Tido and Jax's Visit

On Friday, July 29th, our friend Tido and his son Jax (age 10) came and stayed at our house for a week. Tido was the Best Man in my Mom and Dad's wedding. We did a lot of things with them...fishing, playing at the beach, swimming at Chico, walking downtown, going to garage sales, sleeping on the porch, jumping on the trampoline, having W.A.R. competitions, putting on a roof (Dad and Tido did it), painting the house, going on a raft trip, playing with Matilda (Jax LOVED her!), slaughtering a rooster, going to the county fair, etc. ;) We had a lot of fun!

Preston helping Dad set up the scaffolding to paint the house.

Our new paint color!

Dad and Tido picked up the metal roof from Bridger Steel in Belgrade (83 miles from our house).

Dad waving from the top of the roof  (he does have a safety harness on, Grammie!). ;)

Dad working on the roof.

Tido!

Finding new treasures at the garage sale in Gardiner!

Jax LOVED Matilda!!

Jax and Tido fishing down on the river beach.

Fifi and I building sand castles on the beach.

Bennett and Jax fishing on the beach.

Dad and Tilly sunbathing!

Chilaxing.

Preston on the ropeswing!

Tilly wants to sleep on the back porch, too!

Porch party!

Fiona loves to water the flowers for Mommy!

Tido got really mad when Henry the rooster attacked him when he was trying to get eggs from the coop...time to give Henry the "neck treatment"!

Bye-bye Henry!

All the kids playing on the tramp.

Fiona waited for us on the beach before we floated by on our raft trip.

Bennett, Preston, Tido, Jax and I got to take the Explore Yellowstone raft trip. We all had a great time!

This is the big wave we see in front of our beach.