back....counting down until next time...

Our time spent in Montana was even better this year.

The amazing  B family survived the very long drive over and spent a week with looking for turtles, swimming, swimming and swimming.

I love that friends can become family.

Love you B family!!

Years later Emilie still looks like she just walks off the end of the dock.

Molly is all about safety first.

She would wake up and put her life jacket on.

On our first day home I found her wearing her life jacket in our tiny blow up pool.

Another addition I made this year was hammocks.

I love hammocks and the view from this one was perfect.

This quickly became Colin's favorite afternoon location.

Whenever I could get a chance my lazy bones where in it.

{I need to start hiding the phones when I take pictures}

The days spent at the lake are very lazy and perfect. Nothing is too important and the kiddos usually spend the day swimming and gathering random things. The one thing Colin has to do everyday is ride his four wheeler with his dad. That is truly one of his favorite things.

While they where on one of their adventures the girlies and I

made a fort for book reading and snoozing.

Emilie was able to fit in some painting between swimming and laying around.

She finally found her focus this summer. Before this summer she hated coloring, painting or really anything that took more than 5 minutes.

Now she will spend 10 minutes on something.

Colin found many hours in the days to draw.

I love that drawing is his go to decompression activity. He waked up drawing, falls asleep drawing and takes a few hours in the middle to draw. I wish I could draw. I can barely draw a stick figure and in a few minutes Colin whips out this awesome picture of the lake.

Another new addition to the lake was a power boat.

My size power boat.

I'm not a big fan of human size motor boats.

I am a huge fan of this size.

So is this little dude.

Every morning he would check to see if the battery was charged, throw on his life jacket and race it around the dock.

So cute.

We said our goodbyes to the B family and our hellos to Auntie and cousin Jack. 

I can not imagine my life with out my sister.

She would move the moon for me and I would defiantly try to do the same for her.

She loves my kids as her own and can always find a way to make me laugh. Even if it at myself.

Love you Ann Marie!

Her son Jack is an amazing kid.

He is my kids hero and in return he is funny, fun, kind  and PATIENT with them.

We love you Jack!

This summer Emilie brought her riding legs and a very brave spirit. She rode he bike on trails and got on Colin's 4wheeler.

Maxie dog turned 7 this year and he is starting to show his age. 
He still loves to swim and jump off of the dock but with age he has also gotten wiser.
He knows when he can just wait for a ball.

Sometimes you need to just wait and be happy with that.

I'm still trying to learn that skill.

One day....

You can see more of our trip over at intsagram. 

I'm @my3littleducks. 

I find myself pulling out my phone more and more lately instead of my big camera.

Our summers our like the movie Groundhogs day.

After awhile all of the pictures are the same.

Hello weekend

 I can't believe I forgot to add these to our 4th of July post.

Anything taken on my iPhone tends to get lost until I need to sync my phone to iTunes.

This was Emilie's  first time on the tag-along bike.

she loved it! 

I never know with that girl what she is going to like or not like in most cases.

Molly loves being pulled around in her own ride.

I think this where she is going to spend most of her naps this summer.

{Back to yesterday}

For the next three weeks our Fridays are going to be mostly be spent in the little town of Enumclaw.

The kiddos already have gymnastics there all winter long but on different days. For the month of July they moved all of the classes to Fridays. 

Emilie's in the early am and Colin's is at lunch time.

That leaves us 2 hours of down time doing this. 

And then the time during each of the classes doing this.

I love molly's face in the back ground. So cute!

Those 4th of July streamers are still going strong.

She takes hers everywhere.

Who knew Emilie could or would want to climb a tree.

 I didn't... Probably should have.

And in her favorite cowboy boots. 

Nicely done Emilie

Once home we spent the rest of the day with the amazing B family, who is leaving us for a week.

We took a fun walk to get ice cream and on the way back Colin saw some little gals riding their bikes and to Colin their bikes were making a glorious motorcycle sound.

A sound he had to have coming from is bike.

Here is the magical sound maker

Anyone do this as a kid?

I think I had playing cards in my spokes.

I don't remember them being this loud....

The girls then spent the night dressing up and having little dance recitals outside.

Molly won best costume award.

It was the perfect way to finish out a very long and sick filled week.

Thank you B family for feeding us {again}, letting us {again} hang at your home

and play

with your amazing fur baby.