Hamilton Happenings......: July 2025

Helping sell fireworks for the Senior party fundraiser with Candy, a fellow basketball mama!

4th of July!

Derek roasted the most amazing meat!!

Wow!!

The Neslands always have a yummy menu! Mediterranean this year!

Always some bball playing!

Ping pong comps of course!

Camas basketball buddies!

Our 4th of July crew!

Hil and I with matching silicone bands!

Cheerleading fun!!

Love these ladies!

Mia hanging with Aubrey to finish out the 4th!

On their way to their 5th year of YoungLife camp!

Canyon Creek

Christmas Theme day!

Sunrise hike!

This swing looks like so much fun!

Sack race!

Western theme day!

Sports theme day!

Twinsies!

Cousins reunited!!

Cousins are here!! Naomi is so excited! We decided to do a Cusack family staycation this year!

First up-Movie night!

Love their hugs

These 3 sweet girls holding hands!

Second on the staycation agenda-Park time!

Cheese!

Slide with Papa!

Sliding with cousins!

Next up: Multnomah Falls!

The last time we went to Multnomah falls was with the Gunters when Mia was about 4 and Kyrie was 1! It was fun checking it out again with all the littles this time!

Trekking it up the trail as much as we could!

We went past the bridge and were hoping to make it to the 1 mile lookout point. But we had to turn around at .3 miles! There were still 8 switchbacks at that point!! It was so steep and bumpy, making it especially difficult with the jogger!

Ahhhh!! Miles & his mama!

After our hike, we made the trek 12 miles east for the delicious fruit infused ice cream! It was so worth it!!

More staycation fun! Movie time with Naomi, Nyla, and Miles!

Despicable Me 4!

We rented a pool on swimply.com!

4 hours of pool fun, ping pong, games and hanging out!

The swimply experience!

The whole gang!

Keepy Uppy!

Go, Nay!

The teenagers!

Nyla feeding the dolphins!

I love that the GFU boys help out weekly with the food bank! Kyrie even helped out this week! They surprised Jere today since it was summer and she didn't know they woul be there to help!

More movies with the cousins!

Staycation activity #342- Camas Days Kids' Parade!

Excited for the candy!

Llamas!

Snow cones!

Our last day with the Gunters!

She stole these from Auntie's pantry! Uh Oh!

Final hug!!

GFU men's and women's basketball teams are on their way to the Dominican Republic to build a sports court with Courts for KIds!

The location of the court!

Day 1

Day 2!

The teams got to play a couple games, too!

Day 3

Day 4

Visit to the ocean!

Day 5

GFU put on a basketball camp for the community!!

Day 7 and last day!

Court dedication!

Kyrie spent almost 2 weeks with Maco in Vegas and Cali doing all things basketball!

Kyrie was thrilled to sit by a bunch of D1 coaches while recruiting with Maco!

While in Vegas playing in a tourney, Kyrie's team went to games at the NBA summer league!!

Kyrie and friends made it on the big screen!!

Kyrie's All in Elite team went 2-2 in the final tourney of the season, playing up in 15u!

Auntie Albany and Hudson visit!

Beautiful ladies!

Nyla finally came around and had a dance party with Sittee and Auntie Albany!

Loved our time with these two! Until next summer!!

Book Club fun!

Happy Birthday, Amanda!

On the flight with the Blazers players going to the NBA summer league!

Yang Hansen!

Found on the Vegas Strip!

High academic HS camp!

Girls trip(plus her mama) to Mount Hood for Kennedy's 17th birthday!

Hike #1! I love that Kennedy wanted to hike for her birthday!

Enjoyed our first time watching Macy play softball!

Family pickleball!

Even Wonder Woman plays pickleball!

Loved this note from Liv, Nay's, b-ball coach at camp! So sweet!

Took a tip from our covid days and made a sidewalk chalk design!

Not much better than popsicles on a hot summer day!

Family dinner on the back patio!

Raw eggs? OOoops!!!; )

Love all the deer we see in our neighborhood this time of year! So many fawns!!

Kyrie's last Auburn tourney!

