House of Dedons: May pictures, birthdays, Lake Chelan

O.k., so no real reason why it has taken me 2 1/2 months to download pictures to the blog. Yes, we are all busy, but it just got away from me. In May, we did our birthday celebrations with Stacy, Jonah, and Nolan. The weather was actually nice back then. Since that time, the weather has been awful. Think about it, there was one weekend in May when the sun came out and the next time was July 5th.

Nolan turning 7-where does the time go?

Jonah is too cool for 8 so he slid over to the 9 column.

Stacy was tired of being 35 so she danced her way to 36, only to find out that 35 wasn't half bad--can't go backwards now Chica!

We always have a great time celebrating all the birthdays and yes, it is chaotic, and fun.

The bat and ball came out. I think this is a hilarious picture of Jacob trying to hit the ball. he actually did hit it and it went over the fence. He looks like he should be yelling, "Attack!!"

Sophia had to be one of the gang too and she made some attempts at hitting the ball.

Jonah working on his bunting skills--still some work to do.

Fire doesn't usually mix with children, so we let Tom be in charge. Was that a good idea or not? Probably not.

Switching to taking the kids to Lake Chelan where my parents have a time share. Jonah and Noah out on the lawn playing catch. It was beautiful over there.

It was non-stop activities from the time we arrived to the time we left. Swinging, baseball, miniature golf, swimming, boating, you name it.

Kids having a great time building a fort at the beach on Saturday morning while the adults sat and looked out at the water with out coffee.

Grandpa Doug taking some time relaxing. There was very little of this kind of time, but we all tried to sneak it in.

I took out each child in the canoe and then my dad took out each child and then we each took different combinations of children at different times. Sounds like a math problem to me. They got more time on the water and in the water than they did sleeping.

then of course there was skipping rocks, which always brings to mind running to an emergency room at some point. They all stand right next to each other or in front of each other and begin to throw. It is a miracle that they don't peg each other more often.

Grandpa in the canoe with Jacob and Noah.

Jonah starting his early career in modeling. Actually, right after this picture he jumped in the water with his clothes on. Real nice.

"Canoe is coming in too fast, too fast I say." Thank goodness the dock was there. We won't talk about the 35 people that fell off the dock when the canoe rammed into it.

Oh, I forgot about the tennis lessons that Noah and Jonah took one afternoon. Again, they did every single thing they could do in a 72 hour period of time. They had a lot of fun with the pro.

Noah was a little tiger out on the court. He loved it.

Look at the other kid who took lessons with them. He was so tiny, but pretty good. Jonah did a couple double takes when he hit the ball over the net.

You know that prior to this picture, they were all fighting. Just thought I would clarify that fact. Don't want you all to think that we have the perfect family or anything.

Noah did end up jumping off the dock but Jacob looked down and saw fish swimming around, so he didn't. At first, I said, "there aren't any fish in there." But there were actually some pretty large ones swimming around. I need to learn to trust my children.

They really wanted to take a dip in the lake in the evening, even though it was cold.

Nice goggles boys.

This was the morning view from the deck. I could have sat there for hours with a cup of coffee, but sitting is child's play. We had to be moving at all times. That is why couple go away on their own sometimes, so you can just sit.