Lots of excitement this week! On Tuesday my brother Mike came to stay with us for the week. With Cliff so busy working on his event in town, the Tour de Nez (www.tourdenez.com), it has been nice to have an extra set of hands (and eyes and ears) around the house. The kids LOVE having him here and we have been having a lot of fun.

Here they are having a sword fight:

On Tuesday we discovered a duo that is almost better than peanut butter and jelly.... its water and a trampoline. We zipped the kids into their little caged jumping area and then sprayed them with the hose (again something that we might not want to share with CPS) and they had a BLAST!

Here is Mike spraying them down:

The happy jumping faces:

Direct hit:

On Wednesday night we went to the first concert in the park of the summer. It is definitely one of my favorite things about summer in Truckee. Sitting on the grass with the kids running around like crazy, listening to music and having a beer. It doesn't get much better than that!

Then last night we went out to support Cliff's event, Tour de Nez in downtown Truckee. Ella and Micah took part in the kids bike race in downtown. I forgot my camera! Whoops! Micah took it very seriously, pedaling so hard he was rocking from side to side on this training wheels. Ella, who has the freedom of no training wheels, took off like a bat and I didn't find her until the end. It was hilarious, none of the kids knew to stop at the finish line so they ended up going around the block with all the parents chasing after them and screaming. The streets were all blocked off, so everyone made it safely (OK maybe there were a couple of skinned knees) and had a great time!

Tonight is Ella's graduation from preschool, I'm sure that there will be lots more pictures this weekend!

Congratulations to our little Kindergartner!!