The sisters made up a cheer and performed it at halftime!

Halftime performance!

This one loves to cheerlead, too!

Nyla struggles to sleep in pack n plays currently, so she and I hung out at 5am in the lobby until she fell sleep!!

Such a big helper! Strolling through the Super Mall since the games are here!

The twins' grandma was so sweet and bought the girls matching outfits for their cheer performances today!!

So hot and tired! Finally got her to sleep!

Halftime Cheer performance #2!

Papa just came into town for the summer, so he got to come watch!

Nay loves to dress up and get fancy!

Summer nannying kiddos!

Kyrie participated in the Rise Above Daily b-ball camp for a couple days!

Visit to Sittee's shop for Mama's hair!

First FRiday in Downtown Camas! Poker tour and Alice in Wonderland theme!

We hadn't been to First Friday in a long time! It was fun going with the Mcgrews and taking extra nannying kiddos, Maddie & Logan, with us!

Have to read the Alice in Wonderland questions and figure out the answers!

So much sugar!!!

The grand finale-who can get the best poker hand? We weren't the big winners, but we had fun!!

Dinner at our favorite fast food restaurant!

First sleepover at our house with her bestie, Marli!!

More fun in Vegas with the b-ball team!

Dinner out with the team!

Reunited after almost 2 weeks!

So happy to have their big bro back!!

Dancing with big sis!

Naomi changes Nyla's diaper and chase around the house!

Sisters dancing fun!

More dancing fun!

Movie night!

Storytime with Naomi!

Ice cream date with the cousins!

Made homemade granola for the first time! Such a yummy recipe from JoZef's mom!

Family dinner at the Chasteens! Cousins!!

Cousin bath time!

Movie and sleepover!

Found these while going through the kids' memorabilia and loved!!!

The notes I used to put in Mia's lunches in Kindergarten!

Christmas gift from Maco when Mia was 8!

Card from Kyrie to Mia!

It was quite a project! I had been wanting to go through her memorabilia bin for years! So glad I finally did it!

Nay holding a couple day old chick!

Dancing sisters!

Pool time!

Family walk!

Nyla chasing the flashlight!

Baby Shark!!

Baby doll snuggles!

Fun with Nay!

Mat fun!

Bingo at Oak Tree Station with some of our besties!

Bingo winner!! Got some sweet sunglasses with a beer company name on them!

Hanging on the grass at Oak tree!

Nay found a classmate!

Nyla loves kinetic sand!

Helping Aunt Linda and Uncle George unpack in their new home!

I was so proud of myself! This part of our yard grows weeds like crazy! I finally decided after 13 years of living here that I would put down black ground cover to block the weeds! It has worked really well so far! I did it in the other part of the yard also! Next summer I will do the backyard!

Dinner with Sittee!

Facetime with Daddy while he was gone for a couple weeks!

Nay was so excited to use her gift card she won at Channing's grad party

Nay and I made a quick trip to Chehalis for a quick dinner with Siri to see her before she left for her sophomore year of college!

Dancin' fun!

Love this girl! Missed her birth since she came 3 weeks early and I was out of the country, but been watching her grow into an amazing woman ever since!

Always love our time together!

Nay and friends made a band!

Happy birthday, Georgia!

Cookie on the string game!

Georgia turns 10!

Waterfront date and Nyla got to tag along!

Snackin on blueberries we picked along the way!

Walking through the Fort Vancouver walkway!

Sleepover together! One last night together in the room they shared!

This girl loves her Daddy! She doesn't let him do much without her!

Even princesses play pickleball!

Or naked princesses!!

Like I said, Nyla loves to be with Maco! He even plays with her in the carrier!

These are hilarious! Good job, Auntie!:)

Naomi did Maddie's hair!

Love watching Nyla explore things!

Love listening to Nyla read!

Haven't seen these playgroup ladies in so long! It was great catching up at the new Bookish location on the lake!

While Maco was on his CFK trip, I got to drive Kyrie to Skyview workouts in early am each morning! I loved our time together! Well on the way there he slept, but on the way home I loved getting time to chat.