Trip to Chewelah

Our family travelled to visit the in-laws, swim in a pool in Moses Lake, go to Kelly's 30 (THIRTY) year class reunion, eat huckleberries, have fun at Riverfront Park with Landon, golf with Grandpa and put a down payment on some property right next to Grandpa and Grandma's! We also celebrated Lindsay's 8th birthday and had my Mom and family friends, Dave & Marla stop in as well. We really enjoy the Chewelah area and once the property is paid off, we plan on building our retirement home. Oh yeah, back to that class reunion photo...my bride is the "most beautiful woman" in the whole world, front row, far left. She hasn't changed a bit from high school, but some in the class can't make that statement. More photos to follow!

July 4th

It was an "hot" day here in Western Washington and in the low 90's. We will take any day here when it is not raining, windy or the freeway is backed up all the way to Portland! We drove out to a church camp where Nikki will be staying for a week, so we could see just how beautiful the area was and so I knew where I was going to take her tomorrow. We decided to stay close to home in the evening and watched everyones "money go up in smoke". Our RV park is adjacent to an Indian reservation, so there was lots of explosions and bottle rockets most of the night, but the girls enjoyed the sights! We are in the final stages of planning our trip to Chewelah. Kelly's 30 year class reunion is on the 17-18th in Republic, so we plan on heading over to Chewelah for a week, with a stop in Moses Lake going and a stop at Clear Lake on the way back.

Kerri's visit

Kerri stopped by to visit on Thursday, a day earlier than Jay enroute to the Winterstein Family reunion. The girls slept in to 0930 hours, until I mustered then on the port side bridge wing. We had a fun day of visiting, taking pictures, eating, laughing and playing a monster game of "Uno". She will be back on Monday to stay the night before traveling back to Long Beach, CA on Tuesday morning.

Tolmie State Park

After church today, we headed to Tolmie State Park which is a 15 min drive from our RV Estates. It was low tide and Lindsays favorite time of the day! She would stay out in the surf chasing crabs all afternoon if we let her. Nikki found a rather large sand dollar and waded out into the "deep" water. She wanted to use her boogie board but the waves just were not big enough today. We will come back again soon and next time, we will plan on bringing a lunch and some friends!

Landon Morris

Kelly and the girls just had to go visit their nephew, Landon last week. The weather turned out great in Spokane and Landon had some fun playing with the girls! He is growing so fast, he will be driving his motorcycle soon right along with his dad.

Okay, it's been awhile since we posted something on our blog, however the Fenns have been busy. As you might now notice, we have a new home. We decided to upgrade to a better built, warmer and for the liberals that read this blog, a more "non-global warming RV". Yeah, your right, it is more expensive. Kelly and the girls like the "stuff" it has, basically more girl things....larger refrigerator, convection oven, larger stove, full size sink, a fully furnished bathroom and corian counter tops. I'm more partial to the load range G tires at 110 psi, the larger storage capacity in the "basement" and the easy sewer connections. Yep, its all about how to get rid of the sewer water in style! Did I mention the automatic awning, slides and rear jacks? Yeah, with the push of a button I can close a slide and hide one of the girls for several hours if they need "time out"..hee, hee, please don't tell DSHS..

Oh, did I mention our truck is now white? Well, that's because President Obama's GM company went broke. My brown truck has been at the dealer in Tacoma for 3 1/2 weeks waiting for parts to make the "engine run". I've been told the parts vendors are not shipping anything to GM (or whatever its called now) and I could be waiting for some time. Wonderful news! Hey, don't buy GM, buy one of those noisy Ford or Dodge diesel's! On the bright side we are not traveling full time right now or we could be stuck in Buffalo, WY. I guess that wouldn't be too bad though, as we did enjoy what parts of WY we did see.

More to follow....

Trip to the Nisqually nature area.

Just a few minutes from our house is a great place to talk a walk with nature (and whoever you want to take with you). I prefer someone I know, like my family! It was kind of overcast that day, but we did enjoy the scenery and the sights. Lindsay said she wanted to see an alligator or something exciting but that really didn't happen. A cute dragonfly landed on Nikki's hand and we heard an ambulance speed up I5 and that was just as exciting as it got!