Summer Around Ione

Ione is my favorite place to be in the summer, for a small town there is a lot to do! The festivities started last weekend with Down River Days. On Friday night mom and I always participate in Crazy Lady Softball. Here we are gearing up to play!


Mom does a great job in the outfield as you can see, having a drink and conversation.


On Saturday we headed to the lake to hang out with some friends, Paul and Bryce decided a bottle of whiskey was in order, here is Bryce at 7:00 p.m. He stayed like this until 10:00, hehe!
On Sunday morning we went to the park and enjoyed the "fair" food and booths and watched some snowmobiles cross the river.
Back in Spokane for the week, Bryce got this awesome picture of the sunset. It looks like one of those pictures that would be on an inspirational poster about God.
With camping coming up the following weekend Bryce and Paul went to work setting up the new tent. We wanted to make sure we knew what we were doing before we got to camp.

I had to lay down inside to check out the view through all the netting on top.
Well Done boys!
Finally, camping at Sullivan Lake! We arrived on Friday night and stayed until Sunday. Our friend Josh joined us and here he is towing the kids around on the kayak.

We spent two whole days in the beautiful sun. A few sunburns later we realized we had too much fun!
On our night to make dinner Bryce and Josh made Dutch Oven peach cobbler. It was amazing!

Now we are back in Spokane and back to the real-world. We have been so busy with all our fun summer activities I haven't been on here in a while and we definitely haven't done much with the house in a while (including cleaning it). I still have more pictures to share, so hopefully I will get those up in the next couple of days!