Yakima

Grammy booked a place for the family to go in Yakima. It was a fun looking house with an indoor pool. Yakima isn't too far from Renton. It was a nice drive not too long. Two cousins ended up coming along. They drove back with Caramel and Grandpa. The house was on a cliff with an amazing view. 

The house had two levels. The inside of the house only had an elevator to get you from the two levels which was interesting. 

Anthony set up a slip and slide on the big grass area. It never really worked the whole distance. The tarp was 100 feet, pretty long and we had water and dish soap on it. Anthony built an outside screen holder so we could watched a movie outside. 

All masked up and ready to go. Grammy had shopping lists for everyone. We stopped at Safeway in Enumclaw and everyone got the items on their list. 

I over packed, bring 6 bikes. I was hoping to go on some bike rides but it was hot and hard to wake up early in the morning. Only Myles and I ended up going on a bike ride on a trail. It was a cute gravel trail with little bridges. We saw a snake laying out in the middle of the trail. 

Myles' Baptism

Myles was baptized on August 1st at noon. It was a different experience with COVID restrictions. The baptism was limited to our family at the Renton Stake Center building and one bishopric leader. We were allowed to have a virtual meeting with others viewing the baptism through Zoom. This made it possible for my siblings and Anthony's siblings and cousins to view the baptism. Usually only grandparents can make the trip so it was nice to have all the extended family. Another special treat was Elan (my brother's son) was able to give a talk about baptism and the Holy Ghost. He did a great job, a wonderful example for the family to hear. He is starting a mission to Mexico soon. 

This was a busy Saturday, we watched another baptism at 10am, Myles' friend Jason. Then did Myles' baptism. Then went to look at our Golden Retriever dog in Mt. Vernon we are getting in a couple weeks. Then we went to Seahurst to meet up with the other family that had a baptism earlier. We wanted their baptisms to be together but it wasn't allowed. Debbie was sweet and bought cookies for Jason and Myles with their names and CTR. I got a quick picture with Rhett and the cookies before they were all gone. We didn't stay long at the beach as it was getting late. It didn't stop Cami and Myles from playing the water in their clothes. 

Anthony treated the kids to popsicles, Sonic for the boys and Powder Puff girl for the girls. Blue mouths for everyone. 

Myles Birthday

Myles used his bouncy house slide we have for his birthday party. We had 3 other families come over. One family had a sibling Rhett's age and two other families had a girl Cami's age. Like previous birthdays, Myles had a bucket (now a trash can) so he could dunk in it. After the bouncy house fun we did water balloons in the front yard then a piñata. 

Some of the boys. 

Cami and her girls. 

Myles really wanted a clown for his birthday. So Rhett was willing to dress up like on after the friends left. He came in riding on Myles' new bike talking in a higher pitched slower voice. Then we went outside to throw pies in each other's faces. 

Anthony's Cousin

Anthony has a cousin with four kids a little younger than ours that lives in Arlington. We hadn't seen them in a long time. The kids couldn't remember them so Anthony reached out to them to hang out. We traveled up to Arlington picking up Oliver Garden on the way to visit with them. After a little time the kids got use to each other and played inside and outside. The oldest boy close to Rhett's age even had a gecko like Rhett. They ended up just buying a side by side like Anthony's friend has. The kids all got a ride in it. We stayed late enough to have smores in the backyard. They are members of the same church as us which is interesting to see the same Christ pictures and statues that we have in our house. 

Pump Track

A fun dirt track the kids rode around on. The 3 younger on their bikes with friends and played on playground and climbing rock. Caramel bought a friend and skateboarded around the park. 

 

Exocet went around the block

Anthony worked on the Exocet today and had it out to drive it around the block. I helped with the brakes. It is off the welder shop hopefully soon. He really wants it done before the summer ends to drive in the nice weather. 

4th of July

We started the day with a short and sweet neighborhood parade at Allen park. With social distancing, there wasn't a big crowd and after the loop around most families went home. We did get to chat for a bit with two other families and a school friend of Camellia's. Two kids ended up coming over and seeing your new bunnies for a bit. 

 Myles got a fun treat from his church teacher. Some candy wrapped like TNT. He loves the phrase "TNT dynamite" from the AC/DC song. Rhett and him opened it up and tried putting it in Coke to see if it would explode. We did this with Mentos awhile back.

For the night activities with had 2 families over for dinner and fireworks. One family brought a ton of fireworks. We did watch a bit of Independence Day but both fireworks and the outside movie needed darkness. Once it was dark we were back to fireworks. It was sad not having Caramel with us, she is still in Utah. The kids got to light off some big fireworks. Rhett and his buddy were even biking around alittle which had me paranoid. Myles had some snake fireworks he couldn't find so he went on a snake hunt with Grammy. Cami had firework called Girl Power she used as vase the next day. Lots to clean up in the morning.