A Brother and his Sister

The past few days have been very busy for us. Ever since we got the keys on Friday, we've been at the house from morning 'til night working. We've finished painting and tearing up the carpet and linoleum. Now all that's left is getting rid of the glue that's left behind, then sanding and finishing the floors. I know it is still quite a bit of work, but we can finally see the end of the tunnel! I've been just walking around the house dreaming of what is going to happen to our family there. I'm so excited to share some photos from our renovation. Hopefully I'll get some time next week, doubtful, but we'll see.
Also, these photos are from when Charlie was "holding" Pip. It was adorable. Later that week, I walked in to find him attempting to pick her up and put her on the couch, which was kind of adorable, but also could have ended very wrong.

Park

These photos were from a few weeks ago when we went on a park dinner date. Pip still loves the swing and Charlie still loves his pizza. On this particular night something quite different happened though. Charlie was willing to go home with strangers. It's really not as serious as that, there ended up being two older girls there playing and he was "playing" with them. Really he was just talking to them and trying to copy what they were doing while they kindly ignored him. He loved it. When it finally came time for the girls to go, Charlie was yelling at them to "wait for me!" when they were running to their car. It was kind of adorable. That still remains to be the only time that Charlie has ever wanted to go home with anybody.
In other news, we bought a house!!! We got the keys on Friday and have been painting non-stop for the past three days and are almost done painting! Painting is going to be the easy part though, we have linoleum, carpet, and cork to scrape off of our hardwoods before we can refinish them. It's going to be a project for sure. Good thing tomorrow is a rest day :)

Spokane Jazz Orchestra

We finally made it to a concert in the park this summer. I'm still hoping that we make it to a few more, but at least we made it to one! Charlie and Pip didn't really care, so we ended up playing at the playground when there was no more food to eat. Pip went in the swing for the first time and giggled the whole time. It was adorable and I'm so glad that I have her. She is such a happy baby. She smiles all the time and giggles whenever you try to get a laugh out of her.

 Look at that face? Isn't she just the sweetest?

 The band that played was the Spokane Jazz Orchestra and they were very entertaining.

Beaver Creek '15

We took our first camping trip as a family of four on the last weekend of June and it went pretty great. It's the first time that I've been camping up here where it's actually warm enough that you want to go swimming. Which made it so that we spent hours down at the lake and it was one of the best trips I've ever had. Charlie did pretty well in the water, mostly wanting to be held or just play in the sand, but he did warm up a bit and only cried for a little bit in the beginning. I didn't end up taking as many photos as I would have liked, but I did snap a few. We ended up going camping with my brother and his family and then some family friends.

This log used to be a pylon that was in the ground but the guys decided it would be nicer on the sand.

On the first night that we were there Charlie ran into a table and got a pretty good gash on his eyebrow. It was actually his first ever band-aid injury.

Graduation Party

Last month Andy's sister, Liz, graduated from her doctorate program! So we threw her a little backyard bbq with family. And the kids helped open a few presents with her. It was a fun afternoon of eating food and eating cake.

Coeur d'Alene

While Andy's dad and step-mom were in town we took a day and went to Lake Coeur d'Alene. It also happened to be a huge car show so we took some time to walk through some of it, and when I say some of it I mean only the first 20 cars or so that were in the front parking lot. We did not walk all the way down the block and around the city center. I don't love cars to begin with, so we decided it was best to skip that long, hot walk with all the kiddos and go to the lake. Mostly they just played in the sand, which was fine by me.

This phone was a hit.

There's a little manmade creek that the kids really liked playing in.

This kid.

Great Grands are pretty Great

 Andy's grandparents came for a visit last month and these are some of the photos from their trip. They set up a little fishing game for the kids and Charlie absolutely loved it and has been wanting to do it ever since. Not only was it fun to throw the fish "hook" over the blanket but he got a puzzle and a water ball. He was a big fan.