Paul was over helping of course, and if you haven't seen him in a while, don't worry he hasn't grown a crazy mullet, he just found this and a plastic gold pedant that says "winner" in our garage. He decided to wear it around and proceeded to golf like this in the front yard. I'll share those pictures in another post!
Here are the new lights!
Now our house is bright and safe like all the other houses in the neighborhood!
While Bryce removed the entire top of the deck...
I wore Shawna's bra over my shirt...in a bar.
While Bryce tore down all the railing...
I was out on the town with two of my favorite people...
I CANNOT wait to show you the final product (the deck and the wedding!) but I have been sworn to secrecy (about the deck of course) until it's totally done. Currently we have most of a deck, but no rails and no stairs. Bryce has plans to continue working on the deck this weekend, and this time I will be around to help!
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!
Bryce spent several evenings after work loading lava rock, he could tell you for sure but I'm pretty sure it was about two truck loads to get rid of it all (just from this corner). Fortunately Bryce's uncle took it to put under his deck, otherwise it is very expensive to dispose of.
Here is the pile of roots and stumps that Bryce dug out by hand, he pulled the really big stump out with a truck, but he had dug all around it and cut off the big roots first.
And the after pictures! Brand new bark and no ugly bushes or lava rock! 
I do have plans to plant new trees and bushes and flowers. But that probably won't happen until next year, after I have had some time to learn more about what will grow well in this spot. This has been a long project, now we move on to the deck...
After Bryce left for the evening to attend an arena football game with his dad I decided to tackle re-doing this cute dresser that I bought at the big neighborhood yard sale a couple of weekends ago. This is the before picture, it's hard to see here but it's pretty old and the dresser was very dirty and dingy. I sanded it down and re-painted it to match the molding in the house:
Here is the after picture! It is in the little cut out in the "purple" room. Bryce would like to put a built-in dresser here someday, but in the meantime this $10 hand-me-down will work just fine. I was reading a friends book on how to be "green" and re-using furniture is a great way to be "green."
