Happy Birthday America!

Our weekend started out with Mike traveling all week and returning late Friday afternoon. I took it upon myself to get our boat from storage and bring it home, the first time for me doing this without Mike. Baby steps for this boat owner. 

We drove to Missoula and spent the night in our camper at the truck stop.  It was a fun ride for Luke and Daddy, it looks like! 

These boys were READY to get in the water and "on the lake" as Josh calls it.  

We got to Beyond Hope campground and got our trailer settled, then found our friends.  Kyler quickly jumped on our boat and we went to do fun water stuff.  We jumped off the boat to cool off, and it became a fun time.  The boys loved swimming around and got really brave. 

Love these crazy boys!

Some of the fantastic diving we saw!

Luke decided to surf a bit, which was fun to watch.  He didn't surf much last year, so it was fun to see him learn and love it!

He's at the dropping the rope/carving stage. 

He still loves wake boarding though! The sunset rides were so much fun!

We love watching him jump!  He even tried to do his elusive grab, but didn't quite get it this weekend. 

Josh was surfing for a crowd of boys.  We had Fabe, Luke, Taden (a new friend, his dad is a pro wakeboarder!), and Kyler. 

Luke and Kyler dominated the little two-seater tube.  They had such a fun ride! Kyler did a crazy high launch...he must have been 6' off the ground and head over feet!  He loved it, though! 

Caden's family has this cool pad that is rigid, so it's like having a floating island.  So much fun!  The day started out super windy, so we told the kids if they helped us get it set up, we'd let them play on it until the wind calmed down.  Look at this team work!  

Ashtyn turned 14 on Monday, and had a great surfing day!  

Josh was working on transferring from his regular side to his switch side, which is a very cool trick.  Eric, Taden's dad, was helping him.  This is Josh "mastering" riding switch so that once he got over the wave he would know what to do on the wrong side.  We're smiling because he's killing it over there! 

Our baseball stadium.  We have a bunch of great dads who will play baseball into the dark with their kids. 

On Tuesday, Lisa gave everyone colorful hair.  Josh was so excited to have a red/blue mohawk! 

This is the Krazy Crew in all their glory!

Luke had the tallest mohawk!

This is most of the kids.  Back row left to right, Ady, Ashtyn, Kyler, Luke, Gabe, Josh. Front row, Daejah, Kadence, Emery, Connor, and Ty.  We're missing Taden, Berlin, and Landon.  

Our tough guy!

Surfing with the mohawk! 

Kyler was so concerned about falling and wrecking his mohawk. He fell twice but kept his head above water, like a champ!

Luke surfed with his mohawk and it lasted a while, too! 

Later in the day we decided to do a double-boat Bowl for one brave surfer.  We drove our boats next to each other and made a monster wave.  It didn't work how we planned, but it was fun to watch!

This is Ben's boat...just like ours but 1 foot longer and white.  

We did another swimming break, and this time Connor got brave enough to jump in.  Josh was so cute with him, asking him to swim a little further each time, and doing hugs in the water.

This is our friend Travis' boat.  It goes so fast!  

Josh got to try Taden's surf board, and he thought it was so fun he decided to try to body surf.  He figured it out and rode the wave a while!  I was very impressed. 

Who knows what this boy is up to.  He's a goof ball and he makes me happy. 

Fourth of July garb...

Mike is so fun to watch surf. He's great! 

We boated over to Sandpoint to watch fireworks. It was about 1/2 hour boat ride, and well worth it!

Pretty sunset as we waited for dark. 

These two are good buds. 

Our boat loaded up with boys (and 2 dads).  It's family glue alright!