OUR NEWEST ARRIVAL... Corvin Jax Pettey, July 28, 2009, 6 lbs. 10 ozs., 20.25 inches long

Braxton and Michael came to the hospital to watch Corvin be born. They were great helpers. We are so happy to welcome Corvin into our family. He is doing great.

You can't have summer without bubbles. Today we have been doing bubble snakes. I took a water bottle, cut off the bottom and rubber banded a washcloth. Then we dipped them into dish soap and blew. The boys absolutely loved it. We had contests to see how long of a snake we could make.

Our Summer Days...

Of course we have had pool time. The weather has been just great here in Spokane and we have the baby pool set on the deck. They also enjoy the sprinkler under the tramp and washing their bikes with the hose. A friend of mine told me about free bowling for kids this summer. If you go to www.kidsbowlfree.com they have bowling alleys that give kids 2 free games per day in the summer. You do have to pay for shoes, but it sure is a lot of fun. The boys keep asking when we can go again.

This is one of the many Michael summer injuries. We sure have a lot. That boy has so many bumps, cuts, bruises and band-aids, well it looks plain awful. That or it just looks like a boy being active in the summer. This one involved his brother and the cord on the blinds. I have yet to get a clear story from the boys. At one point, Michael told someone asking that his brother sawed his neck. Sounds great huh. All is healed now and we are on to other injuries.

Scot had a few days off and we were able to go camping at Lake Chelan, Wa. We had a great time swimming, playing, roasting marshmallows and being a family. We had a perfect campsite, perfect weather and no bugs. On the way home we stopped at Grand Coulee Dam and stayed for the laser show.

Some fun pictures of playing at the beach at Lake Chelan. The weather was perfectly warm, the water however, was a little on the cool side.

The boys' favorite

part was playing

with a log they

found and pretending

it was a canoe.

Michael and Braxton have signed up to take summer sports classes. Michael chose to do soccer and Braxton is practicing baseball. They sure are cute to watch and they are doing very well.