In between

In between Island park.  I spend time at home preparing food, cleaning, and doing laundry for the next trip North. I also try to squeeze in a little yard maintenance.  

I have also started a project of digitizing all my scrap books, organizing picture and videos, and deep cleaning.  

This spring/ summer the boys and I have completed the high school credits they need for digital literacy, government, and health.  Briggs and I are also 3/4 of the way done with Spanish 3 this summer.  

The sun will come out tomorrow...

Ilas school decided to finish up the play "Annie" that they never had the chance to perform this spring.  Instead of doing a live show they recoreded it in blocks.  We are still waiting to see the complete show.  Ila was a servant for Mr Warbucks and she was also a New York City person.  
Below are a coupled of pictures of the cabin.

What to do.

We have had many wood chopping contest this year.  The boys have come home many times from island park so sore they could hardly move.  Adam still holds the record for the fastest at chopping a tree down.



We have had different experiences on the weekends when we have been in island park.  This particular weekend we rented a cabin for the Jessop family.  Adams friend Brian came up to help do some excavating at the cabin and he brought his family for a mini vacation also.  Ila was in heaven because they have a 4 month old baby.


I have learned a lot about cooking outside this summer.  I have had to sometimes cook and prepare meals for many people and sometimes just for my family.
We tried out this new treat of Marshmallows, chocolate and peanut butter chips, caramel, waffle cones, fruit and after it is all cooked some whip cream on top.

One weekend Adam took the kids to Herramin state park to go horse back riding.  I stayed back because my knee and hip don't do well on horses and then I also had some free time to do some deep cleaning in the camping trailer.  

 One weekend we took the kids and had them float a portion of the snake river.

The one who is enjoying this camping each weekend/ week the most is our dog Buddy.  I think he is going to die this winter when he is stuck at home again.

This summer

Beautiful Yellowstone. 

This summer will go down in the books as a very unique year and its not just because of the Covid virus scare.  For the past 6 years we have spent a week in Island park Idaho every summer for vacation.  It is a beautiful place and we have had a lot of fun.  Since the very first year we went up there we decided we needed to find a way to build a cabin there for our family.  After years of planning and saving we have finally had the opportunity to make that dream a reality.  After many hours of work and a lot of money we realized it would be in the best interest of our family and finances to sale this cabin after it is completed and try to build again.  The market is amazing and with Adams connections, skill and knowledge he has the ability to make money in this little venture.  

 Because the weather is difficult to work around and the financial benefit of completing the cabin quickly will benefit us we have worked a lot this summer.  We have spent nearly every weekend in island park since Memorial Day.  Actually Adam has only been home one weekend since Memorial Day.  He has also spent many weeks up there but since Avram is involved in football with the high school and the boys are both mowing lawns this summer for work I have had to stay around Bountiful a little more than Adam.
It has actually be amazing having so much time camping with the family this summer.  We have also squeezed in some fun several days while up there.

This is Ila posing on Briggs Bike.

 Briggs is cruising dow this hill on Adams dirt bike.

 Avram is riding Adams bike this evening because he has had problems with his dirt bike this summer.

Briggs is on his own bike.

Briggs is playing a little on Ilas 4 wheeler.