The park

Tonight we stopped by Grandma and Grandpa Clark's house on our way to Fayette. First we played...
















Then we ate a yummy dinner...

















And then we went to a cool park and played some more...





















Jake going down the slide head first and drooling as he went. (Darren's picture)





















Ethan on the "zipline" (Darren's pic)





















Kevin on the zipline (also Darren's pic)

















Jake going down the slide. He kind of looks older in this picture.
















Tracie and Jake





















Ethan on the car

And Ethan was so worn out at the end of the day he threw fits. Everyone laughed and took his picture. Poor Ethan.
















(Darren pic)















(Also Darren pic)

Penguins

The other day when I was at Wal-mart with Jake and Ethan there was a guy standing outside making balloon figures. Ethan begged for one so I asked him how much it cost. He said he just works on tips to cover his supplies. So we had him make us three penguins. He did an excellent job. He was a young guy just out there entertaining kids. Good talent!

Memorial Day

For Memorial Day we decided to go up to Warm River Springs and have a picnicwith our friends, Jon and Kristi. Then Darren and Jon would stay and fish and the rest of us would go home. It turned out it was a very windy day but that didn't stop us. Our first stop was to feed the fish. You had to have a good throwing arm to combat the wind and to get the bread out far enough. Here are a few shots:





















Ethan





















Darren





















Kevin
I tried to get a shot of Kristi, too, but it didn't work out very well.

After a pretty drive we got to our picnic spot.















Jon and Kristi
















The whole gang (except for me - I'm behind the camera:-)

Then it was time for a little fishing.
















Darren helping Ethan fish
















Everyone watching Kevin's close calls with fish biting but not hooking (or whatever the proper terminology is - I'm sure that wasn't correct)
















The boys admiring Darren's small fish he caught.





















While the others were fishing, Jake played in a puddle.















And the highlight of the trip for the boys was spotting a frog and talking Darren in to catching it. Back to his boyhood days of catching frogs.

Disney program

The second graders at Kevin's school put on a Disney program. They sang a bunch of songs from various Disney shows and played their recorders. The best was when just the boys sang a song from Mulan. It was pretty funny with all the actions. I guess you had to be there. (Darren took this picture.)

A New Post

Here are some pictures from the last month of our lives:

Darren will take bets at times. Last night was one of them. We went out to eat with Jon and Kristi and Darren had prime rib (we had gift cards to spend). Jon said he would give him a dollar if Darren would eat the big piece of fat. Darren didn't go for that so Jon changed it and said he would pay him a dollar if he kept the fat in his mouth for thirty seconds. So this is a picture of him doing just that. In fact, I think he kept it in longer so I could take the picture.































Kevin in his Yankee uniform. He started coach pitch baseball a couple of weeks ago. The last game they played the Mariners and the Mariners creamed them. (That's for all you Seattle fans).














As Sam said, stitches are blog worthy. The above is my attempt to take a picture of Jake's stitches right above his eyebrow. But you can't see it very well. He tripped and fell against the entertainment center. Out of three boys, this is our first stitches.














Kevin playing baseball. I'm a nerd and was trying to hurry with this update. I am at Tracie's house, picking up my kids from their sleepover, and they are bugging me to be done so we can go to a petstore (Tracie's idea, not mine -- we're not getting a pet). So I forgot to turn this picture around.














Kevin hitting the ball (By the way Darren took the baseball pictures)
















Sam rolling down a hill at a park in Seattle. Carrie got the top of the hill shots and I got the bottom of the hill shots.















Sam done rolling down the hill.















Darren rolling down the hill. This was another of those bets he took up. Carrie offered him a dollar if he would do it. She also gave Sam a dollar and Darren laughed and said that wasn't any benefit to Sam because Sam's dollars were the same as Carrie's dollars. Both Carrie and Sam laughed at that and said that was not true.















Darren done rolling down the hill.















Darren on the car ride home from Seattle.















All of us eating at Claim Jumpers.















Us at the troll under a bridge in Seattle. I've heard a lot about it but never seen it.
And below is Darren and Dexter.