July 24th

Uhhh? Jail birds Jude and Evan are found making shivs to help their jailbreak. :)

This Wednesday afternoon Nicole and Jude met up with Evan and holli for some frozen yogurt at sweet mutiny. 

July 23rd

Madeline and Jude have been attending vacation bible school at living faith fellowship church this week. VBS is every evening from 6-8. Here is Jude with his buddy/classmate Toby. Jude and Toby are in the tan tiger sharks group and Madeline is in the turquoise turtles. :)

July 22nd

Looks like all of that summer playing us catching up with Jude and Hayden. 

July 21st

The kids worked really hard this spring to earn free tickets to silverwood theme park. They each read for ten hours! 

This Sunday afternoon we drove north for a wonderful day of water slides and roller coasters. It was a perfect family day and the kids were awesome. 

July 20th

Jude and Evan creat body armor with mud. 

July 19th

Teen beach movie party at the marbuts 

July 18th

Flip flops and lemon drops

July 17th

Beyblade world championship at Hayden's house

July 16th

Picking cherries with the Anderson's

July 15th

One of the neighbors up the hill very generously put in this awesome basketball court and has allowed us all to use it. This Monday evening We hung out with the Russell's and had an impromptu dads versus boys game if basketball. Madeline and Hadleigh had gymnastics lessons in the grass next to the court. 

July 14th

Pizza bagels have been the favorite meal at our house. Mmmmmm

July 13th

The kids are pretty great at keeping themselves entertained. This Saturday afternoon Madeline and her friend Olivia made a treasure hunt for Jude. Jude was slightly disappointed to find the treasure was his own candy. 

July 12th

Madeline and her friends started a backyard gymnastics camp. Here Avery and Madeline help Olivia with her back handspring. 

June 11th

Tonight Matt asked Jude if he would like to hang this deer up in his room. He was thrilled to say the least. The smile on his face was priceless!!! 

July 10th

Jordan and Madeline had a creative idea to put sprinkles on their toe nails!!! 

July 9th

We found more friends at the Moscow pool!!! These sweet gymnasts were having all kinds of fun trying to do their tumbling tricks in the pool. 

July 8th

We are sure loving the giant chalk board papa Dennis made Nicole for her birthday! So  it has been a birthday sign, countdown board, bucket list and now a fun piece of subway art. 

July 7th

On our way home from the cabin we stopped for lunch at roosters in pendelton. The kids loved that they got to pick their dessert treat out of the hen house! 

July 6th

Three men in the kitchen! The moms got a break from kitchen duty while the guys made French toast and sausage. 

July 5th

After  5 great days of cousin time we loaded up the king family wagon and headed south to Ukiah, OR for 4 days with the McKay's at their family cabin. It was a wonderful time relaxing with our friends. Our weekend was full of Camp fires, four wheeler rides, and lots of laughs.

July 4th

What a sad morning it was. :( after breakfast we found the kids all snuggled up on the couch before the garbers headed out. 

July 3rd

Because we were going to be out of town on the fourth we decided to set off our fireworks on the third. Lindsey and Nicole made monster cookies and homemade ice cream for our little neighborhood show. 

July 2nd

The temperatures have been nearly 100 degrees this week so in order to beat the heat we headed up to Kamiak butte around 8 am. Everyone did great on the hike and loved the view from the top. 

July 1st

We are having so much fun with our cousins! Monday was spent playing with sidewalk chalk going to Ferdinand's for cheese and ice cream and checking out the bears. 

June 30th

Happy birthday judester!!! It was so fun to have the cousins here to celebrate your birthday. We had a fun day spending time with cousins, going to church, playing outside and them went to sweet mutiny for frozen yogurt cake pops and opening presents. Jude got  bay blades from the garbers and a camelback back pack, sky landers giants video game and a new bike with gears!!! 

June 29th

The day we had been waiting for has finally arrived! The Garbers got here and we hit the growing running! Water balloon fights, bike rides, and a trip to sunnyside park are just a few of the days fun activities. We ended the evening with Popsicles and watching some of America's got talent!