...And the rest of them

Here are the last of my "catch-up" pictures.

Babies :)

I have had some fun taking pictures of the babies in my life the last week or so...

(*some of these pictures were taken by my sisters, but most by me)
my niece & nephew and my cousins. They are so cute!!

Avery Elyse

Brooklyn Nicole

Elyssa Kaye

Tayden Jayce

The Big Boys

Jonas & Isaak are getting so big! They don't let us take their pictures as much anymore :(

They are both so smart and active and fun! I love to spend time with them! Jonas starts kindergarten next week, and Isaak is in his second year of preschool!

Audrey's Sweet 16

me & audrey the day she was born. :) August 28, 1991

I can't believe she's almost 16!! (a few more days until her real birthday)

We had a surprise party for her last weekend, and I think she really was surprised! :)

Family

They're goofy, but I love 'em! :)

Wow, if you made it to here, I am impressed! :) That was a LOT of pictures.... and it was only a handful of the ones I've taken. I am going to really try to be better about posting more often - to avoid having to do everything at once in the future!! Hope you all have a great weekend! We are taking a (business) road trip to Nevada & Arizona this weekend - about 27 hours of driving in 3 days, so keep us in your prayers! Hopefully I will have some good pictures to post next week.

More from the summer....

Here's the second of three of my "catch-up" photos. There are so many pictures I want to post from this summer, so we'll see how well blogger is working today!...

Camping

Our annual church camping trip was August 10-12 at Lake Cascade. Even though there are a lot of wildfires in Idaho right now, and we could see some burning across the lake, the skies were blue and clear almost the entire weekend, and the weather was gorgeous! It was a very relaxing and fun weekend, with lots of fishing, boating, games & food. I am very sad that we have only been camping once this summer, and I don't intend to let that happen again next summer! We may try to get in one more weekend in September, but we'll see... Oh, and we had to take a back road home because of a fire near the highway. The road we took was all dirt, and went through the mountains. It was really pretty, and I was hoping we'd see some wildlife, but we only saw cows in the road. Unless you're from the west somewhere, you probably don't know what "Open Range" laws are! :)

Fundraiser

We did a yard sale & car wash fundraiser last weekend to raise money for our Chile mission trip, and it went really well! We got a ton of donations from people, so we had a lot of stuff, and we were really busy most of the day... even as we were cleaning up at 3 p.m. We started at 7 a.m., which meant we were there at 5, so it was a long day, but definitely worth it!! The sky was beautiful that morning!