We're Back on the Blog!!!!

We're back online...after over a month of computer trouble, we finally got a new one but then didn't have a good program to compress pictures to be able to upload onto the blog! We've been SOOOO busy with all of our summer visitors and activities. Here's just a bit of what you've missed without my weekly blogging:
It snowed the last week in MAY!

We all LOVE the snow! A few months and we're back to snowboard season!

For now, we're enjoying weather in the 70s and 80s!

Jake graduated from Kindergarten!

Josslyn: Mrs.Santa (she calls herself)

Auntie Erin came to visit! It was heavenly!!!

We took the RV to a spot where we could snowboard in JUNE! (That's Jake...yes, you have to hike up to ride down!!)

The guys built a jump to take it to the next level...big surprise! (That's Nick!)

The kids at the top of the peak...13,500ft elevation!

I got a hair cut...and color...and an offer to teach next school year at a FANTASTIC high school, AND I ACCEPTED! Yeah. Exciting!!!

Jake and Daddy...riding together on the peak!

Joss and Mommy!

Our friend, Anthony took the kids and I off roading in his jeep! He even took off the doors so the kids could get wet and muddy! SOOOOO fun!

Some say we look alike now, with my new (actually my "real" color) hairdo! Score!

Enjoying their favorite morning drinks together in the RV!

Joss flashes a smile to get me to cut her favorite food.

This weekend, we camped at the lake: here's the view from the RV window! Beauty. (Breck, now 6 months old, jumped into the lake and swam for nearly 1 hr without hitting land!!! Crazy dog!)

Jake and Tye: Enjoying fireworks. Joss fell asleep in the RV and missed all the nighttime fun. Although, we went to a carnival in the afternoon...she won a blue ribbon for hoolahooping and the boys won TONs of ribbons for the many races they ran!

Sparkers! And Dave set off tons of great ground fireworks so our group had our own personal show after the town fireworks!

Family hikes have become a favorite pasttime in our household!

Our first canoe trip! Thanks for the canoe Charlotte and Mark!

Practicing paddling before we head out onto the lake!

Tye is SUCH an amazing boy!

Best friends (and enemies) braving the crawfish shore together!

The princess felt better sitting on the floor of the canoe instead of the seat!

Getting ready to set out!

What a 3-some! They are such angels.

The boys learned to ride 2 wheel bikes this spring, and tie their shoes, whistle, snap AND Jake lost a tooth!

Now they build jumps and pop wheelies. Tye is the risk taker...keep your eye on him! :)

We've been riding the quads lots and the boys have even gotten to ride a dirtbike.

A MOON in the forest! Little Josslyn is always losing her pants...those are 12mo old pants just for the record...also...she dresses herself so don't hold her wardrobe against me!

Mud Man!

A mud war!

3 kids who LOVE the mud!

Even the princess loves the mud!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

More camping!

Lots of fish have been caught this summer...

...by thrilled boys!

And we've had such amazing, lasting memories together.

I mean tons of yummy fish! Thank goodness our kids each anything!!

They found the "honeyhole!"

A family quad ride in Pike National Forest.

The kids are such troopers when we're camping, quadding, hiking, fishing, etc....Jake even carries Josslyn out of the water when she's had enough! And, Tye kills bugs for her (since she LOATHS all insects).

The water at this campsite was the prefect depth for the kids.

All smiles in the icecold water!