My brother and our nephew traveled to Colville to enjoy a Father/Son time with us. Leonard is the youngest of my siblings being born 6 minutes after his twin, Lana. Andrew has an older sister, Hope. Hope was enjoying some cousin time in California. We stopped at The Master’s Brewpub in Deer Park on the way home from the airport for a meal.
As we continued home, we passed many sunflower fields. Andrew was born in the Ukraine so we pulled off the highway to get a photo of him with the sunflowers. They are Ukraine’s national flower and are associated with peace, the sun, and the warmth of the Ukrainian spirit.
Once home we had a walk about and played some Corn Hole.
On Sunday we met up with our family at church.
After church we enjoyed Greg’s famous Swedish Pancakes.
Sunday dinner was on Bayles Mountain. What a treat we had, lamb gyros with homemade gyros and tzatziki. Homemade Ice Cream with huckleberry sauce was our dessert. Our kids picked all the huckleberries themselves.
Jamie remembered to take the group shots and we are grateful for them. Andrew is our children’s cousin. He is cousin once removed to our grands.
Driving down our kids’ driveway for home we stopped for our traditional spot for a photo.
I’ll share our Monday and Tuesday doings in another post.
We had some intense thunderstorms yesterday and our temps dropped by 20 degrees by the time the storms ceased.
Happy August to you all.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
…more fun family time.
Hello Ellen,
Wonderful visit with your family, love the fields of sunflowers.
Take care, Happy Friday! Have a great weekend.
I love seeing a whole field of sunflowers. You can’t help but smile. We enjoy playing corn hole too. 🙂
Love seeing your place and especially the drive to your son’s house. We used to go see the sunflower fields in Northwest Louisiana when we lived there. Here in Texas, we have bluebonnets more than sunflowers.
I’m so glad you had a wonderful time with your brother and his son.
That was quite a drop in temperature!
A lot of good memories in these beautiful photographs. I found the ones in front of the sunflowers especially heartwarming.
How nice to have a visit from your brother and nephew! I love that you took Andrew’s photo in front of the field of sunflowers! That is a nice group shot too!
We had a break in our streak of 90-degree weather on the East Coast too. What a welcome relief!
Well, you had me with the field of sunflowers which was a perfect background for your nephew as you celebrate his heritage! Family time is really the best of times!