Hannah is officially 9 years old.  She was suppose to just have one friend over for this birthday.  She was blessed to end up with 3 friends to join her while she celebrated.  They played and ran around for hours.  They decorated a butterfly cake and then had ice cream with it.  They dressed up in "Karate Robes" and kicked and chopped at a pinata.  It was a fun day of giggles.  What a wonderful life to have friends to celebrate with.  We didn't get a picture of Sam, she came later in the day.

Hannah is in the middle.  Love these Karate Robes.

That is a fancy cake. 

The 3 H's.  Haily, Hannah, and Hannah.  All are 9 right now.  Not for long.

Haily's birthday is coming up. 

Daniel had violin camp this week in McCall.  Hannah's friend Haily came with Daniel, Hannah, and I.  We stayed in our camper at the Pilgrim's Cove Camp.  While Daniel played his violin all day with different groups of 4 stringed instruments, Hannah and Haily played in the lake.  We had canoes and kayaks that we could use at any time.  The girls kayaked and fished a lot.  They also got in a lot of swimming.  It was in the high 80's each day. 

Looking for minnows.

Running on the dock and jumping in the lake.

Testing the water.

Haily and Hannah on the dock.

Haily practicing surfing.

Hannah surfing.

Hannah doing a flip off the deck.

Hannah and Haily jumping off the deck.

Daniel had time to do a flip.

Hannah, Haily, and me going out for a canoe ride.

The girls made a friend.  Haily, Casha, and Hannah on a kayak.

Hannah and Haily looking for minnows.  The lake is so clear.

The Famous Jana Jae, who led the camp is center front with black shirt and black hair. 

Daniel is in the top row with a yellow shirt.  This was his final concert that week.  They had a concert each day.

This is a group picture, of everyone that participated in the camp. 

Haily skating.

The girls went ice skating during Daniel's concert.  The concert was two blocks away from

the ice rink.  They are great ice skaters.  It was Hannah's first time.  I think all of that

roller blading really helped.

Hannah on the ice.

They fished for 5 hours one day and caught nothing.  They were so determined. 

The next day the camp host's son caught a carp that was over a foot long, on our pole. 

He was going to throw it back in, "It is a trash eating fish."  The girls asked for it.

We took it back to camp.  I have not gutted a fish in over 20 years.  That was my dad and

brother's job.  While cutting this fish open, the girls were screeching, and all I was thinking was

"I hope I can get the fish smell out of my watermelon cutting board."  We then fried it up with a stick

of butter in a skillet on the stove in the camper.  Now I am hoping I can get the fish smell out of the camper

before Roger comes to spend the night, Saturday.  The girls ate every bit of that fish.  They had to sift through

all the bones, it is a very boney fish.  They loved the experience but decided if they caught another fish that they

would throw it back.  PHEW!!!

Haily, Hannah, and Shawn with the fish he caught.

Not bad.  Did I mention that the big knife was as sharp as a butter knife.  Had to use the small one.

Betty Hopper working with Daniel and his new friend Sam.  They were the only

kids at the classical camp. Mrs. Hopper is in her 80's.  She walked up and down

the hills from building to building and played in all the groups.  She has won many fiddle contests and

graduated from Jillard.  Very talented and so very sweet.  All five of her children were at the camp,

including her daughter Jana Jae. 

Daniel loved the camp and wants to go next year. He was invited to stay for fiddle camp.

There were more kids at fiddle camp.

Daniel is in the middle.

Hannah & Haily Skating.  Not bad for the first time on ice.  Haily thinks it was her 2nd time to skate.

  Roger drove my motorcycle up on Saturday to join us.  We went on a kayak ride around the cove.

Sunday morning, we were planning on packing up and going into town to church.  Well, Roger moved the

suburban into place to hook it up.  He jumped out to see how far he needed to back up. When he went to

start the suburban, nothing happened.  We looked under the hood and jiggled the wires on the battery and the doors locked.  The front door was still open, so he backed up the suburban, threw the keys on the dash, shut the door, hooked up the camper, went to drive it out of the spot, and all the doors were locked.  Weird.  The keys were in the car.  I called my sister, who was at her church, to see if she would run our house key over to our neighbor's house, Haily's mom, and they could get our extra suburban keys out of the house and bring them up.  Haily's mom and nanna drove up to McCall to bring our keys to us.  They took Haily out to eat and home.  Wasn't that sweet of my sister and Haily's mom and nanna?  

McCall has a new water fountain.  Fun!