Ison Family Blog

Monday, August 25, 2014

Summer's Highlights

School starts on September 3rd so summer is not quite over. I feel the change coming though. The nights are already longer, and the mornings cooler. We're in summer's last hurrah.

Here are a few pictures from our summer. What a great summer it was!

Anderson Island with the Grandparents:

Grandma Jan in a kayak for the first time.

The beach infront of the cottage at Anderson Island.

Savannah

South Carolina

The lightshow.

Amy's family is the perfect cabin partner.

Grandpa and Liam skipping stones at the lake in NY

It was really, really good to see old friends.

Shadow Lake. Perfect!!!

Trying to figure out one of the new sailboats.

Acrobatics on the slack line.

We're off to a water park called Wild Waves today, so the fun's not over yet.

Friday, August 8, 2014

At the lake with Sarah and Ben and Liam

Our time at the lake is almost at an end. The big excitement has been a red squirrel in the house. It has greeted us on several mornings from the top of the bookshelf. Liam caught it with the camera when we scared it into the bedroom. We bought a "Have-a-heart" trap and caught it while we were in Stratford, but it escaped when we put it overnight in the shed so it is still at large and came in again today.

The boys have become very steady on the paddle boards.

Monday, July 14, 2014

Milk Carton Derby

We were lucky to be in Seattle for this Green Lake event. It was lots of fun and we could cool off with a swim in the lake. Ben and two friends paddled the serpent boat designed by the friends' father. They won the first heat but got blown off course and came in third in the final runoff. The boat and crew won a $100 certificate from an Italian restaurant for their overall appearance.