Shooting and climbing trees

Top Shelf is a pretty great place to shoot since there's the hillside, the views and plenty of room for the boys to run safely.

 Rock and Ryker do a good job of hanging out by the truck, eating cookies and wearing their ear plugs. 

 The boys had fun shooting the .22 and the AR-15

 Through our ear plugs I thought I heard someone yelling or help.  I finally found a cat stuck in a tree.

 After we extracted him he immediately started climbing again while Ryker tried to devise a better escape device.

 Ryker ain't no fool and he picked an easier tree to climb down.

 He did still use his ramp, just in case.

 Rock eventually realized that maybe his little brother had a good idea. 

 A most amazing thing happened last Sunday; Rock asked if he could take a Sunday nap.  Then he really took one.

 The nicer weather makes it easier for the kiddos to have fun outside, sometimes they even play nicely with each other.

 Energizer Rock wears the rest of us down, but it seems that Ryker takes the brunt of his energy the most.  That means sometimes he simply lays down and gives up.

 Did I mention the nice weather that we've been having?

 Occasionally we have to go to Wenatchee during the week and normally we go to Cafe Rio.  But last time Ryker kept begging and begging for Mac and Cheese from Red Robin.  We finally acquiesced and he was almost overjoyed.

 Jensley slowly woke up while at the restaurant but once the food came she was wide awake and knew what to do.

 "Maccheese!"

 The boys were pretty excited when Butch Weise showed up with a dump truck full of gravel.  They weren't allowed close to the truck but they got to watch it do its magic.

 Once the gravel was dumped the crew was ready to get to work.

 It is always easy to tell which of our kids is the bossy one. 

 They did work pretty hard at spreading the gravel whether or not that's what Grandpa wanted.

 Jens loved making little benches and then sitting in them.

 Ryker tried to dig a tunnel through the pile but couldn't figure out why it kept collapsing.

 Hot work required hot men.

 Ryker tried really, really hard to dig that tunnel and wouldn't take any explanations or reasons why it wasn't working. 

Jens and Huddy seem to get along...usually.

Jens loves holding Kassy whenever people will let her.