Boy time

Tyler decided to have a building session with some spare wood and items he found around the house. Blake and Daddy looked on as he created.

Blake seemed to think the tools were pretty nifty.

Fashion Show

Haley, Kaela and Rylee decided to create a fashion show for Tyler and Chloe. Chloe loved trying on all the costumes and showing them off. Tyler went along with the idea as well, but Daddy was not impressed with what the big girls did to him.

Kaela straightened Chloe's hair. She looks so old here.

The girls painted Tyler's face and Blake wasn't sure what to think.

Strike a pose!

OMG...........Tyler seemed to think this whole thing was really funny. By this time Daddy went home.

Blake is thinking......."What on earth did you let them do to you big bro! Never again!!"

Beating the heat

Brad needed to cool off after mowing the grass! Didn't take long for him to feel better.

What a bummer

Rylee and Haley spent 3 hours making chalk roads all around the driveway. They rode their bikes on it for a whole 2 minutes........then it rained!

Blake and I were walking over to Aunt Jenn and Uncle Scott's house when the downpour happened. Blake didn't know what to think.

We got a little wet!

This was the only surviving section of all their work thanks to the giant oak tree.

Even though they were pretty disappointed.....you gotta laugh!

Chloe and Tyler didn't mind the sudden down pour of rain. Nothing like puddle fun.

Summer fun

Blake going for a swim

Poor Ty never has any boys to play with, and always gets left out

trying to beat the heat

Chloe and Clara thought they would join in

Bye, Bye girls!!!

Going Fishing

We got our boat out of storage on Thursday evening and Tyler was begging Brad to take him out fishing. They went to Atwood... didn't catch anything, but Tyler lost patients and wanted to go FAST... so much for fishing!

Camp Invention.

June 21 - June 25 Camp Invention - Innovate Program

This is the third year Monica has been the director for Camp Invention. This year she had a 54 campers for the week. Camp ran from 9:00am - 3:30pm. Tyler and Chloe were campers and Haley volunteered as a Junior Counselor. We had a jam packed week of adventure and inventing.

Haley's group of campers. Megan was the head counselor for the green group.

We tie-dyed the shirts and were pretty excited at how they turned out.

Tyler and Chloe's group. Notice Chloe was so excited her friend Annika could be at camp too.

The Junior Counselors were Kaela, Haley and McKayla.

Monica would like to thank them for doing such a wonderful job. Their campers loved them!

Learning about obtuse angles.

Haley really worked hard to sport her group color of green! This was Wacky Hat Day.

Chloe and Monica on Crazy Hair Day.

Marissa, Haley and Kaela

Isn't Chloe so colorful!

Tyler loved his striped hair. They were still faintly there the next day due to a stained scalp. LOL....

You can just see the gears in Tyler's brain moving.

This was the take apart class called I Can Invent III. Chloe was checking out the insides of a tape player. Once they tool the electronics apart they got to make fantasy inventions.

Tyler wants to thank Grandpa and Grandma Tyler for giving him an old stereo to take apart. He had so much fun taking it apart. There was a lot to see inside.

Happy campers.

This was an activity in the Hatched class. The team had to design a water transport system for their virtual world avatars. Their system was made by purchasing items from our recycle room. They meet the challenge requirements and the team earned $500 to purchase supplies during other activities throughout the week.

Haley and Megan taking a breather.

Tyler is building his motorized creature. Each day they added another element until the final day when the creature races took place. The Power'd class was fabulous. The campers learned all about circuits and electricity.

Chloe's avatar was designed to look like her cousin Kaela! She accomplished her goal. She even added the blue headband. Kaela so kindly let Chloe wear the headband throughout the day. Can you spot Chloe in the next picture of our Base Camp during lunch time?

What a cutie.

The green team was brainstorming team names. The winner was the "Giant Green Dominating Ducks"! Chloe and Tyler's group name was the "Blue Mohawks".