Saturday, August 20, 2011

Summer at Bowstring

Ellaina, Maddie and Ella flew in from Oregon last week, so we got to spend some time with them up at Grandma and Grandma Gordon's house at Bowstring Lake. Here's Maddie hanging out with Ozzie.


Grandpa asked Erin to give him a bowl of kettle corn, but here's what he got ... a measuring cup of kettle corn.




Ella is really enjoying her popsicle! Sarah seems sleepy.








Noah's friend Madi joined us for the weekend, and she got up on water skis for the first time!




Madi and Sarah tubing behind Grandma and Grandpa's boat, the Ella Bee.

Summer at Bowstring II

Noah turned 15 years old while we were at the lake. Here's proud mommy with Noah and the birthday burger ... er, CAKE that he picked out. It was yummy!




Noah and Madi.












Here's the whole gang except for Rich (taking the picture), Caleb (sleeping or something) and Lucas (visiting his dad).




Madi took this photo. Happy birthday, Noah!










Wow, the cake-cutter lady and the ice-cream scooper dude seem to be taking their work VERY seriously!

Summer at Bowstring III

Ellaina and the girls watch our favorite "talking dog" video for about the 27th time. "The maple kind, yah?"






Grandma, Sarah and Maddie posing with the nine northern pike Ella caught with her grandparents. Ella didn't make it into this photo because the fish were still alive and flopping around.


The cousins spent HOURS making bead necklaces and bracelets. Fun!

Bikers' BBQ

We invited several of Rich's bicycling friends over to our house for a barbeque a few weeks ago. Here's who made it!


Cyndie brought a tray of wonderful cupcakes ... thanks, Cyndie!