Henry and Dad (me) went to the Greenwood annual car show. There were over 300 cars of all vintages, and it was awesome. This VW "21 Window Bus" was my favorite. It was sooo cool! Look at all those windows. And a retractable roof, and the windshield lifts up. It had white leather interior with cream tweed accents. My oh my, would I like to have that.
We took the train over to eastern WA to visit Caleb's family. It was a long trip (5 hours vs. 2 3/4 by car), but really neat.The scenery was fantastic, and it was neat to be isolated from the highway giving you a feeling of being further out in the wild. A really fun way to travel. The kids enjoyed playing with their cousins and Henry is still talking about how much fun the slip and slide was. Lyn and I came back after 3 days, leaving the squirts with the grandparents for 4 more days. Unfortunately Lyn sprained her ankle 2 blocks from the train station, rendering her 4 days of freedom to mere recovery time.
Of course the kids are always reading, or painting, or playing outside. Our family rule is that there is NO TV for May-Aug. They are quite the creative little kids. And Fern is ever the mess.
This weekend we went to Jack Pass to go camping. I was so much fun. Of course it is always way too short, but it was relaxing to be out away from everybody and just enjoy each other and the beautiful scenery. Henry is becoming quite the experienced camper. I now trust him to build the fire pretty much by himself. (I split the kindling and start it though) We stayed up way too late eating marshmallows, and pop. 
We played in the river, made dams, flew our kite, and just generally absorbed some sun and fresh air.
As we went to pack up a summer storm blew in and we took down camp in record time. Henry is quite scared of thunder and wind. (think Timpanogos cave, and winter storm 2006) But I told him that this was an emergency and that I needed his help[ to get everything down as fast as we could so that we could leave. Despite his worst fear he bucked up and helped out greatly since Lyn was pretty gimped up. We really had a good time, and are hoping to head back up this coming weekend.
The weather is really hot right now, 88. And it is expected to get way hotter over the next 10 days. Wednesday is supposed to be 94. Humidity is around 80% so, WOW. We plan on heading to the river every afternoon to cool down. Unfortunately we have not air conditioning to our home gets quite warm. If anyone has a spare portable air conditioner that they are no longer using feel free to send it up to us! :)Work is going OK, it's kinda slow, and we are very worried about the winter coming up.
But right now we are having fun, and growing our garden and harvesting berries and what not for the winter. Our Chickens should start laying here in a couple of weeks, so that will be neat.
Other than that I can't think of much more to report on.
Take care everyone, and Happy Summer to you.
