More August Rush cont...

Last weekend, we went our Gibbs Family Reunion in Boise, ID. We had a really great time with Mike's family. Aaron thoroughly enjoyed himself. He loved everything we did and he's been asking to go back to Boise to have some more adventures. Thanks Aunt Sherlyn for the great time!

Here we are out at Cascade lake. We had a little storm break up the fun for a few minutes. We all squeezed under the canopy. It was pretty funny.

Rudy was king of the canoe. He took most of the kids out for a ride and even took Grandma out for a ride.
Aubrey really enjoyed going in the water. She wasn't afraid to make a splash!
Here she is playing in the sand with her cousins, Eliza and Lauren.
We went to the little town rodeo in Cascade. It was our first time ever at the rodeo. It was pretty fun and the kids enjoyed themselves. Aaron loved watching all the riders. And Connor made friends with some of the local kids. :)

Here's the Gibbs family. Wow, we sure have grown! Below are the new additions from last year. Tristan, and Jake were adopted by Ding and Christy and then we had five girls all born within nine months of each other. Autumn, Eliza, Olivia, Aubrey, and Lauren. (Left to right: Jake, Aubrey, Autumn, Lauren, Olivia, Eliza, and Tristan)

August Rush continued...

Mike has been teaching Connor to ride his bike. He's done a really great job and we're almost there! Connor had a really good run a few weeks ago but has been a little nervous about getting back on the bike. He's just a hesitant kid. I'm hoping that he will be ready to get back on when we get back in town. Connor was hilarious when riding the bike. He stopped to do warmups at the end of the street before hopping back on his bike. His lunges were totally cracking me up.

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Aaron finished up the extended school year and really had a great time in school. He did great and seemed to really enjoy his additional school time this summer. I think riding the bus helped a lot! Mike and I have been trying to tackle the landscaping in our spare time this month. Mike's been working on taking out some stumps in the back yard and I've been working on making the front yard look somewhat presentable. We're getting there but it takes time. The boys had fun setting little "traps" for the squirrels around one of the stumps. We have the most amazing birds that come around our neighborhood. So I was thinking it would be really neat to fill up the bird feeders out back to attrack some of the birds. The bird feeders hang on these hanging plant rods and I didn't think the squirrels would be able to get to the feeders. I saw a few squirrels attemping to get the seeds but they just slid down the rod. It was pretty funny. But then they figured they could jump over to the feeder before they slid off. So sure enough, they got to the seeds and before we knew it, we had a backyard full of the neighborhood squirrels. So the boys wanted to set up some traps to get catch a squirrel. Poor Hemmie!