The Guddat Gang

This is Jon. Just some random photos from late July... We took a trip to see Grandma Guddat. I think this is actually a pretty good photo. The girls and Great Grandma. Another family photo...brought to you by the dashboard of the VW Passat. I wanted to power wash the cars a couple of weeks ago and for some reason I had to have the girls with me. Kittitas has a car wash place just outside of town right when you start getting into the fields, so it's seriously a perfect setting to wash a car. The girls for some reason felt it was necessary to get their camping chairs out and watch.

This is Jon. We've been busy this summer, but don't really have the photos to prove it. This was a couple of weeks ago. We didn't go on our usual trip to the ocean this year, so the girls convinced me to set up the tent in the backyard and camp there. After 10 bathroom breaks and then getting over the idea that Adelyn said "forget this, I'm sharing the bed inside with mommy" Delaney and I fell asleep very late into the night. Still fun to share the tent with the girls though. With the girls at Blue Grandpa and Grandma's Brittany and I decided to float the Yakima River. Good times. The water was cold, the weather would later be 100+ degrees, so it took about 30 seconds to get warm. Not bad. This is me moments before jumping off the cliffs midway down the canyon. My cliff was about 20-25 feet. We used to jump off the 30-35 footer back in the day. Still exhilarating though.

This is Jon. Spent all day Sunday with the family either at home and at Dad and Sharon's house last weekend for Father's Day. My girls chillin' in paradise, otherwise known as my parents' backyard. Exploring in the wetlands in the backyard with the girls... Dad on the phone talking to Jerrod in the top of the photo while the girls are looking for bugs. My little explorers! What's cuter? Preston...or Grandpa Harold thrilled with booze for a Father's Day gift? Great smiles from both ladies... Playing with Preston in the family room. Yeah, none of us are looking at this camera, but this is the best of the 20 we took, trust me, although we're laughing in every one of them. It doesn't get much better than this, I'll tell you that right now. My cuties...

You can definitely tell that summer is here as the girls are out and about much more and there has been plenty to do around the county. A really cool thing in Ellensburg about a week and a half ago was "Touch A Truck" where police cars, fire engines, PUD vehicles, cranes and things were in this huge parking lot and kids just went and explored each of them. Really cool I thought, but unfortunately I was slaving away at the office. The girls had a good time, though. Adelyn wearing the headphones in the fire truck. The City of Kittitas held an open house for their new city hall remodel (pretty big time in our little municipality). BBQ, jumpy house, music and face painting. We also went to the Old Mill Country Store's carnival where animals were on display. These are what I believe to be Shetland ponies. Pretty cool. Delaney loves snakes. Last year at the fair she couldn't stop holding a bunch on display. This time around, this five foot corn snake was in a "look-don...

This is Jon. Delaney's last day of school was the other day and I snapped a few pics of her heading to school like she's always done. As we got closer to the end of the year, she wanted to walk to and from school by herself. She graciously let us join her for her last day as a first grader... My big girl, leading the way one block down Patrick Ave. My trio, walking across the playground field on their way to Mrs. K's classroom. Delaney and Mrs. K. Mrs. K has been teaching at Kittitas for a while now. Delaney has two friends whose dads had Mrs. K back in the day. It's not uncommon to see grown ups walking into her class to drop off their kids and give Mrs. K a hug. Kind of cool actually.

This is Jon. Summer is here, which means school is out. We tried to snap up a few pics of the last day of school for each girl... This wasn't technically Adelyn's last day of school, it was the second-to-last day and the teachers decided all three hours of pre-school would be at the park where the kids just played around, had snacks and had a scavenger hunt, too. The kids are around the picnic table checking out what they're supposed to find. I thought Adelyn's face was priceless here on the teeter-totter. Class picture. Mrs. Baker is on the left. Ms. Sue is on the right. Now that preschool is all done, this is a picture of my little kindergartener!

This is Jon. Yard work was done, sun was out and we weren't in the mood to stay in the house, so we headed out to People's Pond to soak up the sun on Sunday. It was pretty breezy and that kept the park pretty vacant, so it was like we had the whole place to ourselves. This bridge is Adelyn's favorite place in the whole world right now. She and I hung out the other day and were walking along and "found" this bridge. She had to show her sister today. D and Britty soaking up the sun. Addy - forever the fashionista. Picture says a thousand words here. Adelyn snapping a photo of her big sister. Adelyn is a prancer. She rarely walks flat-footed and instead is either dancing or prancing. Delaney wanted to jump in the Yakima River, especially after seeing me do it. This was her way of getting pumped up. Adelyn the supervisor of the river jump. We didn't get a photo of Delaney jumping in just in case we needed all hands on deck to get her out, but my big girl took the ...