Dress Up

I'm so glad they have each other to play dress-up with.

Shaver Lake

My phone rang at 7 am. I was still in bed, but Lila and Elsie were there too so I wasn't sleeping. It was my Aunt Theresa. She was in the mood for an adventure! By 8 am we were in the car heading to the lake!

As soon as we got to Shaver, Tree (aka Aunt Theresa) ran over to find out about rentals. Next think we knew we were on a boat!


















After some time on the boat we were ready to play in the water. There wasn't much where we were around the lake so he drove to Dinkey Creek. It was perfect.

(Theresa did take a lot of the pictures, but some how she wasn't in a single one of them! I promise she was there too.)

We played for about an hour or so, then we headed back home.......

but not before some yummy soft serve!

Thanks Auntie Tree, for such a FUN and spontaneous day!

Time for Change

In preparation for Kindergarten we moved Lila out of her crib and into the girls room. We then moved Charlotte into the once Nursery.

I figured we were in for a long night, but we didn't hear a thing!

We did however find all of the girls in Charlotte's room in the morning.

A typical summer day

We went to the free movies A LOT this summer. The theatre by our house was never very crowded and Lila did pretty well all things considered. We also hadn't seen most of the movies they were showing, so why not? This particular day we also brought Aaron's friend Jacob from school.

We also spent A TON of time by Aunt Tree's pool. We most often went strait to her house from the theatre.

Hat Creek 2010 - day 8

Going home



Aaron still had some worms left and if he wasn't going to catch any fish, he at least wanted to feed them.



Meanwhile Nick had fun packing up the van! (Not really. He declared that next year we are renting a trailer.)



Before we headed out everyone wrote in the camp journal. It was really fun to read what everyone has written over the years.



We planned on visiting the train museum in Sacramento on our way home, but we got on the road too late and it was closed. The kids were a little disappointed, but ice cream helped them get over it. The Ice Cream was also a necessity. Before we left for camp we were having a very pleasant summer and hadn't experienced triple digit temperatures yet. The extreme heat finally came while we were gone enjoying mid 80 degree weather. When we stepped out of the car in Sacramento we all went into shock. I think it was about 110 degrees!



On the drive from Sac to Fresno Nick taught the kids how to get the trucks to honk! Even Lila loved it.



As usual, we weren't ready to go home. But it was a little easier knowing that we will be back next year.

Hat Creek 2010 - Day 7

Our last full day





Robb and I were the first ones up, with of course my kids. He offered to make an omlet for me. I gladly accepted! Before he was done Kenny and Nick were awake and somehow breakfast turned into an omlet competition. No one was complaining.





After breakfast everyone else headed up near Mt. Shasta to spend the day kayaking at the lake. The first year I went camping with Nick's family we didn't have any kids. It was lots of fun except fot the really, really bad sunburn that I got. I look forward to going again with our kids, but they are not ready for it yet. We did let Aaron go with everyone, even though it made me a little bit nervous. I knew he would have fun, and he did! He absolutely LOVED it. I wish I had pictures to post, or that I could even see pictures of his day. But I'm glad he got to go. Thank you Robb and Susie (and everyone else) for watching out for him and letting him tag along.



It was a very quiet day at camp with everyone away. Only our family, My dad, Ali and Grandma stayed behind.

Hat Creek 2010 - Day 6

Our family stayed pretty close to camp the rest of our time there. The kids were just fine with that. There is plenty do right there at the campsite. Thursday was very overcast, which was kind of fun. It felt like we were camping in the Fall.

We bought Aaron a "real" fishing pole during our trip. He made himself one out of a stick and some fishing wire earlier in the week, which was adorable and kind of sad.

We didn't catch any fish this year though. The middle of the day isn't the best time to catch them.

The last three nights we were there it rained for about an hour, right before dinner. Once it even hailed! It was fun because it never lasted long enough to get in the way. (Other than the last night when my dad and I were in the middle of making dutch oven french bread. We ended up standing over the dutch ovens with umbrellas!) For the most part we just hung out in the tent until the rain stopped.