Becky's House

 After the Watson reunion we headed up north to Spokane to stay with Becky for an extra week before the rest of the family came up for the Kerry Pettingill Reunion. We spent one day resting from all the traveling and Becky, Lance, and I stayed up really late two nights having some good conversations about life. Becky bought shirts for the kids to make their own tie dye shirts to wear for the 4th. We took the kids swimming at the public pool a couple times. I ended up forgetting Zander at the house. We all got to the pool and Becky asked me where Zander was. I thought he had gotten in Becky's car, but apparently he didn't get in anyone's car, so Sydney had to go back and grab him. I thought he'd be pretty mad, but he thought it was funny. There's a first time for everything! 

Becky took us to Manito Park so I could see the Japanese garden. We had a picnic and let the kids run around and play. I took Zander and Hannah with me back to the pond where we saw ducks, turtles, frogs, and a fat dragonfly. It was a good week! 

Scott and Sydney showed up on Wednesday. We took the kids to a Fourth of July parade that was really short, haha, but the kids loved it and got lots of candy. Then we had a potluck dinner at the funeral home in Post Falls with some of Lance's employees and their families and did our own fireworks in the parking lot. Lance also gave us a tour of the crematorium and showed us a cadaver that was to be sent to the university.

The kids had a water balloon fight, and played all day long in the backyard. Becky had just gotten their saucer swing hung back up before we got there only to have it broken again with me falling out of it. I landed pretty hard on my left side bruising my ribs and various other parts of my left side head to foot. It really knocked the wind out of me for a few minutes.