Ahhh Summer.
Summertime in Spokane, WA is just heavenly. Everyone lives for these months and we're always sad when it's over. And it's OVER! We had so many trips to the beach and this summer we discovered how fun the Tubb's Hill hike was! And I discovered how nice it is to use a baby slip as a carrier! I'd never used one when Cole and Logan were babies. We did the Tubb's Hill hike at least three times where you hike to this gorgeous beach where there are fun rocks to jump off of and the water is so clear. Heaven.
Emma, Lissie and Christian drove up one weekend in July so that we could go to the Hermes reunion that they do in Idaho every summer. It was so sweet of them to come because it was a long drive just for a weekend all the way from Utah!
A week later, we had the first annual Brent & Yvonne Byers family reunion and all of Steve's siblings came into town! We did the Spokane Temple 5k and fun run! (My first time running a 5k in about 3 years ha!) We went boating along the Spokane river that then fed into lake Coeur d'Alene that will always be my favorite lake! Yvonne took all the girls to do a spa day, oh my! She certainly spoiled us! And we went swimming at Hauser Lake too.
At the beginning of August, my sister Marie and her kids came to visit and we did the same Tubb's Hill hike, we got huckleberry milkshakes (my all time faaaaaavorite!! Crew even got to try his first milkshake and he loved it too of course.) We did soooo much thrifting which for whatever reason is so much more fun with sisters around ;)
Later in the summer we saw the eclipse. We thought that since in our area it would cover the sun 90.5% that it would surely get dark outside but it didn't get nearly as dark and we thought it would! I was amazed at how light it was outside still. Luckily a friend of mine let me buy some of her extra eclipse glasses off of her so we were able to actually see the eclipse. It was so cool! It will happen again in 2024 I believe so we don't have to wait too terribly long for the next one.
On a Saturday not too long ago when we were spending time as a family, we decided to go the the pool at the apartment complex where our friend lives. Steve was showing Cole how to do backward rolls in the water but unfortunately the water wasn't deep enough and Steve scraped his face across the bottom of the pool. It was baaaad. It was less of a cut and more like a chunk of his nose just came out, right at the bride of his nose! Steve's buddy who is a doctor agreed to come to the house and stitch it up for him. He had road rash on his face for at least a week and it's still healing, even now, over a month later. I think maybe in like a year the redness will be completely gone?? haha. He definitely did a number on his nose. We're glad he's ok though.
It's crazy to think that we didn't go anywhere this summer! We just never planned a trip but everyone planned a trip to come see us. I actually loved it. Like I said, summers in Spokane cannot be beat ♥
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