Summer in Washington--the Eastern half

          This summer we planned to overlap our stay at Grandma and Grandpa Salisbury's house with cousins.  Scott and Annie and kids were there with us and we had a blast! 

Amber loved the stairs and all the fun cold cereal.

 Heidi was in heaven with Becca at her side

 Nicole and Kelli . . . obviously had fun together

Isaac and Derek and Ryan and David were non stop energy.

Daily dose of snow cones

Nicole and Kelli were great big sisters and

were a big help with Libbi and Amber

 Ladybug palooza

We rented a boat for a day and had some inner tube fun.  We had 4 adults and 9 kids on the boat.  I'm surprised we were able to get enough speed to tube!

 Nicole and Kelli

 Isaac and Derek

 Brett loved every minute but stayed close to Dad.  We did get him out on the tube once sitting on Curt's lap surprisingly.

 I love his expressions in these

 David and Ryan

 Derek and Isaac

 David and Ryan

Curt and I

 Isaac, David, Ryan

Many trips to the pool, but still not enough . . . :-)

 Columbia River park and Playground of Dreams

 Pelicans on the river

 Derek and Isaac

 Nicole and Kelli

Uncle Scott organizing hide and seek

Isaac and Derek

Curt always teases me for taking these but I can't help myself I think these shots are so sweet.

 David and Ryan

 Heidi and Becca

 Isaac and Derek

Ryan

 Heidi and Becca

And several trips to the splash park

Here she is being a good big sister again

 

Our good friends from college days--the Condons, who live in Spokane now drove to Basin City to see us and we got to play at the park with them for a while.  Awesome family.

Brett had just fallen off a teeter totter and broken his arm, for the second time.  Curt and Grandpa Peterson took him to the Dr. right after we took this picture. 

We got to see Grandpa and Grandma Peterson and Great Grandma Peterson too,but it was WAY TOO SHORT!!  Hopefully next year we can stay longer.