In Suuuuuummer

Summer, eh?

Rennes face says it all…

is she saying her summer was an over-the-top cheesy smile?

YES! Our summer was H E A V E N. 

I cannot get over how much fun we had. 

Yup. No caption required, but since I like to blah blah on here, you know i'll give one anyway...

ECHO LAKE is where we (the girls and I and sometimes Tim) basically lived for most of the summer. Jokes, I was only there for 25 days over 2 months. There we did amazing things like:

TUBE

WAKE (belly) SURF

i have no pics of the actually surfing? which is bizarre because it's our favourite thing and we did it probably a dozen times, but I'm just lame and forget to take pictures

WATER SKI

I have probably 30 pics of Renne "skiing". Our neighbours at the lake, the Harkers, are amazing at getting children of literally any age to try water skiing, and the lent us this trainer whenever we wanted. Renne LOVED it and asked me to ski almost every day. The first time I thought she would get scared, but I guess our over-excessive cheering may have kept the fear at bay. See what I did there? If I'm being honest, I was ridiculously proud of her and love that she loves the water so much.

PLAY

 
SWIM

SOAK UP SOME RAYS

Sundays are my favourite! I love getting my family all pretty and enjoying some serious quality time together at CHURCH. Plus Renne literally BEGS me for nursery, and I'm not sure why people wouldn't love going to church just so their kids can be entertained for 2 hours? Reason enough, right there!! Plus Bigfork ward is awesome, and the spirit there is really special. Sidenote: isn't my hubby handsome? 

ENJOYING VIEWS LIKE ^^^

During the girls nap, I would just lounge outside, sometimes read, but sometimes just do nothing and it was so relaxing. I just had to keep coming back for more…

So, we did. Renne just hated being at home in comparison, and I'm pretty good about doing the whole spray park, pool, play dates, beach trips thing, but she would bring me her swimsuit literally the next morning and say "Mom, I need to go to the cabin" and start packing her bag. So we would stay for a few days and then away we would go…

Ok, I just must say (only once this time, don't worry) that I am so smitten and in love with these two munchkins

Tim has been growing out his bangs (kidding). Don't mind us, we haven't showered for days in this pic

 ok fine, we did a few other things besides the lake…

We also went to our amazing
WHIDDEN FAMILY REUNION

Games games games

sports sports sports

Tim was in heaven

Tim kicked the ground super hard on the first day and we thought he broke his toe, but then it miraculously stopped hurting one day. But being Tim, he didn't let it stop him. Not at all actually. I started nagging him to stop and rest, because he would keep playing and literally not be able to walk afterwards, but that's why i love this guy so dang much.

Chinook lake, you're alright. 

hiking

cousins cousins COUSINS!

My heart hurt having to tell Renne that it would be while before we saw her cousins. "Mom, I go see my cousins? Tomorrow? After? Later? After my nap, right Mom?" 

WHY DO WE LIVE SO FAR APART?

Yes, my bro and sis in law get to LIVE HERE. 

(insert a serious shout out and thank you to Jared and Julie for hosting such an amazing reunion)

And when we were home, we did awesome things like:

walk to church together

braid our hair?

I actually have been a little obsessed with doing Renne's hair lately, and the best part is, she lets me!

So, how do we feel about next summer?

Again, Renne's face SAYS IT ALL