Jack's new bed

Jack has always been a peculiar sleeper and once again he didn't fail to disapoint. I went in to tuck him in and at first glance thought he was missing......... until I looked up on the bookshelf.

More Lake Pend O'reille

Click on the picture of us at the top of Schweitzer Mountain to see the rest of the pictures from the trip. The lift ride to the top was the highlight for the kids, but not for our friend Lauren who dropped his camera from the lift on the way down :-(.

Lake Pend O'reille Treehouse

We did a family vacation to our friend's house on Lake Pend O'Reille (Sanpointe, ID). The weather was perfect and the accomodations were even better. They just bought the property next door to them and 'merged' the two lots. They inherited the most amazing tree house by buying the lot next door. Check this out, Brit and I stayed in it for a night while Becky took the kids :-).

I did a screen grab of an online book that the treehouse was featured in, the pictures don't do it justice but lets just say it was amazing.

Charlie and Chocolates

Britney got some chocoloates from a friend for her birthday and this is what we found the next day. He didn't care for the ones with nuts, good boy Charlie.

Hike to Twin Falls

I'm not sure if it is the fact that I have gotten older and have learned to appreciate nature more, or if our kids need to learn that there is more to life than the Disney Channel, but I love family hikes.

We did this hike (Twin Falls) with my Brother about a year ago and went again in August on a warm day. Charlie loved the river and the kids all were champion hikers.

The Yard

After spending nearly a year working on our back yard we reached a nearly completed status! We put in the beds, planted a garden, built a deck, etc. etc. It was WAAY more work than I had intended but we are really happy with how it turned out.

I used a PVC decking material that should be pretty low maintenance. No slivers for the kiddies!