The Gebows: July 2009

My sis and I had the kids pictures taken when she was in town earlier in the month. It was a little hectic trying to get a 5 year old, 3 year old & 4 month old to cooperate at the same time, so I was a little nervous on how they would turn out, well... The photos turned out so good! I can't wait to blow a couple of them up!
My sis has the ones of Noah alone, so I can't post any of them..but I'm sure they are just as cute!
The girl who took them went to HS with my sis..she is soo good! Highly recommended! www.kerryannphotography.com

I love this one down below. The kids were getting antsy so I promised them Mcdonalds if they were good...this was Ari really really wanting Mcd's and trying to convince D to smile good!

We spent this last week at Lake Chelan with Jessica & Greg. We had soo much fun, Chelan is even better than I remember as a kid! The kids had a blast, and Ari conquered some major water fears...she started jumping off the side of the pool, swimming around (in her life jacket) alone in the pool, dunking her head a couple times, and even TUBING! I'm sure most people who know my little scared girl are just as shocked to hear this as I was to see it! She actually went twice! D was just as awesome. Jon and him actually had a little "crash" off the tube and went under the water, as D tells the story "I did a big crash and went under the water just like a FISH". Neither of the kids barely left the water.
The weather was perfect and our condo was perfect and the company was perfect! We had friends up most of the week and I think our last night was the only night it was just the two families! Wayde even came up with his boat, even though he had a broken arm and couldn't get in the water..what a trooper! We ate really good food, and the boys (well Greg really) did most of the cooking which is just an extra bonus for me!
The trip wasn't entirely injury free...while Jon and Greg were playing tennis early on in the week, Greg tore his big muscle in his calf. Huge bummer, but luckily he decided that staying off your feet in Chelan is better than staying off your feet at home! Darren also decided to spray some sun screen DIRECTLY into his eyes from about 1 inch away, poor guy had red swollen eyes for a while.
I won't bore you with any more words, here's the good stuff:

This is how I spent most of my days...in the pool with the kiddos. Jessica's brother Juan came up with his little boy Jackson, who is 5. The kids had a blast with him, he is the cannon ball king!