Summer Fun

Now that Summer is coming to an end, it is fun to look through all our pictures!  We really have done many fun little trips and activities.  I am sad that our nice relaxing days are almost over but we are also very excited for what 3rd grade will bring for Paige.  This coming school year is going to be great, I just know it!

Father's Day Weekend - Hanging out with cousins from Portland

4th of July in McCall - Payette Lake

Golfing in McCall - Jug Mtn Golf Course

Cousin Beth gave Paige a piano!!!!!

Smith Family Reunion - Swimming w/ Cousins

Camping - Selway River - O'Hara Campground

Playing in the Selway River - Paige and Zak

Swim Lessons - Learning to Dive

Paige is quite the little fish!



We have been doing lots of back to school shopping!  Neither one of us NEED any new clothes but it sure has been fun to get a few new outfits.  Paige definitely has an opinion now.  She critiqued every one of my choices and even said to put a few back, sheesh!  Her new favorite store is Justice.  She is finally able to fit into a size 7 which enables her to shop in this wonderful (so she thinks) store.  Looking back at last year's school pictures, she wore lots of jeans and one particular green skirt.  So far this year, it looks like she will be wearing skirts, lots of skirts!  She is on a mission to find a cute pair of boots to wear with all these skirts, but we may need to wait until Fall.  To find these boots, she has been searching Zappos.com, Target.com and Amazon.com.  Her daddy has created a monster!

Paige's Turns 8 !

Our sweet girl is now 8 years old!  What a blessing Paige is in our lives!  She is such a patient, kind, funny and smart girl.  We laugh with her everyday and love who she is becoming.  Her birthday party was at The Rollaway.  She had 13 friends come to her party and it was neat to see her interact with each one.  She never wants to leave anyone out!  I see her continuing to be this kind, sweet girl throughout her whole life (hopefully!), it is just who she is.



Paige chose the Luau Theme for her party

Doing the Hokey Pokey

Making A Wish!

Actual birthday, opening presents from mommy and daddy

Each year, the celebration of Paige's birthday goes on for a whole week! On her birthday it has become tradition that we go to Silverwood Theme Park.  After a few days of excitement with family visiting, the party and a sleepover, Paige was exhausted.  Sickness tried to set in the morning of her "actual" birthday but didn't last too long.  We were able to make the trip up to Silverwood, but with great sadness, it was pouring down rain once we got there.  Poor Paige!  First sickness, then rain.  We talked her into going to another place called TriplePlay.  This fun place had a waterpark, bowling, laser tag, arcade games, mini golf and much more.  We pretty much did every activity and then finished the day by eating at Red Robin.  All in all, the day turned out to be great!

Memorial Weekend

Annual "Waide Family" Fishing Trip

Dworshak Lake

Paige with, snack #12, waiting for a fish to bite!

Every Memorial Weekend, for as long as I can remember, the Waide family has gone fishing on my dad's boat at Dworshak Lake.  This was Paige's 1st time going on this annual fishing trip (mostly due to Papa's lack of patience). Well, Paige fit in just perfectly and actually caught 3 fish all by herself.  She really enjoyed the trip and took care of her own pole, reeling it in and letting it out.  We were all very proud of her!  Papa said, "she still needs to work on actually touching the fish and putting on her own maggot, but she did great!"  Her mama still doesn't do those things so I told him not to get his hopes up :) 

Uncle Tim, Marge, Paige and Papa Bill

Each year, my Uncle Tim travels over from Bellingham, WA and Marge comes down from Spokane.  Our total fish count was 34 this year.  Quite a bit lower from previous years but we still had lots of fun!

Happy Mother's Day!

 I love being a mom!

 My dad took us all out to a wonderful brunch at the Red Lion.  Curtis and Paige then took me out shopping!  It was such a nice warm day, we then came home and washed cars and planted flowers. 
Only 16 days of school left and then we can enjoy more relaxing days like these!

A Little Bit Of Sunshine .......

makes for a good time!  We had 60 degree weather yesterday.  The warm sunshine felt so good!  The neighborhood came alive and the park quickly filled with kids!  Of course today is cloudy and dark, but just one day of sunshine and warmth gives our moods that little boost we need.

We are anxious for the time change this next weekend.  One more hour of daylight is sure welcome around here.  I am hopeful that it will jumpstart my greatly needed workout routine :) 

Happy "Almost" Spring!

Reptile Man

Paige's school had a new assembly last night.  He is called the Reptile Man!  400 people showed up last night and it was a huge hit with all the adults and kids.

Lots of laughter, screams and even a few tears from little ones!

In the very end, Paige gathered up enough courage to have her picture taken with Lucy the Alligator.

I wanted to show some bravery for my daughter so I participated, too!

Of course, Curtis had no fear and hopped right in there.

Happy New Year!

We had a fabulous Christmas with all of our family!  Paige is loved so much by everyone!  It is still a struggle for me not having my grandparents with us.  Paige never got to experience Christmas Eve at my Grandma Edna's.  Those memories will always be held near and dear to my heart.  Growing up, Christmas and/or Thanksgiving were always at my Grandpa Tom and Grandma Mary's house.  Hopefully Paige will keep those memories with her forever!

Christmas Morning!
Santa brought Paige her 1st pair of skates!

These last two years we have traveled to Aunt Heidi's house to celebrate Christmas with the Fryer side.  Paige loves traveling to her aunt Heid's.  Maybe we have created a new Christmas tradtition!

These last few years, it really has been fun making our own family traditions!  For the first time ever we had mom and dad to our house for Christmas dinner.  With great success, I made my first prime rib dinner!

Mom and I dressed baby Eli up in this adorable Santa suit and took lots of pictures!

We just returned from McCall.  For the last several years, Curtis has liked to spend his birthday and New Year's in McCall.  This year was a bit different for us as there wasn't any snow!  The first two days it rained and rained.  The ski hill wasn't able to open until Dec 30 due to lack of snow!  We usually get 3-4 days of skiing in and this year we got in "2 hours" of skiing.  We look forward to this vacation every year.  Not much could ruin this trip, not even the rain!  I enjoyed just sitting by the fire reading my book and watching these two dance along with the Wii!

Great fun!  Dancing to Just Dance 3 on the Wii