Idaho County Fair

We had a quick trip through the fair this year. We had a late start getting up there and then we had to be to a picnic for Ryan's Grandma June at 1 pm. Elise still does not like the animals and Jordis was petting the sheep and rabbits. Gma Eloise even tried bribing Elise to pet a sheep but that didn't change her mind. I only was able to take these 3 pictures because something is wrong with my camera. I am serious thinking about buying a Cannon Camera from Costco like Randi Jo bought. It comes with 2 lenses, a bag, and is digital. Right now it is just under $1,000. Does that sound like a good deal, I don't know. Hopefully this camera will last long enough to take pictures of Christel's baby when she finally decides to grace us with her presense:)

Email me please

If you haven't read my sister's blog today, you need to read it, it will have you laughing so hard you'll cry. Let's just say my brother-in-law is way more thoughtful and prepared than my husband every could be. Since my computer was crashed and then rebuilt I lost all my email addresses. If you read this please send me some kind of email so I can save you address to my contacts list. Ryan and I are off to serve beer tonight at the concert for Hot August Nights and to the Idaho county fair in the morning so the girls can see the animals and I can have a scone. I'll post pictures on Sun.

Prall family reunion

Aunt Chelsea & Macenzie
Elise asleep at the picnic
Nephew Zane
Kayden, Reed, Micaela, Dani, Zane, Jordis, Elise, Macenzie
Playing in the mister

This last weekend we went to the Prall family reunion down at Hell's Gate. Ryan's- dad's- mom was a Prall so it was alot of people that I didn't really know. Ryan's brother Ray and family were up from southern Idaho so we camped down there to spend more time with them. It was so stinkin' hot that the everyone including myself was on the crabby side all weekend. Luckily Ryan's uncle Bob had a camper with airconditioning so the girls and I took a 2 hour nap on Sat. It was nice that the girls could play with all 6 of their cousins all weekend, they don't get to see all of them at the same time very often. Ryan's dad bought a mister and set it up so all the kids played under that if we weren't at the river in the water.

We are still patiently waiting for my sister to have her baby. I call everyday to see how she is doing but no change. Hopefully it will be soon because our nephew Zane is already 9 months old so he is out of the "itty bitty" baby stage. I think his thighs were twice as big as the girls', they never really had that cute baby fat when they were that age. Ryan is going to the Rodney Carrington concert in Coeur d alene this Thursday and then friday we are serving beer at Hot August Nites again. Another busy weekend for the Aiken family.

Finally...I have my computer back

Denis and Dena Frei
Ryan "asleep"
The boys!
Becky by a creek at Kirkwood
Dena at the homestead at Kirkwood
After going over a month without my computer, I am finally connected with the world again:) Since my last post we have been super busy. We went on our annual "adults only" camping trip up river with the Bremers', Frie's, Weeks', and Heimgartner's. Ryan and Johnny fell off the wave runner going through a pretty big rapid when we were going up. Denis scared the @#($ out of Jenni and Dena when he started floating towards that same rapid with absolutely no power. Somehow he managed to get the jet boat started before they had to go through the rapid backwards. We did a lot of eatin', drinkin', dancin', and just layin aroung. Quite a few of us came home with sun burns, I'm still itching from peeling. The next weekend we went up the river again but this time with Justin Luther and in a bigger jet boat. We didn't quit make it to the dam but I don't think the boys cared because we saw some "flashing" women on a tour boat that went by us. My husband missed about an hour of the ride because he was "asleep" on the bottom of the boat.

In the mean time, the twins are getting bigger and smarter every day. They can tell you what almost every letter in the alphabet is and the sound that most of them make. They will get to see their cousins from southern idaho this weekend so I'll put some pictures of all of them together next week. Here's a couple pictures from the boat trip.

Still no computer

As you can tell by my lack of posts, our computer is still being worked on. I am at my mom's house for the day so I decided to post since I don't know when I will be able to do it again. Last weekend we had a Benefit Poker Tournament for Ryan's friend Josh Burton(Burto) that was killed in a car accident the week before. We raised almost $2,500 between the poker tournament and a small silent auction that we had. We think the family is going to set up a scholarship fund with the money. I included a picture of the banner that was made by Odom and a fire ring donated by Gateway materials. Since then we haven't done a whole lot, I made a little 6x6 album for my mom of pictures from a family photo shoot we had before my dad passed away. I gave it to her for what would have been their 44th anniversary. Ryan and I are looking forward to our "adults only" weekend up river next weekend. We went to the beach yesterday and were able to get the girls to go into the water more. They willingly went in up to their waste without putting up a fuss and actually let us make them float a couple times. Hopefully next time I post I will have good pictures from out camping trip.

Playing catch up with pictures!

Ready for a long post?

Sorry it's been so long, our computer is being worked on so I have to rely on using my mom's or my sister's computer. So much has happened since my last post, I will start at the beginning. Both girls had a day(2 for Jordis) that they were throwing up, both managed to do it in their car seats, not a fun thing to clean up. Luckily Ryan and I did not get it because we had a busy week ahead of us. Friday, June 27 a couple of us girls threw a surprise birthday party for our good friend Cori, which was a blast. The next morning at 7 am I did hair for a wedding up the river at Beamer's, thank god for Chasers anti hangover pills. The next day I threw a baby shower for my sister, she received lots of really neat things. The next weekend was Border Days in G-ville and my 10 year reunion. Unfortunately I didn't bring my camera to the dinner so I don't have any good pictures of it. Like any 10 year reunion, everyone was curious to see what everyone was doing and what they looked like no compared to in highschool. Of course I noticed that all the girls' hair was shorter but one. In the mean time we had our lawn hydroseeded and it is coming so nice and thick, hopefully it will stay that way with our water being restricted now. Unfortunately last week Ryan lost a good friend of his to a car accident in Waha, the funeral is Thurdsday at 2 pm at the Valley View Christian center for any of you that knew Josh Burton. Ryan is busy trying to organize a benefit poker party to raise money for josh's family, it will be this coming sat. We finally got carpet put in ryan's room down stair's so we washed everything that has been piled up since the basement flooded and put back where it belongs. Finally things are starting to come together, we have a front yard and basement that we can enjoy. We are now looking forward to our annual couples camping trip that we do up river with some friends of ours. Hopefully it won't be so long before I post again.