Self Portrait Khi Style (july)

Story Time with TayTay

Mermaid Princess (july)

Giraffe Dress in July

But why can't I feed the dog a million times a day?

See my new necklace?

Khi Stylin' n Profilin'

Charbonneau

Ahhh, sun, bare feet, sand...

Our crazy flippin' dog was with us of course.

We ended up being down at the water all day every day.

Not getting back to the campsite until 7 or 8!

A little innertube frisbee anyone?

Playdoh to occupy while mom n dad play some Settlers.

It worked too, and then Khi ASKED to go to bed!!

Seriously, gotta love camping!

Met a great couple we'd like to adopt as some new grandparents who were so kind to take us out on the river in their boat! So fun.

We stopped a few times to swim and laze around in the water...it was heavenly.

Caroline is my kind of gal. Any grandma that is still all about jumping in the water and tubing is pretty cool if you ask me!

Coerced Rob into the water...not an aquatic individual he'd tell you.

Hehe, look at his face...

Finally getting relaxed.

LOVE the campfire. Except for the night I stayed up by myself reading by the fire and I hear a noise that I think is Buster our dog, but I was wrong. I turn around after I discover Buster is under my feet to the hugest raccoon I've ever seen. Seriously, who knew? That thing was on steroids and not bothered by me in the least. I was more worried about it getting into a fight with the dog, but my whimpy dog wasn't even considering breathing at that point. My knight had to come save us and scare it away.

Tay thought getting to handle the flashlight was the coolest thing ever.

Last night...zonked out together, how cute is that?

Meanwhile we were up playing some cards and first the sprinklers decide to not behave as they had the previous 4 nights and start spraying all over our stuff...food, fire, tent, etc. Nice. I ran out, got soaked, and tried my best to readjust them....then as we get settled back into our game we hear a noise...

look over and a big fat skunk is sitting there looking at us like he wants us to deal him in or something.

Needless to say, I was worried about Rob scaring it away. Luckily, he scooted away and on that note I opted to wrap up our final night and hit the tent.

All in all, another great camping trip for the Wallace's.

P.S. Camping 6 months preggo is EXHAUSTING!

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Stehekin n' Home

We did it! We arrived in Stehekin.

I was pretty excited as I'd only heard there was something at the end of the lake, but never knew what exactly.

Well, what is: Stehekin, a small unincorporated community in Chelan County, Washington.

I believe the population is just under a hundred people. You can only get there by boat or plane. And near here is the Northwest's deepest gorge. Cool huh? It's in the lake and therefore partially covered in water, but a claim to fame is a claim to fame! ;)

We got on this cute red bus and took a whirlwind look around. Seriously, saw Stehekin in under an hour. Would really like to go back...maybe for our anniversiary one year?

Could have stayed a few more hours but wasn't feeling up to taking the "slow boat" back with the kids.

HOT 'n tired.

The school house!

One teacher and all students K-8.

After that they go live with family/friends in town...ie, no high school here.

The community center.

Where's Waldo?

Who's Waldo? Baaaaaaah.

Got back to the condo, mom/dad/Alex headed back to the Tri-Cities, the kids and I stayed one more night.

We went swimming and hung out and enjoyed a fire in the fireplace while the best lightening show I've seen in years occured outside our window. Cool!

....while I was packing.

...while I was driving home.