McCrew: August Summed Up

We had a very busy August.

At the end of July at our family birthday party we crowned ourselves a queen. This is T.T., Brook's step-son. T.T. asked Brook to paint a motorcycle on is forehead, Brook is a very good artist but I don't think this is a motorcycle. It's a good thing T.T. has a good sense of humor. The next day he had to go to church with the outline of the crown because he got too much sun the day before.

In the spirit of competition the boys decided to see who could eat half a pie first. Brook needed to take his skirt off, he was too scared to get his new shirt dirty so he came in dead last. I think he may have tied with his sister Lowell.

Big D put forth a good effort but came up short. I just hope he keeps it all down because I don't want to clean it up.

Next we had a watermelon seed spitting contest.

Yes Bud has horns, he also had a great spit.

As you can tell from the angle of the camera Big D is aiming his spit at me. It was a good strategy because he almost won. The guy aiming at his mother-in-law took the prize though, can you blame him.

The next weekend our whole family traveled to Bear Lake for a family reunion with Papa Guy and Grandma Honey. The kids enjoyed some smores.

Believe it or not this is how the kids road down to the water. They loved this four wheeler.

Big D never turned anyone for a ride he just gave them one rule: they had to catch him first.

We went back down to the water after dinner. We were die hards for fun. Auntie Ann was done with water volleyball so she got to watch the nieces and nephews.

We played volleyball until we couldn't see the ball anymore. Next year we vowed to bring a glow in the dark ball.

I don't think the kidies had as much fun as the adults, they were freezing and headed back to camp without us.

Poor Kinnzi probably wants to turn us into to PETA for making her put up with that much sand. She hated it! But I think she hated the water even more. Papa Guy would throw frisbees in the water for his dog Dottie (a Polmeranian the same size as Kinnzi) and Kinnzi would run as fast as she could, right to the edge of the water and then stop. I think she may suffer from princess syndrome.

Grandma Honey sewed all these cool pirate hats for the kids. Honey is truly a pirate at heart.

When the kids go out to her house to stay they don't have to brush their hair because pirates don't do that. The kids love it.

After Bear Lake we got together at Brook and Andy's for a BBQ/water party. I often has to ask who the biggest kid at the party is.

It certainly isn't this beauty. This is the newest member of our family, Rae Rae. She did qualify for the cutest one at the party.

It seemes like every time these guys get together it turns into a competition.

I think the only thing they were really competing for is who is the biggest goof, and they all tied.

After the BBQ we went to another family reunion, not in the same day. Here is my dad with all of his siblings. From left to right: Papa Guy, Becky, Jeff, Lynette, and Mike. What a handsome family! The only one missing was the youngest brother, Rob.

We did 4H for the first time this summer. Beaner and Bud made pillow cases and stitched their names on them, I had to hurry and throw one together for Bear because he was feeling left out. Bug sewed PJ bottoms and I sewed her the top. She got to model it in the county fair. She got a blue ribbon on it so now she gets to model her outfit at the state fair next month. She was nervous but she did great.

After all that hard work we needed some relaxing time so we went boating. This was Bud's first time jumping off the boat since the rafting incident in Montana. I was so proud of him. He wanted to show us that he could do a cannonball.

The girls are turning into little show offs.

Beaner was trying to get her little friend, Hailey, to losen up a bit. One second she'd say she was having fun and the next she'd have a huge scrowl on her face. Some times it's hard for people to realize that if they fall off the tube they are just landing in the water, the soft water. Beaner is usually my timid one but I think she stood up before Bug did.

The kids figured out what to do with all those boxes after I unpacked. They made an apartment building. Beaner is on the top, then its Bug, both boys are in the next, and in the bottom is Kinnzi.