Tuesday July 29th was my brother and sister’s birthday. They are twins. It was fun to have one of the ‘twins’ with us to celebrate his birthday this year. Our Colville kids own a boat and the plan for this Tuesday was for them to treat their uncle and cousin to a day on the water. Their boat is not a yacht so Greg and I stayed home for boat time.
While the crew were boating I baked a cake and prepared our taco dinner. The candle on the cake had a small explosion of edible confetti that was fun. Note to self: read the directions before you light the candle. For the first candle I didn’t read the fact that I was supposed to put in the edible sprinkles ahead of lighting the candle. Thankfully there were two candles in the package and Jamie loaded up the second candle and Dan lit it for a successful ‘second take’ on singing and lighting and exploding!
The evening was capped off with a game of SkyJo which has become our ‘go to’ card game this year.
Wednesday morning was pack up day with a trip to the airport for our visitors. We stopped for breakfast at Frank’s Diner and another stop at Spokane Falls for a quick view before we continued on to the airport.
The Spokane International airport was a short ten minute drive from here. We dropped off my brother and nephew with hugs and good wishes. ‘God be with you till we meet again’.
We still had to make a couple shopping stops on the way back to Colville for supplies for our Vacation Bible School. After stopping at the Chef’s Store and Costco we drove the rest of our 70 mile trip to Colville with views of clouds that warned of Thunderstorms that were ready to burst at any minute.
We are thankful for the time we could all spend with my brother and nephew in our corner of the world.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
…fun times.
Looks like fun times with your family, great photos. Take care, enjoy your day!
Always someones birthday with a big family. 🙂 More fun times and making more happy memories.
It looked like wonderful family time! Happy birthday to your brother. We came back recently from a family cruise to Alaska and I;ve been trying to catch on things around my home, etc, Hope to be back to blogging soon!
Sounds like a lovely time with your brother and your nephew, and nice to celebrate a birthday while you were together! We are expecting out of town family later this week and some birthday celebrating will be happening here too!
Happy Belated Birthday to your brother and sister. A splendid collection of photos showing all those happy faces. Their joy just shines through 🙂 This started my day off with a smile. Thank you so much Ellen!
Happy Birthday to the twins. Looks like a fun time on the boat. Way to go on making the cake and dinner too. That candle sounds cool. I’ll have to get that card game for James when we gets a little older. Glad you got your shopping done. Take care.
LOVED every minute of it!
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
Happy belated birthday wishes to the twins – looks like picture worthy family time!
Hello Ellen, I am playing a bit of catch up here today…could you tell?
It looks like it was a wonderful time of family being together and celebrating your brother’s birthday. I’m so glad you had this time with your brother and nephew. What fun!