Our new yard

On Friday I brought my sister to the airport. Those 7 weeks flew by way too fast! We had such a great time, she could have stayed here a lot longer!!! We already miss her.

When I got home from the airport, there was a big truck with sod by our house!
Rudi and I (mostly Rudi) had done a lot of work on prepping the dirt and laying bricks under the fence to get ready for the grass.
Rudi, Justin, Daniel, Peter and dad all helped Rudi roll out the sod that day! It looked instantly beautiful! What a change!!!

The next day we had a some more sod to lay. There was this big patch of dirt in between our en Peter & Miriam's house.
So everybody came over and helped us lay the sod in that patch! It was fun to work all together! Plus it got done pretty fast.
Here's the result;

The big strip.

snap shots

we're trying to get our yard done. All the sprinklers are in, now all we need is the sod!

Camping!

We went camping for a couple of days in McCall last week.
Unfortunately the weather was not great. But we still had a good time, it was fun to get away and relax for a couple of days!

My pretty little sister!

Handsome little guy!

under my umbrella

Justin and Rudi went fishing and brought back 25 rainbow trout! They cleaned them all and then they convinced me to fry them. They actually turned out delicious!

Family pic on the boat!

I love our two precious boys! They are so fun!

Nieko took a little snooze on the boat after he fell and hurt his head. Poor guy...

Tys had so much fun camping! Logan was there too, and they just had a blast together. So fun to see them growing up together! I'm sure there will be many camping trips to come in the future. Although, I gotta be honest, the boys love it more than I do....!

Floating ~ Anniversary Inn ~ Wahooz ~ Farmers market

We're having a very fun-filled summer!
Since El is here we want to do lots of fun things with her.

We went to Wahooz a fun place to go to, they have go-carts, batting cages, bumper boats, laser tag and much more! This is me in the batting cage. I hit 17 out of 24 balls!

Just a cute picture of Nieko. He stands up whenever he can pull himself up. I don't think he's ready to walk yet. But he's fast at crawling!

Moriah and Nieko after a bath in their jammies.

Rudi and I spent a night at the Anniversary Inn, in the Holywood Romance suite. I really liked this sign above the soda fountain.

The next morning we went to the farmers market. Where Rudi's mom dropped of El and the boys. The farmers market in Boise is fun!

Then, later on, we floated the Boise river. Tys and Logan got to go too, in the boat with pake and Siska. It was fun, but the rapids were a little scary sometimes..

Right after floating.

We're still working on our yard. Today all the guys worked on making trenches so we can lay all the sprinkler pipes. It's quite a project! But it's coming together. Meanwhile we have beautiful flowers!

Tys likes the flowers too, and he learned to be gentle with them in stead of digging in the dirt. (that was kind of a challenge for a while)