TPing the Ingersol's :)

So, my friend Denise, had never been TPing before, and was so excited to go. So, we formed a team and TPed the pastor of our church and his family/friends while they were camping. We had a great time!

Denise and I :) TPing friends.

Nice look Denise

I look a little crazy here! Maybe I was a little too excited about toilet papering.

Deinse, trying to make a scary face with the flashlight.

I'm rearin' and ready.

Joel, trying to stay awake.

Let's hit it!

Anna and Matt

The 4th and the Great Grandparents!

The 4th of July. What a wonderful day to finally have John home! We ventured out to see the grandparents in Spokane. John's grandparents are almost all in there 90's and all look pretty terrific to me! It was wonderful to visit with them and to show off little Zach. We then went to Riverfrount park to see the fireworks and then stayed the night at John's parent's place. It was a fun-filled weekend! Chloe, Grandpa Bob and Zach.

Grandma Genie and Zach. While we were at Riverfrount Park, we luckily ran into family! Aunt Joyce, Uncle Donnie and my cousins, Chad, Sheila and Baby Caleb. Can't be that!

The 2 pics above we are waiting for the fireworks. Funny enough we, and hundreds of others, were waiting in the wrong spot. Everyone got up and ran for the next hill over when the fireworks started!

John and kids getting ready to ride the Carosel!

Grandma Jean and Zach :)

Great Grandpa Bob...the kids were fascinated by his teeth that would come out!!

Great Grandpa Dick with Chloe Great Grandma Phyllis

The new great grandbaby

Moving and frineds

Well, after 2 yrs....it has arrived. "It" being everything we left in HI. When I look back we really only had 3 weeks to store, ship or sale everything we owned when we found out John was being deployed, and we sold, sold, sold! I'm extreemly unsentimental, so I became a full-time craigslister! But there were some photo albums, and a few things that no one came to buy, that we stored in a 6x7x8 storage container in HI.
Untill now, this seemed like such a small amount of stuff....I surely coudln't have kept all this crap the movers just dropped off.....what will I do with it now?? Can anyone say yardsale?!
I might be slightly overwhelmed by the stuff, but the kids are feeling like it's Christmas in July and are loving unwrapping some old things...even a few toys!

Oh, it's always fun when Racheal comes to town, and her, Jeremy and their kids came a week or so ago. It was so much fun hanging out with them and the Guads. We took their boat out on the Snake and had pizza. Wish we got to do it so much more often!

Cool Desert Nights

Cool Desert Night's is one of Richland's funnest weekends! This year John was home so we had a parrrtyyy! BBQ and then one house down to watch the Cool Desert Nights car parade. I'm not sure how many vintage cars there were this yr. Last yr there were 800. It was a blast. We'll have to make this an annual thing!
Heather and Cassidy

Nicole and Steph, watchin' the cool cars

Two of my boys :)

Friends

Well, this week has been increadibly social! 2 parties at our house, 2 dinners at friend's houses, 2 friends in town that I don't get to see much that we got together with, a baby shower, church, BUNCO, and some friends came and stayed the night! We say we are blessed to have so many awesome friends, although John might start to want some say in next month's social calander :)

Here are pics of Lilly and Berg, when my friend Mo came to visit. Hopefully I'll also get some pics of our "cousin party", when I finally get them off mom's camara.

Father's Day

We had such a great Father's Day this year, and since John had been in Iraq for the past two Father's Days, we deserved a good one! The kids and I woke John with breakfast in bed and the Sunday New York Times. Of course, there's no way you'ld eat breakfast in bed with these kids bouncing all over you, so we moved to the table....it's teh thought that counts..right? We then made it to church, came home and watched most of Mysterious Island....one of John's childhood faves. It was a terrific day for a terrific dad!

Big Brother Luke

Luke and Chloe are real "baby kids". They have always loved babies and been very good around them, so of course, they LOVE little Zach...and Zach seems to love them. He gives them lots of smiles and sometimes talks to them, which they are increadibly excited about!