Career choices?

Jack started preschool after Labor Day....

He is having a great time learning about different jobs in the community. He's been trying a few of them out too. I'm hoping he'll become a chef, for obvious reasons.



OR... He might decide to follow in his daddy's footsteps and check groceries while he's still in school (working on becoming a chef).



Oh, funny story.... When Jack said his prayers the other day, he asked to "please bless the firemen, policemen and CHEFS to be safe."

Cute.

Perfectly Peachy

We love peaches. Can't seem to get enough of them. As a family we have consumed several large boxes of them during the last month and a half. We canned some, froze some, ate pies made out of them, and served them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Even I will admit we're pretty lucky to live so close to lots of sweet, juicy Utah peaches.




In celebration of the fruit, we went to a peach parade...
with large crowds of peach fans like us!


We ate our last peaches of the season yesterday. Crazy, but we're already looking forward to next year's peach crop.

Living the good life at Tapps...

We love to visit Grandma and Grandpa every August. This is their beautiful home on the island.

This is the view from the backyard...

This is Cameron taking a practice swing on his first Tapps Island golf game.

These next two pictures are "like father, like son..."

The kids had fun tubing behind the wave runner.

Jack just wanted to go "FASTER!"

Everybody likes swimming in a pool that is 90 degrees (no kidding!)

It's fun to visit Grandma and Grandpa in such a beautiful place.

THANK YOU!!!!!

What a great Family!

It was great to be together at the McKinney Family Reunion. Here are some family pics..



Chris with cuddly Jacob...


Grandpa, Jack and Lydia...

The two youngest cousins, Quinn and Jacob hangin out...



Cousins at Seaside....

Cousins on a bike ride to Fort Stevens

Some cute pictures of my parents....

all of the cousins-minus Jacob

Sisters!

Mom and Dad

Josh and Melisa

Josh and Amelia

Matt, Jama and Quinn

Stephanie, Zeke, Landon, Mason, Lydia and Jacob...

Thanks for the fun memories everyone!

Just Beachy!

Finally!!! Here are some pictures from our great trip to Cannon Beach a few weeks ago.
These first two pictures were taken at Cape Disappointment (the final stop for Lewis and Clark).

That's the famous Haystack Rock in the background.

When the tide is out, you can discover fun creatures on Haystack rock.

Muscle Man Jack...

We had a blast! We want to go back! We love Cannon Beach.

Tourists at Multnomah Falls, Oregon

We recently returned from a great family vacation to the Oregon Coast and to Lake Tapps, Washington. Our drive to the coast along the Columbia River in Oregon was beautiful. We got to see a lot of it twice, because we had to back track 120 miles to retrieve a mistakenly-thrown-away-retainer from a rest stop garbage can (it was Cameron's lucky day-long story). Anyways, we stopped to enjoy the beauty of Multnomah Falls....



We hiked to the high bridge overlooking the falls and loved the cool mist after a long day in the car.

Then we took off our shoes and put our feet in at the bottom of the falls.

It was a great start to a fun vacation in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

More to come......