Our Trip to Washington

The first part of our summer was kind of slow and nice.  The second half was hectic, but fun!  Me and the kids were gone from mid-July to the day before school started on different little trips, with only coming home for at most 3 days in between each one, sometimes just 1/2 a day.  Laundry is about all I did when I was home, just to transition to the next adventure.

One of the things that the kids and I did was drive to St. George, stayed there a day and went and explored Pine Valley, then we went on to Las Vegas and flew up to the tri-cities area of Washington (Richland) to visit my mom.  We had a good vacation up there, exploring her town and letting her and Gary take us places and spoil the kids.

One of their favorite things to do each day was to take the doggies for a walk to the park and take them down the slide with them.  It was pure torture for the dogs I think!

We spent some time at Art-In-The-Park one day doing hula-hooping, face-painting, eating popcorn and ice-cream cones, and playing in the Columbia River.

Another day, Gary and my mom treated us to a day on the Columbia River to go boating.  Nothing beat the 100 degree weather better than a ride out on the float tube.

I kept wanting to call the river a lake.  It is odd to be boating on such a huge river, especially when you can't see it flowing one direction or the other.

Just look at that face!

Collin and I getting ready to cruise on the river!

Other highlights were visiting the amazing trampoline park there, introducing my mom and Gary to the self-serve fro-yo shop, scooter riding and mini-golfing at the house, and picking more than 100 tomatoes from their plants.  Thanks for the great time!

Grandma with Collin and Mackenzie