked out this is how we found them I wonder what they were doing before the fell asleep.
The pool has been fun this year, my boys dont really like swimming but they love sprinklers so this is a happy medium they think it is a drinking fountain.




We are having a fun summer and we hope you are too.