We made it safely home from another great summer vacation with our fellow WACKers. You may be wondering why we call our summer vacation WACK. It was an acronym made up by my dear husband and stands for Water And Cooking with Kevin. Water because our vacations are always on the water and involve water sports. Cooking because we share the responsibilities of cooking all the meals and there is always plenty of food. Kevin is an imaginary character created mainly to make the acronym really cool but also so we would have someone to blame things on since we usually manage to have some minor mishap each year. The minor mishap for our family this year would be the stomach bug that hit Alaina the third day, Lila the last day, and Rylan as we made it back to Longview. (Thanks a lot Kevin). That minor mishap could not outweigh all the fun we had with our friends. Our week at a beautiful cabin in Donnelly, Idaho consisted of:
a nature hike and lots of bug catching
time at the beach playing in the sand and splashing in the water
and relaxing at the cabin with friends.
One thing that made this years WACK different from past years is that the kids now outnumber the adults. Everyone's having babies! It was great to meet all the newest additions to the families and watch them play together. It was a great week!
The last days of summer have been beautiful here in Cathlamet. We took a walk the other night on the wildlife reserve and had to take some pictures of God's beautiful creation. 
Today we took the youth group out to the beach for some swimming and tubing out on the river. The girls were quite enthused to find blackberries growing on the beach we were at. They spent at least an hour picking as many berries as they could reach. They ate quite a few as well. 
We didn't have anything to put the berries in so we used some paper plates left over from our lunch. We did have a few casualties on the boat ride back but I think enough survived to make some jam and maybe even a pie! 
