WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO

Chris' cousin Sarah and her family (husband Brian, daughter Kaelen and Graysen, and NEW baby Logen....very beautiful family) were visiting from Washington. They drove to Butte, MT to visit Chris' grandparents and stopped in IF on their way back through Idaho. It was sooooo much fun! Between our kids (Cole and Carter) and Ryan (Chris' brother) kids we had 6 cousins together. The kids played and played and played. The older kids played with squirt guns and the slip-n-slide and Carter found the water table. He is almost walking...not quite...but close. I'm not ready for him to walk. At night I fold him up into a little bundle of baby and stand in his room forever holding him. He's very chubby and wonderful and this is my favorite time with him. He snoozes away and I just can't believe he's almost 1 year old. So walking....seems unreal....but I guess he must grow up...and keep up with Cole!

Back to the water fun....so here's Carter.....

Here is Kaelen, Graysen, Cole and Carter (notice Cole has goggles on...they are from Grandma Kathy...he wears them all the time when he's playing in the water....)
You may recognize Graysen from the Fred Meyer ads....she's a baby model....and she is cuter than cute.
The little red haired guy is Henry...Ryan and Melanie's son (Chris' brother and his significant other)
Carter and Henry and boats.
Slip-n-slide in action. Cole is a pro.
"That was sweet dude!"
He goes so fast...and little Graysen is watching....
Here is the slip-n-slide pro. Cute swim shorts! Thanks Aunt Anne!
Everyone took a break to enjoy some homemade lasagna from Grandma Kathy.

It was very delicious....like 2nd and 3rd helping delicious.....yummmmmy
All smiles at the kids table. (BTW....the kids table is AWESOME!....what a great idea!)

In addition to the water fun.....I haven't really had alot to report about so I'm sorry for the week of silence. We've been doing our normal day to day stuff and it just hasn't been too exciting. We have had some family gatherings so I thought I would share the pictures here.

My Dad and Tamara are moving to California in a few weeks so we'll see them later this week. I'll have more pictures after that gathering as well. I'm going to miss my Dad like crazy! But I'm very excited for him too.

Here is Cole driving Uncle Frank's red tractor. Cole was so excited! When they started driving however Cole was "all business" and was incredibly serious. I have a video of them as well I'll post it as well.

One more little story....about Frank and Jamie's Faye....

This is Faye's cat (one of them...they have baby kitties too) and he's a tom cat...usually tom cat's aren't so nice....however....this cat looooooves Faye. He let's Faye carry him around and they go on all sorts of adventures together.

After lunch I looked over and Faye was carrying the cat around by his arms and he looked perfectly happy. He must be flexible!
Sitting together....

Big HUGS....
And then......they wrestled and played....he looked perfectly happy. Jamie says that Faye feeds him vitamins too...Faye opens his mouth and will put the vitamin down his throat...and Mr. Kitty doesn't mind....that's a NICE kitty. It's sooo funny to watch Faye carry him around.

Apparently this cat can also slide down the slide in Faye's playhouse.

The McClure cats are quite diverse. Faye is quite the animal trainer....

Until next time....