Intruder....

I found this intruder in my bed the other day....he woke me up with his feet in my back. Good thing he is cute or I would have screamed and called the police.

3 Boys at 3 Rivers...

After the fair, we finally got a chance to break away and spend some time up at Three Rivers. Jeremiah's cousin Chris and his family were able to go with us, as well as Grandma and Grandpa and Jeremiah's other cousin Vanessa and her fiance' David. Oh and Tucker got in on the fun too.

We spent alot of time on the Lake and the weather was pretty nice the whole time we were there!
Swimming while we waiting for Jeremiah and Grandpa to come back with the pontoon boat that they rented for a few days...
This was SO much fun! We used this boat to let the kiddos play on and around and used Grandpa and Grandma's boat to ski and tube with. We jumped on and off of it all day...swim and then lay on the back to dry out! Yah! These couches were SUPER comfy for us mommas and Grandma!

Captain Travis and his trusty mate, Tucker.

Floatable love...

Justin rode this dirtbike ALOT.
Coming in for a landing...


And, thanks to Grandma Rita, we have documentation of the beautiful sunsets in Central Oregon...a very relaxing way to end the day....

The Not So Fair Fair...

Our Oregon weather seemed to completely go psycho this year during the Yamhill County Fair. Why? I don't know. But I will tell you this: IT WAS HORRIBLE. Trying to survive 105+ weather inside our house with AC would have been hard enough, but we had to survive it down at the fairgrounds, trying to keep our animals and kids alive! We were armed with squirt bottles and hoses, alternately squirting ourselves and them. A few kiddos lost chickens, which was bad, but we were lucky not to, and our bunnies did OK and rode out the hot days cuddled up next to frozen water bottles. All in all, Jared did great this year. He was disappointed in a Red ribbon for his market fryers, but ended up getting a decent price at the auction. Other than that, he got all blues...and came home with three trophies! One for his Grand Champion Pigeon hen, one for Grand Champion in confirmation for his new rabbit Bernice, and one for Grand Champion in rabbit judging! Awesome! He also got some plaques for his woodworking project as well.

That great Horton smirk!

Bernice the GREAT!

Accepting his Woodworking award.

Mr. Justin had a fun time as well...he made a great poster about dogs, baked some cookies and participated in the Animal Show-n-Tell with my cousin Alex's dog Dixie. That was an experience. As we are entering the building with the dog, Jeremiah reminds me that Dixie is basically a trained bird dog, and I am taking her into a group filled with small children and their pets...namely a few chickens, parakeets, bunnies etc.....YIKES. Needless to say, we stayed in the back, and I asked the leader if we could go last, and if she could make sure that the kids put their "eatables" away! I made Jeremiah walk up there with Dixie because I knew if she saw something and took off, she would take Justin right along with her! It all went well, but boy did her ears perk up!
It's a little hard to see Dixie, but she is the black thing that Julia is holding onto! When asked what Dixie ate, Justin took the microphone and simply stated "birds." Nice son. Nice. As a last hurrah, she asked him if there was anything else he wanted to tell them about Dixie, he looked really serious and said "Yeah, she's a John Deere fan." HILARIOUS. Totally Justin. Leave it to this kid to get a laugh from the crowd without even cracking a smile!

So now we pack up a few things to send off to the State Fair of Jareds. Two of his display boards and his cookies, as well as his woodworking project will go over. Hopefully he will score some more awards!

YIKES! A month already?

Wow! I cannot believe it has been a month since I posted last...we have been slightly busy. We literally have not slowed down one bit since school got out, and here it is time for it to start again already. That's stinky.
I will post pictures of fair and our vacation as soon as I can catch a break...We barely survived 100+ degree weather during fair week! But, we had a relaxing time over at Three Rivers this last week.
Until then, here's a moment etched in my memory from this morning...

Travis lost another tooth yesterday morning so now he looks like a little Jack-O-Lantern! He very carefully put it in a little box of mine last night....and at approximately 6 am this morning...showed up on my side of the bed grinning from ear to ear with a dollar bill in his hand. So cute. He was barely awake. And even cuter was the site of him wrapping his little arms around Jeremiah's neck with a death grip on that dollar bill, heading back to bed. Definite deposit in my "I Love My Little Guys" tank.