Our Summer So Far

As it might have been noticed I got really behind on my blogging, but I recently got the first year of my blog printed in a hardcover book and am now re-inspired to keep up with it. But before I can really do much I have a little catching up to do. So this post is a little bit of everything we have been doing for the last 4 months. So Here goes with the first being the oldest until the end which will be more recent.

Laguna Beach is one of our favorite spots because we can almost always get Grandpa to join us and that makes it just a little bit more fun!!

Isaac loves capris suns I mean LOVES he is hilarious with it so it is extra special when we get them for beach trips :D

My Little Helper, Adam folded that whole pile of towels himself he is such a big helper

When I head to beach, this is how I roll



Isaac's first Father-Son camping trip was a little tough on daddy as he was awake most of the night, but that didn't stop him from having tons of fun.  He loved rolling down the hill!!

PreSchool Graduation:

Adam had a tough time with Kevin's graduation, I think he thought it was a little too much about Kevin and little too little about him.  But he was very uncooperative and made sure he got his mad face in any picture he could.  But we love that face too!!

Kevin and his preschool teacher Mrs. V.  She loved Kevin and said he was her life saver in the class because he was such a good listener and example to the other kids.  He was very popular with the kids apparently and they followed him often.  We are so proud of our little big boy!!

Movie Night at Newport Dunes Campground!!  We just found out about this and decided we ought to go.  They show kids movies every Friday and Saturday night all summer long on the sand.  It costs 10 dollars per car for parking and that's it.  The boys had a blast and got to watch Lilo Stitch!!

For a cheap outing we decided to take the little Ferry across the Harbor from Balboa Island to the peninsula.  It costs next to nothing to take the Ferry and the parking was free and Grandpa came along on our little adventure we went to the beach playground and had a picnic lunch. It was a perfect way to spend 5 bucks and a morning.

The Doctor's office can be such a terrible adventure but today we decided to take pics of how not terrible it was as the boys were all being such fun kiddos and great brothers.

 Hats! Hats! Hats!  Isaac loves hats, you might say he is a little obsessed he will put on any hat and this hat was found at Cooke Camp and he loved it, I don't have a picture of the meltdown that ensued when it was time to put it away but he was so into this hat that was seriously bigger than him, lol...

In May we increased our household size by two and a puppy when my sister and brother-in-law and their little puppy Oliver moved in.  Uncle Josh and the boys had so much fun for days putting together different train tracks with their geo-trax set and playing with them.

I sewed something.  along with not blogging I have not been sewing either, but I finally broke the pattern and I made this travel pillow, and now Kevin actually does sleep in the car when I say to go to sleep.  He is faking in this picture which makes me laugh a little bit.

 For father's Day for Papa we took some pics with Daddy and Papa's Motorcycle and the boys they turned out soooo fun!!

beach days, are fun and one day we headed to the beach only to find it was cold like downright chilly so on the way in we stopped at Albertsons and got some firewood and marshmallows and now our beach day was not ruined but even better...

The boy's started a soccer class, it is a pre-requisite for joining the Anaheim Soccer League which we will be doing in September.  They are having so much fun learning the basics and running out any extra energy they might have had!!

 We recently had a birthday party for Aunt Lindsey at Lake Mission Viejo.  The boys all went swimming and then Uncle Geoffrey got them all hooked up with some fishing  gear and they ended the day trying to catch some fish, they were unsuccessful this time but are sure next time will be different.  : D

Yosemite!!

Packed and ready for fun!!  This picture reminds of my childhood cross country trips soooo much!!

It is starting to look like all we do is go on Vacation!! Well I would love for that to be so but we actually have gone lots this year. This was super fun.

Day One: Our whole family loves camping and this was a whole new adventure!! The boys had gotten little coughs the week before our trip but these had pretty much gone away by the time we headed off. The kids were travel pros and we stopped and got lunch at in & out and then headed out they slept, played and watched movies the whole way up. But the last 30 minutes

of our trip up to Yosemite Adam started complaining that his ear hurt. We thought that it might be due to the altitude changes since we were already in the park when he started crying. So we got to our camp and got out and found that if nothing else he really did have a fever. Luckily we had brought Tylenol for the kids and we dosed him up and went to the ranger station to see what we could do for the little guy.

