As you can tell we have a camera again. Yeah. Thanks to our friends the Buckinghams and family. We were able to capture a few moments this summer. Enjoy!

Summer activites aka boredom busters

We finally got ourselves a porch swing which we love to sit on together as you can see. Grace thinks we are all a bunch of wackos. I'd have to agree.






We refinished our kitchen table. It was a bad finish to begin with so we took it upon ourselves to strip it and stain it again. It looks pretty good now. We have yet to take a picture of the finished product.






Making our kids do silly things is one of our greatest joys in life. They are usually very willing to comply. This is them all lined up looking cute and weird. That's the Faurschou Family for ya.











We were able to go camping once this summer so far. We had a good time until we had a bear scare in the middle of the night. No it wasn't Jack. He looks like he is pulling the bear face in the picture. We were dead asleep when a man from somewhere near our camp woke us up saying, "Sir, just want to let you know that we just had a bear come through our camp and he is on his way to you." Okay, so how were we to take that news. "Thanks sir, we're sure to sleep great now! Thanks for the heads up." NOOO. I couldn't sleep the rest of the night. But after listening for an hour or so for any sounds we eventually fell asleep. But about 2:30 I was woken up by chomping and sniffing sounds down at our campfire pit where we had spilled some popcorn and didn't clean it up very well. I hit Nate and told him to listen and as we did this a "thought to be a huge man hungry bear" came closer and closer to our tent sniffing all the while. I look down at the bottom of our door and find that we didn't zip it. A shadow of some nose poked and sniffed itself through our zipper and made me pretty much give myself away with my body shaking so much. Nate decided to the most manly thing, he snapped his fingers. Ooohhh! but it made the animal pull it's head out of our tent just to encourage it to sweep the perimeter of our tent, again sniffing all the while. After about a 20 minute jaunt around our tent it finally disappeared. We sat there shaking from cold and fear for another 45 minutes. Nate then proceeded to tell me that he needed to use nature's restroom and I told him he would have to hold it forever cause he wasn't going out there. But in time he did and nothing ate him. After not sleeping for the rest of the night, we waited until the sun was up and cars could be heared on the highway. We opened up the tent and looked at the footprints and discovered that it was a RACOOON! You wouldn't believe how mad I was. If I was going to be that scared it had better be a dang bear! But in the end all is well and you'll see us all in a camper.


And here is Morgan, holding a tin foil ball in between her toes, stuffed in our couch, in some position I don't know how she got in. It is our new Olympic sport. "Tin Foil ball positioning act" I give her a 9.3. Her toes are not pointed.