Labor Day at Denny Creek

The nice weather has graced our presence for the last few weeks and it didn't disappoint over the past holiday weekend. On Labor Day we decided to head to the mountains with some friends to hike up to the Denny Creek water slide area. It is a fairly easy 1.5 mile (one way) hike up to the rocks where they have a waterfall and a couple of very small water slides and pools (for the kiddos) and a nice big water slide that a few of the adults and older kids rode. I opted out as I didn't want a bruise on my back side.

Enjoy....

Guess Who...

got his first tooth today?

It his bottom left front one--can you decipher that? This little turkey also thinks he wants to crawl soon and keeps trying to stick his little toosh in the air. Boo!

Our Kindergartner

Lizzy started Kindergarten today. She was upset that the bus was late becasue she was so excited. When the bus came, she got on and James was MAD he couldn't go to. She came home saying kindergarten is the best ever and was not happy when I told her she only gets to go 2 more days this week. THe highlights were recess, reading a story in class and making some new friends.

When your paths cross...

July 5th we started our drive home to WA. We were super excited to stop in Bosie on the way to see our friends the Jensens who were home from Taiwan for the summer to visit family. Lizzy was super excited to see her bff Aly and is still talking about her 2 months later. We had lunch and then swam for a couple hours. We didn't take a ton of pictures, but had a great time catching up with old friends. I love, love, love the perma smile on Liz's face that she has in all the pictures.

I had to include this pic of James at the rest stop near Yakima cause it is such a James look! Love that kid!

4th of July

The 4th of July was pretty low-key this year. We left Downata Hot Springs in the later afternoon to head to Jerome, where my brother Kevin lives. I don't even remember what we had for dinner that night. I just remember we headed to this office park to sit and wait for the fireworks with my parents and Kevin and his family. The kids had fun playing with their cousins and enjoyed the show. We enjoyed the beautiful sunset too. Afterwards, we went back tot he house to do sparklers. Lizzy was too scared of them to even try them out and watched from the window inside. The next day though she was really sad to have missed out and was happy that Aunt Alayna had some spares she could take home to do later on.

Alayna and Kev

Hadley and James are quite the pair....watch out!

Lloyd Bleazard Family Reunion

Over the 4th of July, my immediate family got together for a reunion at Down-At-A Hot Springs in Idaho. We had so much fun visiting, swimming, 4-wheeling and playing games.It went by way to fast so it was a good thing we were having another Bleazard reunion the first week of August. My kids do not get to see their cousins that often and LOVE it!

Living, in Seattle, we have the longest drive, but to my kids delight, we stopped at a rest stop that had some dinosaurs and another one to just run around where Lizzy let her hair fly.

We got to the Hot Springs and hit the pool and water slides. Once the kids went down the big one, they couldn't stop. When they were not in the pool, James wanted to be on the 4 four wheeler. (I think he called them that as we had 4 quads to ride.) For some reason we didn't take hardly any photos on the 4 wheelers. At night, we put the kids to bed and played games. It was heaven catching up with everyone and just spending time together. Good thing another reunion is coming in Aug cause we miss everyone!

 The whole Family...

 My Immediate Family all grown up!

 Us and our better halves...

Check out the slide show for more photos.

Coming Soon...

I realize that I have pretty much abandoned my blog over the past 6 weeks or more. I have to say it is because we have been having a great time enjoying our summer with friends and family. I am planning on updating during the next week or two. In the meantime, enjoy this picture of a Happy Rapunzel...