Day Trip 2

Sunday, we went up to Tumwater Campground with Grandpa Dennis and Grandma Cheri, and got a spot to hang out just for the day.  We still had a fire and grilled, and did all the things we normally would... just didn't sleep or pitch a tent.  It was so fun.  The runoff from the creek was really high so we got our own personal overflow creek right through our campsite, which the kids loved.  We decided this spot is a definite "MUST RETURN" spot for later on this summer... and actually STAY.  It was just so much fun!

Day Trip

We went to visit our friends that went camping up Teanaway Creek a couple days ago.  It was a fun neat little campsite that was tucked away and very rustic.  Their was a surprise thunderstorm and then a complete downpour that we weren't expecting and we ended up ducking for cover soon after arriving, but it was all good fun- mostly because we weren't  actually staying the night.  We all headed into Cle Elum for dinner to get some refuge from the rain and made a good time of it- watching the rain and listening to the thunder!

Thomas

The cat came back... 

the very next day... 

the cat came back...

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My kitty Thomas was put out of his ancient kitty misery today.

He lived to be 15 years old... which has to be 110 in cat years.

And if you judge it by the age all my other cats lived,

it's more likely to be 527 cat years.

If I let myself- I can get emotional about a silly

cat dying that I haven't even lived with for 11 years.

BUT he was still my cat. 

He was dumb.  He drooled.

He was literally retarded.  

But he loved attention and was a

good cat- all the same... so I just

have to post a little comment and picture

to remember him by.

RIP Thomas...

4th With Friends

We spent the Fourth with the Riggs family- some of our closest friends.  We went to their friends/semi-neighbors house, the Cobbs, and several other families came as well.  Ephrata farmers know how to do fireworks!  Food was great, fireworks were awesome, and kids were overly entertained!  My favorite part was watching all of these loving responsible daddies become immature pyromaniacs out in the corn field.  We could hear them all laughing hysterically while lighting off these huge fireworks in less-than ideally-safe ways.  They were definitely having a blast!