1st let me say expect a lot of photos. Anytime I spend a few days with the grandkids the shutter on my camera just seems to fly!!
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| Peyton and his Grandpa |
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| Lake view from inside the cabin |
We finally made a trip to our annual summer vacation spot. "Tum Tum" on Long Lake.... Spokane river. We had hoped to get the whole family there. But, it just never worked out. Doug and I took a look at our calendar and if we were going to make a trip to Spokane before school started it was now or never.
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| Jesse and Tressa after a big swim |
When Tressa heard we were going she and Jesse cleared there schedule and came along. The 2nd night there Erica and Nate showed up.
Our main motivation for the trip was that I hadn't seen Doug's parents in a long time and a good friend's mom has been very sick and I wanted to come and offer my love and support to her at this time.
So having some of the kids and grandkids there was a HUGE bonus and we had a great time.
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| Jesse and Nate having a deep and meaningful talk? NO, I don't think so! |
We ate out a couple times. Spokane has the best restaurants. If we had more time we would have hit up a few more places. The weather was good- mid-80's & the water was warm .
The little ones were not fans of the lake water. Either to big or too cold not sure which. Parker came the closest to enjoying the water.
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| Grandpa with Parker and Brady. Parker was enjoying this more than Brady. |
On the 2nd day we set-up some smaller beach pools. The kiddies seemed happier with these.
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| Erica and Madison on the boat |
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| Peyton & Madison before their 1st and only boat ride! |
We also got the boat out and did a little tubing. Nate and Jesse got a pretty wild ride and were catching some serious air.
That night we went to Shakey's Pizza. One of Doug's favorite pizza places back in the day, They had all closed down a number of years ago. We wanted to check the new one out and see it it was like the original. We were not disappointed. Very good Pizza ( did you get that Jolene?)
On the way in Tressa was holding Madison's hand, Peyton then went and grabbed Madisons other hand, it was so cute. I wish we had a picture.
Sat. was Jesse's 25th Birthday. Lots of family came out to say hi and wish Jesse a happy birthday.
The kids played down on the beach and in the small pools.
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| The Sand Box!! |
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| Parker-doesn't want to wait for his bathing suit! |
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| Brady |
Parker even did alittle skinny dipping with his grandpa. Madison liked the sand boxes but, didn't really ever get to excited about the water.
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| Madison |
Brady got to were he loved to be dunked. This really tired his mom out. The minute his little feet touched the cement wall, he ran right off again and into the water. Tressa would pull him up, and off he'd go again. Peyton seemed to like the feet dunking thing too.
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| Jesse taking over after Tressa got tried. |
Their Cuz Cameron was a crazy wall jumping man, and Jesse thought he'd try alittle pole vaulting with a huge stick.
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| The Plant |
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| Where Peyton Spent alot of his time. |
The morning had begun with some going "garage selling ". Erica and Nate were up early and out exploring. guess there was lots of good stuff. Nate really wished he had his truck. He did find some shorts and shirts for .25 ea. He didn't bother to wash them. He just proudly put his great finds on and wore them all day!!
Doug's brother in-law Steve had a good day too. He scored a nice canoe. There hasn't been a working one at Tum Tum for a long time. Doug and Peyton got to go with Doug's dad on it first voyage all the way across the lake.
We also had 5 generations there with Doug"s grandma, mom, him and the girls and kids. So we grabbed some photos. Doug's grandma P is 100 yrs old! going on 101 in Sept.
