A crisp chilly afternoon. Austin playing with our new dog Tank, a two year old yellow lab. Tank is alot like our first Chocolate Lab - Jake, he loves to chase after tennis balls and then go find a pool or puddle of water and lay in it. It is so funny. Dallas will hit a tennis ball with the bat, Tank will go and fetch it and then on the way back go for a swim!

Austin watched Tank run through the puddle, so he needed to do the same! Keep in mind it is about 40 degrees out!

WOOPS... he tripped and fell.

Tank - the lab Molly - the hound dog

Miss Paislee

TUBBY TIME

Miss P and all her chubbyness !!

Little sis in big brothers chair

Tis the season... for cutting wood! Dallas and a friend went out and cut 5 cords of wood this year ( a cord of wood is ) Now we just have to split and stack it. I'm so excited!! Austin helping G-Ma Jenkinson.

Austin taking a break...

on some bricks

All done for the day. Dallas started a fire and we roasted hot dogs and marshmellows! See the pile in the back thats just about half of the wood and it doesn't even give it justice.

Fish

I saw this on my cousin Michelle's blog and thought it was so cute. Feed the fish by moving the mouse and clicking it inside their little fish tank. If you see an orange dot after clicking then you feed them!! Have fun.

random pics and funny stories

Just thought I would post some random pictures of the kids that I have taken in the last two days! Paislee is growing up- she has two bottom teeth and one that I can barely feel on the top. She is starting to sit up without falling over... granted she is still leaning forward and not completly up straight, but still she is doing it! She rolls every where, in fact the other morning I laid her on her blanket and left the room for a couple of minutes. When I came back in she was no where in site! I called out her name, I heard some noises coming from under a table the is up against the wall in the t.v. room. So I got down and looked under. She just gave me a big smile! She had rolled completly under the table and couldn't go anywhere else! Austin , Austin , Austin! Where do I begin, he is such an active little man that keeps us laughing ALL the time. He is potty training... some days are better than others, but he is doing it. When he has to go, he strips down, runs into the bathroom and sits on the potty. The other day, he went pee, and to celebrate he clapped his hands, gave a thumbs up follow by a YeeHaw! I laughed so hard I almost had to go to the bathroom! Currently he is OBSESSED with Bambi, the movie. He watches it everyday, sometimes 5 times a day. Grandma jenks and I have tried to get him to watch other shows, but nope, it has to be Bambi. He is now to the point that he can recite a line that is about to come up. He will also go around the house saying, " ELK.... shoot, Elk" is he his father's son or what! Every once and while I will " mooother, Moother" coming out of his room, just like young Bambi does when he is calling for his mom! In fact we have dragged out a little t.v. with a vcr, put it in his room so that when he wants to watch his movie he can go in there and watch it. He will, all by himself. Dallas even built him a little table that he can sit at. Dallas and I were watching a t.v show the other night, called "Dirty Jobs" we started laughing. Out of nowhere, Austin comes running in, stands in front of us with his hands 0n his hips. Looks at us and says " NICE" and nodds his head! Dallas and I just looked at eachother and laughed. What a kid we have. Never a dull moment in the Jenkinson house!

My new bedroom

Welcome to my new room... its beautiful!

This is what you see when you first walk in

front view of my dresser, cute shoes and burp rags

Then to your right is my bed and ME!! HI

So dad and mom have been working very hard on my bedroom. Their bedroom is so big that they decided to put a wall up which would make a new little room... just perfect for me! So dad built a two small walls, mud and taped the dry wall. Then it was time for the primer paint... this is where the fun began! NOT... Mom went to the store and bought all the paint needed for my room, she came home and put two coats of white primer on the new walls. The next day, dad started the stripes that would go behind my crib, but when he went to pull the tape off.... the paint went with it! What a nightmare, all the paint peeled with the tape, we couldn't believe it. So mom scraped off the two walls and then dad started all over because it destroyed the mud and tape job. Through out the next week between mom's new work schedule and Dad starting school, my room got done. My brother Austin also got a new room.... we ALL couldn't be happier. Especially mom and dad cause they are kid free for the first time in two years!!

Fun in the Sunflowers

First I'd like to thank Carly for providing these pages... I stole them from her blog!! So thanks Car.
While down at my parents, mom, carly and I decided to take advantage of the sunflower patch at the neighbors. It was so much fun, but lots of work to try and get the kids to participate!

Of course there was a hose close by with a leak, which Austin and Avie found. MUD - MUD - MUD

6 months old.

The Jenkinson-Keller reunion

Family reunion on the Jenkinson side. We spent 4 days in North Bend- near Seattle, at the end of July. We were busy every day... go go go. We got there on a Wednesday. Thursday we all went to lake Sammamish to go boating and play on the beach. It was a blast. Cousins - Scott and Sue McCreedie ( who have 5 kids) brought their boat and inner tubes to pull behind the boat. They made about 5 trips back and forth to the beach to load up 8 people and go out. Mean while back at the beach, we had pizza, watermelon, played in the water and on the swing -play ground area. Oh, and the best part to this whole trip... It was record breaking HOT in Seattle. Wednesday was 107 degrees Thursday was right around 100 , come sunday I think it cooled off to about 90! It was so hot that we stripped Paislee down to her diaper and took her for a swim! She loved the water.

Austin, Linley, Kasey and I took the last boat ride out for the day. Austin fell asleep after about 5 mins, which was the perfect opportunity for me to go tubing! Holy Cow was it a blast.... it has been about 4 years since I have been tubing... just like riding a bike!!
We stopped for a while and went swimming around the boat. Even Austin jumped off the front of the boat down into the water. I couldn't believe it... he loved it, but I got tierd very quickly catching him and then pushing him up the ladder to Linley who would then pull him up the rest of the way, just to have him jump off again.

Day 2 was a day at the "lazy" river = Snoqulamie river. It was so beautiful, right out of a movie- A river runs through it. The water was FREEZING cold, but once you were numb it was great! I couldn't believe how deep it was in some spots. In fact, some of the kids were jumping from the rocks in to the water! Then Dallas, Linley and Kasey went for a walk up the river to check things out... a while later they came back to tell us about waterfalls that they had seen. So a group of us went to check it out. WOW... is all I have to say.
There was a observation deck that over look the lower-first set of falls. Then Dallas decided that it would be cool to go over the railing and stand on the rocks! Then came the Lee's... and over they went, along with Kasey, and cousins Micheal and Minta. James, Shane and Tony Lee brought their goggles and flippers to go diving and see what they could see! Once they were done at those falls they all decided to climb up the falls to the second level. So Linda, Linley, Lisa, Becca, Katie, Josh, Austin, Paislee and I found an "out of the water" trail ( the road) and walked up to met them at the top of the falls. The top was even more amazing. There was several little falls and then a large pool, were our group and several others were diving and flipping into the water. It was great to sit there and watch every one show off!

The last day of adventure, we went to Rattlesnake Lake. It was a big lake surrounded by forest, old stumps coming out of the water, and a huge rock cliff that over looked the lake. If you looked really close or with a camera with a great zoom- you could see hikers up on the ridge! The lake was perfect for canoeing and swimming . We had a perfect shady spot under some trees that allowed us to watch the swimmers in comfort!

Just some fun snap shots through out the reunion ...