Thank heaven they invented DVD players in the Car! What a life saver!
Then we hit the road and thought everything was great. I was driving the van, and David was in the truck. Out of the blue, the truck died. Just stopped going and wouldn't go anymore just outside of Nampa, ID. We felt like it was deja vu of our experience in Baker, OR a few years back. We had to have a tow company come and get the truck and tow it to a shop. At this point it was Friday night at 7pm. The shop was closed and we figured there was no way we would be seen on sat, so we left the truck and hopped in the van and drove back to Utah. David talked to the guy at the shop and our feelings were right, they can't get to it until Monday. So even though we rolled in at 2 am, we are glad to we decided not to stay the night. Mom and Dad will hopefully be able to pick it up on their way through this next week and bring it the rest of the way.
So today we are busy getting things unpacked, picking up, watering the yard, mowing the grass, and cleaning this. .. 
The van is filthy. No more eating in the van now that we aren't vacationing. Too many crumbs!
We are glad to be back, but it is sooo hot! We are missing the pool already!
Just thought I would post a picture of Luke and Paul playing video games. This is where they hung out a lot of the time at Chelan.
I also just had to post this picture of Elizabeth. She wore her self out!
Our time in Chelan is coming to a close as we take off tomorrow morning to head back to Utah and prepare for Julia to come next week and our family reunion in July. It has been wonderful. Our first week was fun with everyone here. I enjoyed getting up and exercising with Mom every morning. David enjoyed going golfing with Kurt several times. And of course pool time, beach time, reading time, card games, and a lot of video game time for the kids as well. 
Yard work is never ending. I have been out weeding every day to try and get the yard under control. I don't know if it is ever going to happen, but I am making progress. There is such a network of weeds that it is difficult to get all of them up.
Both of the cakes. Eliza didn't have any candles so we used these big ones. Better than nothing, but they looked pretty funny. Eliza had dropped Cortt's cake, but it fared much better than Kennedy's did. 
Kennedy really likes her cousin, Cortt. She just wasn't going to be happy until we had some sort of celebration for their birthdays. 
We have spent a fair amount of time at the ball park as well. Luke has done well and so far his team is 3-1. His last game was his best so far. He was 3 for 3 with two doubles and a single, and 3 rbis. He played first base most of the game. Had one really nice play there as well. 
Unfortunately, I don't have a "before" picture of the bathroom. But the tile was ugly brown around the shower as well as the vanily. This is the ugly tile in our kitchen (hopefully a remodel at some point down the road), which is similar to the old tile that was in our bathroom.
Now if we could only do something about this. .. .
