Italian Fair

Sydney, complete with face painting, prepares a pizza. Isaac gets a lesson in tossing the dough!

Ashland

We had a brief weekend trip to Ashland, where they have a lovely park along the creek. In this part is this terrific ... what do you call it? Climbing thing. We're going to try to duplicate this in our back yard!

County Fair

Shave ice and motorcycles at the County Fair. Hard to beat!

An August Family Reunion

Food, Family and Fun at the 2009 Chalupsky Family Reunion!

Hot Day

This was a wonderful park on a super-hot day. The water jets shoot up semi-randomly, to squeals of delight from the kids. There's a Noah's Bagels nearby, too ....

Slip-n-Slide!

I had to be very careful how I landed or you get these giant bruises. The kids sure enjoyed it a lot! Sadly, construction quality is not what I remember it, and the first one broke in the first hour (probably due to my taking a slide or two on it). Fred Meyers gave us a refund, no questions asked. We did get another one, and it's gotten some use.

FIshing, Sailboats and Shoes

Sydney is quite enamored of the idea of fishing. I don't know how she'll feel about it if she ever catches one! We don't give her hooks yet, so we're safe for a while.

This is what drew me to the lake this day: an informal gathering of small boat sailors. There were a dozen or so, but limited as we were to a canoe, we didn't actually mingle much.

And the Art segment of today's post, a self-portrait by Sydney. That's Daddy in the background.