McCall

Our fabulous week in McCall started with a rocky climb with the Wilfords.

We enjoyed a boat ride into town for milk shakes.

Luke and Andrew

And the kids did a lot of tubing; I mean a LOT of tubing.  We actually finished off this tube by the end of the week, but luckily Grandpa already had a new one ready at the condo. 

Mack's attempts at skiing paid off and he got up for a few brief moments.  Man, he was cold after wards.  (Grandpa took him out over Labor Day and he stayed up for quite a while)

Mack with Abby on the left and Lily's first try on the right.

Andrew and Emmy - I loved how Emmy's hair just billowed out behind her while she rode.  I tried to capture it but never quite succeeded.

The Wilfords only stayed three days with us so we were happy to welcome Natali and Greg after work on Thursday.  We then enjoyed a long hot hike where we all wished we had more water, some tennis matches, ice cream alley, more tubing, swimming, and sand time.

No trip would be complete without buring Lily in the sand.

Love this place.

Summer Moments

Emily's taken piano from our neighbor Emma for 2 years.  They had a little recital this summer before Emma headed off to college.

Emmy's beloved Primary Teachers brought us corn from their garden.  She loves them so much that she was willing to try the corn and huge surprise --she liked it enough to eat several bites.

Andrew canvassed the neighborhood this summer trying to get pet sitting jobs.  He only got one customer but all that effort was worth the one job.  He got to feed her farm animals for a week.  He fed goats, pigs, turkeys, chickens, rabbits, cats, and guinea pigs twice a day.  He collected eggs and made sure everyone had water.  It was a lot of work but he loved it.  Especially when he got $100 when it was all done.  

Honestly though, the best part was that one of the guinea pigs had four babies two days before the family went out of town so we took the mom and babies to our house to keep them out of the heat.  The kids loved holding and playing with them.  We also had the adventure of finding another baby pig when feeding the other guinea pigs at the farm.  It was quite an adventure figuring out which pig was the mom and bringing she and the baby back to our house for safe keeping.  When the family got home they let Andrew keep two of the babies (after being weened of course).  They even gave him a cage.  He couldn't get his favorite one because it was the only female in the lot but he loves S'mores, and Spots and takes pretty good care of them.  I just have to buy a lot more veggies because they seem to disappear in spite of all the guinea pig food I buy.