Liechty Family: Catch Up

Wow! It's been a crazy summer. I can't believe it's almost over. This is going to be a very long post about all we've been up to.

Savannah went to girls camp the first week in June

Then Matthew, Savy, their friends, and I went to the home school convention.
We had fun! The kids learned dance, went to ice breakers, motivational speakers, etc. I learned a lot and it help motivate me for this coming school year.

Here's our group of teens that went. The picture is fuzzy but they all look like this.

Patrick took the Brady and Tanner fishing while we went to the home school convention.

Then my brother and his family came up to visit.
We had a party at Rachel's house.

They came to visit at my house.

At the party we played games. Tanner and his cousin looked so cute that I couldn't resist

We swam and relaxed.

Matthew thought he could get on this tube without falling in. He just didn't realize that it would float away from the edge. Lucky for him that his cousin came to the rescue rather then Savy because she would have pushed him in.

We had a barbecue and ate lots of food.

Father and Sons!
The boys love going camping with dad because they get to do what they want. No mom to keep them in line. The other boys were burning insects, starting sticks on fire with no dads in sight. my two younger boys were kind of traumatized by the insect burning.

Starting fires without a match.

Matthew contemplating life.

Tanner waking up.

In June we went on a couple field trips for the Biology class that we had
during the year. Here is the trip to Bridal Veil Falls.

The kids enjoying the water at the falls.

Savannah and a couple friends.

Here we all are inspecting a really cool spider web.

Then we celebrated Father Day!

We gave Patrick a cool seat for him to use on his canoe trip with the YM.

Patrick on his Canoe trip with his scout troop.

They're off!

Then we went camping for a few days with some friends of our's. It was nice and relaxing.

Savy and A getting some rest after a very long raft ride. They got very burned!

Brady getting ready to catch something in the water.

Matthew is getting the coals ready for tinfoil dinners.

The boys taking off to go fishing. I sure hope they don't tip over.

More canoeing.

The kids were playing king of the hill here and pushing each other off. Matthew kept winning the girls so Patrick had to join in and get Matthew.

Matthew enjoying the sunset.

Tanner and his cousin at the 4th of July parade.

One month to go!

My parents and family.

Then we went camping with some other friends. We rented two wave runners and had a blast.

The younger kids loved being pulled behind the wave runners with this tube.

Matthew and Jared. What HUNKS!!

Myra and I getting some food ready.

The knee board rope got stuck in the motor. Luckily, we were able to get it out.

Here we go!! Don't worry, I went really slowly. It was hard because I like to get crazy on these.

These three went out together most of the time.

Savannah got her own tent. In the night it blew over and Savannah was sleeping on the side wall. We didn't hear her but our friends did and put some rocks on the tent to keep it from blowing off again.

Matthew's 16th Birthday Party!
We threw him a big pool party at my sister's house.

They had chicken fights!

They chilled in the jacuzzi.

They ate cake, pizza, fruit, ice cream, and cinnamon rolls.

They played volley Ball.

They also had belly flop contest (the boys did anyway) and kept knocking each other off this tube. It was a fun time for all.

The Liechty camp out!
We didn't camp out this time. I couldn't take another camp out and little did I know that I was going to have the baby 5 days later.

This is a game to see who can pull the other off the rock.

The whole Liechty crew!

Patrick was all tuckered out. We hadn't been home on the weekends for the whole summer.

The kids were all playing in the creek and down came a rattle snake. It got out a few feet before it reached the kids and crawled up the bank. Scary!!

A water fight!

Savy and I are making bracelets.

My Birthday.

Savannah went all out and decorated the house in Hawaiian stuff.

Lovely, Matthew.

They gave me a bunch of key chains in hope that, if I have that many on, I won't loose my keys.

They made me a fruit shake and I had to try and drink it through these glasses that Tanner gave me. It was hard.

Banana Splits with lots of chocolate..YUM!

24th of July
We went to my sister's and swam and did fire works.

Here's my beautiful niece and her friend.

The younger kids love to run around the fire work and make all sorts of noise.
And last but not least Brady's birthday.
Brady chose to go to Jump on it!