Well, since I last blogged, forgive my slackness, I don't feel like we have had a busy summer but I guess we have had lots of fun! My sweet cousin, Lauren Cross, married the man of her dreams at the end of July, which brought lots of family to Montana from IL! My dad has 6 siblings including his sister Mary here, and basically 3 siblings and their families came out for the wedding plus my grandma! That was a ball and all my family came except my dear brother-in-law, next year we are going to get his butt out here! Pardon my typing! My family and my cousin Laura were blessed to spend time up at Flathead Lake at the Cross' cabin. Tom, Titus and I camped one night in the yard there! We all went to Glacier Nat. Park from there and did an amazing hike at Avalanche Lake there! I was so excited to show my family the beauty of Montana and to make sure they had a good time. We came back to Missoula for the wedding and before they all left we did some bike riding and we took my nieces to a sweet park and the Carousel while my parents and sisters went rafting down the Alberton Gorge! My nieces are 8 yrs. and almost 2 yrs. and both of their first times here and Titus had a great time with them. Gracie was a great helper with the two younger ones and Bella said Titus' name with the cutest ring to it, I miss hearing her say his name!
We also went for about a 20 mile bike ride on the path along Hwy 93 from Lolo to Florence and back! When we pulled up to Subway in Florence to eat, this is what Titus was doing in the bike trailer! So cute! I thought I was going to die that day and I WASN'T pulling the trailer, Tom was!
We have been enjoying all kinds of food and smiles this summer!
Including trout on the grill and zucchini! Mmmmmm! Go hubs!
We went for a hike along Cache Creek Trail down off Hwy 12! Titus loved the water and loves throwing rocks in the water (or down the neighbors stairs).
We made our first homemade ice cream with the ice cream attachment for the Kitchen Aid (we have had it since we got married in 2009). Mmmmm! Homemade Flathead Cherry Ice Cream! Go hubs!
Labor Day weekend we traveled over to WA and visited some dear friends, the O'Dells, in Spokane. Titus is missing due to the fact that he had not woken up for the day yet and this was at about 9 am their time! Yes these 5 adorable kids are all theirs! (L to R: Acacia, Naomi, Adelyn, John, Justus, Joyalise & Beth)
Once Titus woke up that morning, we headed on to Richland where Tom's brother and family now live. We enjoyed our time with them as well and the girls definitely enjoyed showing us their ballerina moves, thank you Zowee and Noelle for always being ready to entertain us :)
We got one night of real camping in, which was interesting, Titus woke up and it felt like he was awake for about 2 hours before I could get him back to sleep! Like our Jumbo Marshmallows? The smores that night were terrific to say the least!
Our campsite out at Trout Creek off I-90, yes we have a little 2 man tent, which we love and stay warm that way on the cool Montana nights!
Our little camper and his poking stick that he loved walking around with!
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