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Chelan County Fair

We went to the Chelan County Fair in Cashmere a few weeks ago.  I can't even remember where the older two kids were but somehow we ended up with just the younger two kids.

They enjoyed seeing all of the animals and we bought them a few tickets

to go on 4 rides each.  Cohen wanted a pony ride, but Chezney

was okay watching her brother from the sidelines.  

Smoke on the Water... Fire in the Sky

Several weeks ago, on September 8th, a thunderstorm caused many fires.  

At one point I heard about 80 fires started across eastern Washington.

And more came in the days to follow.  

The Wenatchee Valley filled with smoke and soon we

found our day to day normal being numbers.  Small talk

was about the air quality levels and we all became

versed in what the levels mean.  It was an eerie "normal"

as it lasted over a month.

Things are dying down now.  We've had THREE

whole days of fabulous air- and I will never again

underestimate the beauty of seeing the world from

a crisp- clean air- perspective.

Smallwoods

Not too long ago we decided to go hang out at Smallwoods for the day.  It seems, from the picture,

that this was a long time ago, as we were in summer clothes and everything was green.  In fact this was

maybe 3 weeks or 4 weeks ago. The season has changed now, 

making this photo seem even more aged.

It was a fun afternoon of petting and feeding animals, getting some peaches, and hanging out

on the fun grounds they have.  This duck pond is something we just discovered.

We had never seen it at smallwoods before, probably

because there is a small hike to get there.  It's not in view so 

you would never even have known it was there... but now we know.

And it was so pretty... there's a picnic table and I could have sat there all day.

Westport

Ethan was missing his daddy and Mike had to work so Ethan decided he would rather stay home than to go to Westport with mama and the rest of the family.  SO I took Chezney and Cohen with me, and Danissa went with Grandma and Grandpa a few days earlier, so she could go out on the charter fishing boats.  She caught LOTS of fish, and had a great time.  She got a little sick at first, as did Breanna and Evan, but soon they all had their sea legs and were off catching their quotas.

A Little Flash Back

Below is a picture of Danissas first day of Kinder-prep when she was 5 years old. 

 Ethan- then 2- was obviously pretty mad that he wasn't allowed to be in the picture.

SOOO in commemoration of the past, we decided to do another first day of school picture

of these two in the same spots as before.  My how they have grown... LOL

Hidden Lake

We set off for another hike- this time at the Bygone Byways- but soon realized that Bygone Byways is nothing more than about a quarter mile loop trail-... no hike at all.  

So after completing that, we drove as we debated where to go now.  We ended up at Hidden Lake Trailhead.  That was a gorgeous hike and is only about 1.5 miles in.  Its a great destination but once you get there, space is limited to just one side of the lake so if there are many people up there, it can get crowded.  The kids had a blast, though, and it was such a beautiful location... one I will definitely want to do again!