Chelan 2009 - Kids

Crew Charles Price (3 years 3 months)

Jaymin James Kerlee (2 years 11 months)

Colt Mires Pemberton (2 years 1 month)

Wyatt Scott Chase (18 months)

Brody Jeffery Price (14 months)

Rilyn Leigh Kerlee (9 months)

Jax David Pemberton (2 months)

These are all the kids in order of age that were with us this year in Chelan. Next year we will have 3 new kids as Julie, Jess and Court are all pregnant. Julie and Jess will both be having boys but we will not find out what Court is having until October. I think its a boy but we could sure use another girl around here! Rilyn is going to love all these vacations as she gets older if she continues to be the only girl.....though I don't think her parents are too excited about that.

Chelan 2009 - Lake Fun

Since our house was practically right on the lake we spent a lot of time there! The boys even did some fishing (but they had there own style for sure!!).

Colt and I walking down the dock to see the fish.

Dave in his scuba gear swimming down to look at the fish. There were thousands of fish swimming out by the dock.

Shane got his fish!!
All the boys had a competition to see who could get the most fish. They were using croquet sticks and tied fishing line to them with a worm attached and then when the fish would go to grab the worm they would catch the fish with there hands. But don't worry no fish were harmed by them doing this!

Dave touching his fish with his tongue.
He tried to get Colt to kiss it but he wanted nothing to do with it!

Dale showing Wyatt how it's done.

Tyler and Jaymin with there "big catch".

Court and Shane brought a boat so we did some fun boat rides and even got to do some tubing. Court and I went out and laughed the entire time on the tube. I wish we could have done more of it!

Our camera takes underwater pictures so Dave had fun taking pictures of them all fishing and looking at the fish.

Check out all those fish!

Fishing underwater! The boys have to make EVERYTHING a competition. They literally keep track of points and announce a loser at the end of every night (though they say there competition kind of got spoiled this year with having to watch the kids at times so us girls could get a break, next year they all want nannies:)).

Chelan 2009 - Recap

We spent the 1st week of August and took our yearly vacation to Chelan with the Price's, Stacy's, Chase's and Kerlee Family. All of us girls played volleyball together at Central and most of us were roomates at one time. We have kept in touch and try to get together a couple times a year but its hard when we all live in different places! We take turns cooking each night and on Sunday (Dave and I's anniversary) it was our turn. We made chicken, pineapple, onion skewers and steak, mushroom, pepper, onion skewers as well as strawberry pretzel salad and fresh bread. It turned out yummy!

The down side of the trip was that a nasty flu bug went through the entire house and about half of us ended up getting it!! Colt and Dave both got it and were throwing up and sick for an entire day. I had a lesser version of the flu but still did not feel great and of course sleep was almost non-existant when you are taking care of sick kids and you have a newborn that still wakes up at night so I tried to get snoozes when I could. Lucky for us Jax was spared from getting it!!

Colt took a huge liking to Brody for some reason. He would walk around the house with his arm around him or constantly trying to hold his hand. It was pretty funny and cute but I don't think Brody enjoyed it that much!

Colt and Wyatt getting into the cooler.

It seemed like we spent all week telling the kids to stop doing something. We had 5 very active boys running around as well as 2 babies (Jax and Rilyn-who is the only girl of the bunch). They were constantly getting into something or running out the doors away from us!!

Jess was as usual a kid favorite. She always had fun activities to do with them. One night she made ice cream cake and let all the kids help her. Colt was completely in love with her all weekend!!

Before the flu hit too badly we made a trip to the waterslides (I stayed home with Jax). Apparently Dave started right off on taking Colt down the really big slides (no baby slides for him) but he didn't cry.

So proud of himself after going down a big slide!

Jess would take Colt and Wyatt out every morning to feed the ducks. Actually I think it started by her taking them the first morning and then every morning after that Colt would come downstairs in the morning and say to her "feed ducks??" she never did say no:)

Our house was right on the lake which was perfect for all the kids. They had a little beach spot to play in the sand and shallow water to play in the water.

Dave and I by the fire one night.
We only had a fire one night this year because it was soooo hot. By the end of the week it cooled down one evening enough to have one but most of the time was spent trying to stay cool.

Dave and Dale playing cards.
These two should be married! We always joke that if anything happened to Jess and I, Dave and Dale would move in together and raise the kids:)

The boys at our last night in Chelan.

The day before we left all the boys went golfing. They wanted to do it earlier in the week but someone was always sick, finally on Friday they were all healthy so they got there golf game in!

Colt

Many faces of Jax

These brothers love each other!!

Colt makes me laugh!!

• Colt had the flu while we were on vacation in Lake Chelan and was throwing up over and over. After heaving his guts out for the umpteenth time (I lost count after 6) he looks at Dave and says " Daddy I feel all better!!".
  
• I was changing Colt's diaper and as I am pulling his shorts off he looks at me and says "Mommy, its a big one. Big poop."
• Dave told me he would watch the kids one evening while I went running by myself. Since I never get to go on runs without pushing the jogger I jumped right up and went and got ready. I come downstairs and Colt takes one look at me and says "mommy go running, Tolt come too!" I tell him that mommy is going to go by herself this time and he looks at me with this sad face then says "no mommy Tolt come" and he runs to the door, opens it up and climbs into the jogging stroller. I couldn't say no so he came with me and proceeded to talk to me the entire 4 miles "Where going mommy? Mommy you sweaty? Mommy you running fast? Why walking mommy?(even though I was not walking just going up a hill.).
• After every diaper change Colt looks at me and says "Thank you mommy."
• I was putting lotion on my feet and then putting socks on, I happened to forget my socks on the bed so I hopped on one foot over to grab them Colt looks at me hopping and says "Oh mommy good job!"
• Everytime I change Jax's diaper Colt likes to come over and "help" as I am pulling off his diaper and wiping his bottom Colt always says to me "little one mommy, Jax pooped a little one."
  

Home and Healthy

We just got back from our week long vacation in Lake Chelan with our college friends. As always we had a great time but this year we were hit with a flu bug that went through pretty much the entire house (there were 17 of us renting one house) so that put a damper on things. I have some pictures that I will post later when I get a chance. For now here are my boys taken from my I-phone (a 6 year anniversary gift from Dave). I took them out running almost everyday while we were there and I spent a lot of my time getting Jax to give me more smiles. More pictures and stories to come soon (I hope).

Splash Pad

We left for Lake Chelan and stopped in Kennewick to do some shopping at Costco. We dropped Colt and Jax off with there Memah, Aunt Dee Dee, Uncle Andy and Camryn at the splash pad in Kennewick.

Jax spent the time laying in the shade on a blanket.

But Colt and Camryn went out and had some fun. Aunt Dee Dee is one of there favorite people because she plays non stop with them.

Colt and Uncle Andy playing ball.

Kicking it around with Randee.

After we were done shopping we all met up for lunch at Quizno's before we headed out to Chelan. Colt fell asleep the minute he got in the car and did not wake up until Wenatchee (that is about a 3 hour trip).

Brothers and Best Friends for Life!