August Actions

Smith (Mountain Lake) family playing

 water warming

 Justin throwing

 Anthony splashing

 Jessica floating

 Samuel catching?

 Karen boating

 Samuel smiling

 [Karen photographing]

 Micah thinking

 Paul wondering

 Paul entertaining

 After-bedtime boy eating

 Great-Grandpa Smith reading

 Micah jumping off the TOP dock!

 Paul shadowing Uncle Ralph

Taj-Mahog grilling

 Paul shadowing

 Aunt Faye enjoying her new kayak 

  Me paddling

 Paul tubing

 Grandma teaching skiing

 family encouraging

 Micah skiing

 Micah wakeboarding

Micah wakeboarding

 Micah tubing

 Micah kneeboarding

 Paul loving living things

 Sam body building

 Paul mo-hawking

 Karen photographing sacrificially

 Me feeding sushi (especially to Sam)

 Samuel chilling

 fish feeding

 boys hoping to go with Jessica

 Anthony wakeboarding!

Home from SML: Samuel sharing

Paul remembering

Micah smiling

Sam befriending

Ryah meeting

Paul questioning

Anthony freecycling (Note: he got a swingset free on Craigslist and refurbished it. It is great!)

Sarah celebrating

Sarah's youngest friends singing (and longing for sugar-free, dairy-free, gluten-free cake and ice cream)

Sam cheering for Ethan and his steer

Boys pretending

Samuel pigging out

Micah petting

Sam pointing

friends playing

Tongens loving Tyler

cousins picnicking

Micah matching Papa Jay and Grandma Idella

Aunt Cheryl's great-nephews playing

Joletta's family enjoying

Joey, Micah, CJ and Paul jumping (yes, we went back to SML with the cousins!)

Samuel floating

cousins battling

boys volunteering for a boat ride

Sarah and Charlie boating

boys approving of Uncle Scott getting sprayed or Micah's kneeboarding?

Joey smiling

cousins filling the pail and noodling

Samuel kneeboarding?

Sam swimming!

CJ's cousins playing

tubes dueling

Joey, CJ, Anthony, Paul and Micah thanking Uncle Ralph

raspberry pickers eating (at Grandma Bev's farm)

Joey and Paul testing raspberries

Samuel catching up to the big boys

grandsons helping Granddaddy harvest squash

Crabtree Falls storming

Paul and Sam matching

Anthony repairing

No action verb blog post of the Tongens would be complete without some singing! We'll leave that piece to Sam and his friend Charlie. [Translation: "Hallelujah"]