Cousins Are a Blessing From the Lord!

Ellie(5) with cousin Elliot(3).

DeeAnn(6) and Gracie(7).
Katy(10) holding Trinity(7mos.) and Grandma Dottie(83).
A lovely dinner at mom's to celebrate Grandma Dottie's visit.

Redneck potty training!
Redneck hoola hoops too. My Dad made these out of sprinkler line and man can these girls hoola hoop. Their Aunt Amy would be proud!

Aunt April desperately trying to get a smile out of Elliot.

Camping in Wallowa

Yea, that's a real deer right by our tent. They were really brave and loved "leftovers". One morning at about 5am I heard all of this cracking and crunching and I woke up in the tent really mad at my Dad. In my delirium I was sure he was outside the trailer breaking ice(hint at how cold I was). I kept thinking, "Why on earth do you need to break ice at 5 am?" Finally I got up to tell him it was way too loud. To my surprise it was this deer licking a plactic wrapper! Sorry Dad!

These umbrellas were really handy for keeping the hail off of us:)

Cute picture of Linda O.

Katy got pretty flowers from the Hughes and I thought this was such a cute picture of her. I rarely get a big grin out of this girl. OK. I'm still bragging. Totally cute picture of Jack proving there is great hope for his future as a father. He's usually kinda freaked to hold little babies, but he looks completely calm holding little Ella Dayton. So manly!
Katy multi-tasking.