Huckleberry Picking

We have recently gone out huckleberry picking and it has been really fun. The kids love the 4 wheeling ride up to were we pick and they have a lot of fun eating the huckleberries and exploring around, Charlie even liked to eat them.

This is Darin and the kids up just a little further where we pick huckleberries at.

The kids and I.

This was the first time we went and Charlie feel asleep on the ride up.

Baylee and I picking. She liked to help bring the bucket back and forth from Dad to Mom.

This is the second Huckleberry pie I made this week and I also made 2 pumpkin pies too. Darin really likes pie so I went a little crazy on doing them. What is sad is that they are all gone. I did give one pumpkin pie to my Dad for his birthday, and we have shared with friends that have dropped by, but the majority of the pies were eaten by Darin.

P.S. I was really excited about the huckleberry pie because I have never made one before. I am just happy that it turned out because it takes a lot of huckleberries to make one.

Hayden View Triathlon

JoAnn and I right before the swim.

Me finishing the bike.

Me starting the run.
Ben Tran, Charlie, myself, and Melanie Patterson
My kids and I right after I crossed the finish line

So this year I did my second sprint triathlon which is a 1/2 mi. swim, 10.2 mi. bike, and a 4 mi. run. I did it all in 1hr and 25min. The morning was starting out to be really cloudy and a bit chilly. The water was really choppy but wasn't as cold as I thought it would be. My chain fell off on the bike and got tangled up pretty bad and thank goodness some guy stopped his race to help me because I really didn't know how to fix it. I wish I knew his name so I could thank him because I thought that I was done for the race. For the run I had a 7 and 1/2 min pace for it. I am really proud and excited about finishing and my time. Sorry for the bragging but I am just really proud of myself and feel very accomplished and on a little bit of a high still from the race. I wouldn't have done it this year if my sister JoAnn hadn't asked me to, and since it was her first I couldn't let her do it by herself. I am really glad that we did this together.
Here is the time of everyone else: JoAnn Isaksen was 1hr44min. , Melanie Patterson was 1hr16min., and Ben Tran was 1hr15min. We all had fun and cheered each other on.

I LOVE CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!

Charlie definitely gets this from me. I love chocolate. This is him eating a doughnut in the morning. Darin brought home some doughnuts and I was getting ready to feed Charlie some baby food, so in the mean time of preparing it Darin tossed over some chocolate doughnut to him and needless to say he didn't want much to do with the food I brought over to him.

He was lovin every bit of it. He was searching like crazy to make sure he got everything.

I love how the chocolate is glistening off of his stomach.

4th of July and Family Reunion

All the kids watching the fireworks.

Baylee and Bryson being cute together

Darin and the kids watching the fireworks.

Baylee is into making crazy faces when pictures are being taken and so this was our picture together.

It was a really fun 4th and we really enjoyed being around family. Thanks to my brother Matt and his family for having everyone over and the amazing fireworks. It was a blast.

Family Reunion Pictures

This is the original 11.

The whole family we are missing a couple but the majority are here.

Grandma and Grandpa with the grand kids. A few are missing but like I said the majority are here.

The Franks

We had the Wallace family reunion during the fourth of July week. It was a lot of fun being with all me brothers and sisters. My parents have 27 grandchildren and we have a grand total of 49 people in the Wallace bunch. It gets harder and harder to have the whole family around and so we had to take advantage of having the majority home and take some pictures.

Baylee's first stitches

Baylee was out with Darin getting wood and they were on the 4 wheeler and went over a bump and she smacked her mouth down into front of it. She was bleeding pretty bad I guess. She went through her lip a little but the inside was pretty bad. Darin was about a half an hour away from Pinehurst and she was bleeding really good so I told him to take her to Kellogg to that hospital because I didn't was he to wait 45 minutes more to Coeur d'Alene. I drove out to Kellogg and she got her first stitch in her mouth. She has already taken it out on her own though now but it was quite an eventful day, and we are going to be having family pictures taken next week.

Darins new hobby.

Darin loves to be in the woods. So this is a really good excuse for him to get out. We had to get a picture of this because I think that it took a lot of work to squeze everything in. He loves to get wood and he keeps going out to get more wood even though we have enough for two winters worth he keeps going every spare moment he has.