Take two

Well here we go for part two. There is going to be a lot more pics in this post because I did not take them all. I downloaded pics from my brothers and sisters camera so I have a few....hundred.

The day my in-laws and wife's sister's family left, my brother and his family arrived. We thought it might be good to go around Tubbs hill, yet again. You will see a lot of redundancy with the events we chose, but why mess with what works.
Here are Delaney and Joey. These two kids pose for pictures without having to be asked. They are seemingly perfect angels and right before we left for the hike Joel asked them if they knew the number one rule of hiking. Being the great parent I am, I said it was staying away from the edge and staying close to an adult. I of course was wrong!?!? Delaney informed me that the number one rule of hiking is "not complaining that my knees hurt or my legs are tired". Can it get any cuter than that. True to the number one rule ...neither of them complained once.

Kids love throwing rocks, and so do adults.

Yet another pose that they just did without really having to be asked.

Then Grandma and Grandpa showed up and they started to play with the paddle boats my dad had made. We eventually moved it to the inflatable pool...instead of in the fish barrel.

Delaney loved to chase the chickens and we chased them so much that I asked if she would rather just go in the coop. She will try anything, and I mean anything, so in she went. This ended up being tons of fun for her and was the first thing she always asked to do about 5 seconds after saying good morning...every morning. Usually I made her wait until she was out of her PJ's before putting her in there.

Here she caught one. We did have fun asking her to catch them and then see how far she could throw them. That is hours of fun and she loved it. Very brave girl.

My brother is an avid fly fisherman and ties a lot of flies. Here is one he tied when he was here.

And this is where he got the material. You guessed it, we snagged a couple of feathers from this guy and tied up some flies.

Here is evidence that my sister-in-law can run...who would have thought?

We also got a chance to go up to Mt. Spokane. This was the first day of the season that you could drive to the top, so needless to say it was cool up there. My guests were freezing at those temps as they came from 95 degree weather.

Here we are as a family on the top.

My dad and nephew

That night my parents brought us to a cowboy supper show. Brenda and I did it last year with them and it was cool, but the kids loved it even more and we all had such a good time. Thanks mom and dad.

The kids loved the cowboys and cowgirls.

Sunday we went to Manito Park to view the flowers and then to Downtown Spokane.

The rose garden was in bloom and the smell up there was amazing.

Here is Brenda near a few of the bushes.

Here is my brothers family

Again...we went on the carousel.

Then we went on the gondola over the Spokane falls. That was fun, but the cabins of the gondola were fairly hot and I had to take my shirt off. I also had to rock the cabin once or twice

As I said....hot. I mean it had to be 90 in there. In Spokane the weather this year is cool and as I write this wile heat grips 90 percent of the country...Spokane is 75-80 and sunny.

and of course we went on the Radio Flyer wagon for a slide down the handle.

Then of course we went in the fountain again.

Monday we went to the beach in Coeur d'Alene. My dad was nice enough to rent a sailboat and although the wind was very light all day, we all had a great time out on it. The kids thought it was cool and I always like to screw around on boats.

Here we are heading out....notice the flat water. The oar was used more than we wanted it to be.

Then the next day I was able to round up 5 bikes and two kid trailers and off we went to the "route of the Hiawatha". This is a old railroad grade converted to bike trail. It runs like 15 miles all downhill, over 7 bridges, and through 10 tunnels. At the beginning of the route you go through a 2 mile tunnel which crosses the MT ID boarder underground.

Here is one of the views from the trail.

Here is my sister and sister-in-law on the tandem bike.

And two kids in the carrier. James was alone in the other and besides having dirt all over his face....he was fine.

Here we all next to the waterfall.

And the whole family....after 3 takes.

Check out those bridges, they are amazing.

And Brenda and I outside of one of the tunnels.

We loved hanging out in the backyard and are really liking the house this summer. Here was a rainbow which disappeared and reappeared 3 times this night.

Wednesday, Joel and I went fishing in ID. We had a great time and caught a lot fish. Mine were not that big, but we had a great time.

Here is the big dog of the trip.

Joey loved hanging out with the baby.

Well all said and done we had 18 guests over 2 weeks and a great summer. With the weather warming up a bit it really only feels like the beginning of summer....which I guess is the case up here.

Here is my niece chasing the chickens...this is her first time in the coop and she got a bit more aggressive after getting to know them.

I some good pics already for the next post and another video that cannot be missed....stay tuned.