Isaac and Daddy after we got everything set up!!

We were staying in Wawona which we had never done before and were really looking forward to checking out the area around there. This Ear problem had something else in store for us :D.

Day Two: The next morning we woke after a rough night with Adam being cold and hot and hot and cold and we headed to the valley where they had a clinic we could go to. They were awesome at the clinic and we got him some antibiotics and motrin there. (did I mention I took him and Isaac to the doctor before we left to check their ears and they DIDN'T have ear infections because usually if Adam and Isaac get colds they DO get them, uuuhhhhmmm anyway) So we decided to spend some time in the Valley and we went to see Yosemite Falls. Then we had a picnic and headed back up to our campsite which was about an hour away.

Yosemite falls is just a short walk in and we did this without much effort even little Adam made there and back with only minor issues (none of them revolving around ear aches, picture taking, yes)

lower falls at Yosemite falls, we got very wet taking this picture and it was very windy as well :D

Rock towers, hundreds of them!!

Night Two: Now we had Adam feeling pretty good and he was pretty tired from not sleeping well the night before and we put everyone down to bed and later we went to bed around 9:30. When we got into the tent we saw Adam stand up walk over to the suitcase and sit on it. We spoke to him but he didn't speak back so we went over to him. He wasn't awake, he was sleep walking. soooo, we got him back in bed then realized he had peed on the suitcase while sitting on it. So we salvaged what clothing we could and pulled the rest out and got him changed and back in his sleeping bag. Then a couple of hours later he woke us up to let us know he had peed in his sleeping bag now too. Poor thing was exhausted and so not waking to go to bathroom.

Day three: So the next morning we had to go back to the Valley to housekeeping to do laundry since we were down a sleeping bag now and it was very cold at night up there at 4000 feet. So we went back down and this time decided to hike to Mirror Lake which we had done once before a couple of years ago with our friends the Bartys and had been vastly disappointed to find that there was no water in Mirror Lake, but we heard there was now so we hiked it again. We decided to go the scenic horse trail instead of the road "trail" up to the lake. it was a beautiful hike but once again we were a little disappointed to find that we still could not see the reflection of anything in the lake from the side we hiked up and there was no way to cross without a boat. So we made the best of it and found a little place for the kids to play in the water and met another family doing the exact same thing from San Pedro (that is where Bryan works, such a small world) and the boys played with their boys and had a blast seeing out deep they dared go in the freezing cold water. We ran back to the bus stop because we thought we were going to miss the shuttles as it had gotten quite late on us. We got back to the car and drove about an hour to go one mile to housekeeping...we won't do that again. and did laundry and had a picnic dinner at the car while our clothes washed. We got back to camp quite late around 10 and transported the sleeping children to their sleeping bags and went to bed ourselves.

Water was seeping from everywhere while we were up there this time it was amazing to see

Meadows and cliff faces!!

on the horse trail to Mirror Lake!!

I had to add this pic of Adam with the big stick because I have so many of him with big sticks in his hands that it just felt necessary :D

Isaac and his blue eyes...

Adam found a fishing buddy at Mirror Lake and caught some "fish" or something :D

Daddy got a little wet trying to cross Mirror Lake to get to the "fun" side where there were sandy beaches and views but it was not going to happen for the whole family so we had "Fun" on our side!!

aahhh yes motorcycles ...

More water seeping from the tops of cliffs.  We had never seen this waterfall before on our Yosemite trips it was beautiful and fell right down towards the village.

Night Three: No Accidents No wakefulness!!!

Day Four: We had to go home :( We ate breakfast and started packing up the tent and everything then spent the rest of the morning throwing rocks in the GIANT river and playing Frisbee and such and I made cheeseburgers over the fire.

Here are some pics from at our campsite!!

it was a beautiful campground, we would definitely go back :D

rock throwing!!!

the very large, very deep, very fast river!!

Then we got in the car and headed back home and once again the kiddos were star travelers. We would take them anywhere!!!