End of Summer!

We had some fun family vacations in August! The first stop was Neskowin with Sittee! This was our third summer spending time in Neskowin, and we love it!

The first afternoon we got there wasn't very warm and kids weren't prepared for the sand, but they made do!

As you can see no swim trunks on!

Game time!

This cute little guy was first in line at the Neskowin farmer's market for the best marionberry scones in the world!!! My mouth literally waters just thinking about it a month later! 

Got 'em! bought 8!! Some for today and some for tomorrow! I wish I had some in the freezer right now! They are THAT good!!!

Story time at the market, and we got to take home free books!

Walking to the market together!

Kyrie "reading" to Daddy!

Crazy girls!

Family dog pile!

Family walk around the cute little town!

The kids love the beach!

Baseball on the beach!

Smores!! One of the kids' favorite part of our beach vacation!

SMH + MAH~~12 years married, almost 18 years together! Half our lives! Crazy!

SMH+MAH~~Josiah, Mia, & Kyrie So thankful for our sweet family!

Trying to capture fish!

Sittee got the kids kites and they had a blast flying them!!

A very special Kaady vacation!

Two days later we were on to Eagle Crest with the Cusacks!

Bike riding craziness!

Mia still learning how to ride without training wheels....almost there!

Golfing on the course after hours!

Tag!

Cousin fun!

Yummy smores at the lodge!

Mexican Train Dominoes time!

Roller skating with Yaya!

Kyrie loves the pool!

My boys!

Daddy challenging Mia at the splash pad!

Family swim in the baby pool!

Apparently the deer aren't afraid of people!

This is how we roll on our walks when kids get tired!

Ice cream after the long "walk"!

Cousins!

Our crazy, beautiful girl!

Tennis lessons with Mommy!

Loved the game room at the lodge! Maco and I even played ping pong and air hockey at night while the kids were sleeping at the condo with Papa & Yaya!

The quad bike! Fun times and a really good workout on the quads!

Can't wait until next year!!

The kids took swim lessons at Cascade Athletic Club at the end of the summer and loved it! 

Neighbors!

Rehearsal dinner for their very first flower girl/ring bearer gig together! Thanks to cousin Steph and Jake for the honor of being a part of the special day!

Make me melt!

Not any time soon Miss Mia Rae Ann!

Mia got a special pearl necklace from Steph to wear on the big day!

The rehearsal dinner with Ang!

Daddy loves his girl!

Love my Kaady family!

The big day is here! I braided her hair and she got pampered with curls from the hair stylist!

Wedding time!!

Cousin Jess!

Can't get enough of this smile!

Sittee and her loves!

Wish Daddy could have come to the wedding! He had to work and made it for the reception!

Kyrie's first boutonniere!

Mia had a slap bracelet for the corsage! It was so hip!

He is ready to go! Don't lose the rings, Buddy!

Look at these handsome two! Kyrie with cousin/best man Zach!

So sweet!

Kyrie got to take pictures with the big boys until they got kicked off the golf course!

Walking with Uncle Rog!

Such an entertainer!

And of course when there's something to climb on.....you MUST!!

Kids did awesome and stood up front the entire time!

Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Kaady! Beautiful couple, wedding, and day!

Our beautiful flower girl and handsome ring bearer!

Mom night out at McMenamins Edgefield! It was my first time there and tons of fun!

Cottonwood beach with friends! This beach is on the Columbia River and just ten minutes from our house!  It is such a fun place to play in August/September! The kids had a blast!

Kyrie having fun with his new buddy Christian that I nanny for!

Even though we left Union, we still have to get together for BBQs with the basketball coaches! I loved using the new patio and our fire pit!

Playing corn hole in the dark!

Smores!!

Summer fun when the Inversos visited!!

The 3 amigos! Kyrie's buddies from birth!

 

We decided to demolish our little 8 x 10 patio and make a 22 x 13 patio! So looking forward to having enough room on our patio to finally fit our table and more!!

We also decided to put in a basketball court/sport court!

I had to take a picture of the 2 foot hole that Maco had to dig that took many hours!

Concrete day and it was kind of a big deal taking up the road!

So excited to have a place for the kids to play basketball!

Took Maco and two others almost 9 hours with no breaks to put the hoop together! Sheesh! A big shout out to my dad and our neighbor Ty for helping for many hours! We couldn't have done it without you both! Thank you!!!!

The kids love it so far!

Mia and Maco have special basketball clinics now!

Love the stamped patio! We still need to fix up the grass and area around the patio!

This is what we have so far! I have more ideas for next summer including a pergola for some covering!

Kyrie & Yaya watching Mia at gymnastics!

Summer $1 movies watching Rio 2 with the neighbors!

Dress up fun with Kyrie's buddy, Luke!

Last soccer practice of the summer.....parent game!

Go Daddy!

So we found some goats tied up eating the brush at a local business in town! This was a first for me!

Cousin play date!!

Mia had her first sleepover at the cousins' house! She loved it!

Mia was such a good sport and did the ice bucket challenge for ALS!

Kyrie has been napping less these days, and he fell asleep on our bed one late afternoon with all of us in the room! This never happens!!

Mia and I helped out with at the "repack" event at the Clark County Food Bank this month! She actually said it was fun! We will be going once a month(2nd/4th Tuesdays 5:30-8, we stayed til 7) if anyone with a 6 year old or older wants to go with us!

Water girl!

Getting in one last free game of bowling before the summer ended!

Putting the kids to work!

The Reptile Man at Crown park! Mia actually pet the snake! Shocker of the summer!

Movie in the Park craft fun! Making crowns and Olaf  head bands from Frozen!

Clark and Kyrie!

This was our first time going to a movie in the park, and it was tons of fun! It was even Maco's first time watching Frozen! Not sure how he managed to escape that when we own the movie!

Old and new friends joined us for the movie!

The kids love making up obstacle courses together!

Last weekend of summer BBQ fun! Tug-o-war!

Smores time!

And the BBQ ended with an outdoor movie....second night in a row of an outdoor movie for us!!

Of course Kyrie made some new friends, and they just happened be be older girls! Not quite sure why this always happens!

Shadow dance party after the movie!

Last soccer game parent tunnel of the season! Great shot, Auntie Kelly!

Auntie Kelly got to come watch Kyrie play!

Kyrie getting his first trophy, which he was stoked about!

Love our Coach Spike!

Doc McStuffins Radio Disney party at our favorite pediatric dentist, the Lubisich family!

Kyrie brought Dreadman to get a checkup!

All good!

And about 2 weeks after trying to ride without training wheels at Eagle Crest, Mia just went out and started riding on her own!

It was awesome and she was so proud of herself, as were we! We now officially have a no training wheels rider.....now on to the next child!

Back to school night at Dorothy Fox! Mia will be in full day first grade this year!! She is really excited!

Our friends, the Collettos, just moved in down the street from us and will be attending Fox, too! Kyrie loves him some Dominic! They had to get the official fox picture together on back to school night!

Mia wanted to do a lemonade stand all summer, and we finally made it happen on the absolute last day of summer!( I feel like I wrote this exact same thing last summer!):) They had so much fun doing it with the neighbors.

They donated all the money they made to the Humane Society!

We have such good friends and neighbors! They all came running when I sent out a last minute text about the lemonade stand! So sweet!

We had a fabulous summer, and I can't believe how fast it went! We are looking forward to a great school year, and basketball season will be here before we know it!!!