Our Road Trip!

Our first Detour on Highway 101:

The Avenue of Giants!

We were told we would 'probably' fit through the Chandelier Tree in the suburban...

We didn't think we'd try it!! At Myers Flat, we were guaranteed to fit...

These trees are AMAZING!

It took us 5 hours to travel 67 miles!

We stopped and spent the night in Eureka, CA. We ate at the Samoa Cookhouse--VERY good food, served 'family style'. There were 2 entrees-Pork Roast and Fried Chicken, sides of Broiled Red Potatoes, and fresh Corn, Soup and Salad, and Dessert-Almond Custard and Apple Crumble! And served in the original cookhouse on the original tables that the loggers used 'back in the day'! It was all Delicious!

We left Eureka and barely made it 20 miles before we HAD to stop, again!

We passed these signs VERY frequently on our drive. It was starting to Make us Nervous!!!

August Preview...

Our Road Trip!

I will get the rest of the pics and info up as soon as I sort through the 899 pictures we took!

Trying to stay on top of things!

The Cub Scouts had their First Annual Webelos Camp Out up in Lamoille Canyon!

It rained the first night, straight through into the morning!

It didn't stop the scouts from having fun and getting their advancements done! And a 3 mile hike, and investigating of a 'Really Big' Beaver dam! Or from cooking S'mores and, in general, being Noisy, Rambucsious Cub Scouts!!

June and July

Ben turned 8 this year, jeepers-time is Flying by!

June was our Wet month-it rained 28 days of this month-Good, Hard rain nearly EVERY afternoon (and NOT our usual Northern Nevada, barely a sprinkle rain)- so I figured a morning party in the park would be safe. The kids had enough time to play-a little, Ben opened his presents and had cupcakes. And then it started to lightning and thunder and then the rain came!

Still had fun, and Denny had time (BARELY) to climb the tallest tree in the park, almost to the very top! "Why?" you may ask...There was a ball stuck in the tree, and Denny wanted to get it out! He was still at the top when the lightning & thunder started to roll in! The nut!

July 4th!
Our Annual BBQ in the park:

The rains had quit by July 4th, but the temperature was still REALLY nice-mid to high 80's! Warm enough for a The Water Fight!

The Big Guns & a couple of Big Tubs of water...
makes for some SOAKING wet kids!

We BBQ'd for lunch, kicked back and visited, relaxed, and played games (cards and marbles)!

Terri brought crafts again-the Kids love this, so do the adults-the kids are pretty quiet when they are concentrating on painting 'stained glass', beading and tatoo-ing each other!

Uncle Tim took his 2 sons and Asa GeoCaching...I still don't really understand what this is! Here they are posing for the camera phone! CrAzY BoYs!!!

Then BBQ's again for dinner, leaving us just enough time to clean up and pack up before dark and before...

The Annual Rain Gutter Regata was mid-July! Here is most of the Pack and the winners-Ben came in 3rd!

July 24: Denny & April braved the trails of Lamoille Canyon with 7 kids (respective spouses had to work):

They hiked up to Island Lake, played in the water, only 3 (Denny, Asa & Shanie) were daring enough to swim in that Ice Cold Water clear out to the Island!

The report was the weather was great, not too hot, the water COLD, but refreshing, and the views-beautiful!

Holy Fijoles! June is nearly Over!! I'll get to this month...maybe next month!

May becomes INSANE around here!

EVERYTHING wraps up in May, so we get to run around CrAzY for the whole month!

Dance Recital May 17th: Sophie in Pre-Clogging dancing to "It's a Hard Knock Life"...

She is an Adorable little Orphan!

Katy's class danced to Cheetah Girls' "Dance Me If You Can"

Followed by Concert #3 (we didn't attend #2, it was a school assembly concert!)

Denny's already Wiped out!

Sophie's Daisy Troop wrapped up their year of scouting by gardening the Church's flower beds on May 21!

Ben & Asa (and Denny's) Pack wrapped their year up with the annual Cross Over Ceremony, also on May 21!

The younger classes at the kids' school 'grew' their own Butterflies! May 22 was "release" day, after they all got to 'hold' the butterflies in a mesh tent!

And Asa's grade performed in...

And Soccer Season FINALLY wrapped up on May 23!

Ben completed another year of Soccer, with Dad as assistant Coach!

Sophie's U5 team, with Dad as The Coach!

Asa played this season, also, but with Mom and Dad running to and fro, neither one of us caught a snap shot of his playing! And His Team Photo is Professional, so, you'll just have to take my word for it, Asa played and played Well!

Here is Katy's Team, again, Dad is the assistant Coach! Bless these two men for volunteering to coach 13-10 & 11 year olds Girls! The Hormones flying on these fields, Wow!

In the middle of all of this, Our Sophie turned 6!!

The last day of school, saying good bye to al of our friends!

Whew! We survived-all of the extra dance classes, just to make sure we're ready for recital; 5 days a week of soccer, 3 of those nights there were usually 2 different practices going on; Scout meetings; Homework-don't the teachers Know? we have all of these extra activities going on Every evening, it sure seemed like Katy & Asa had more homework these last few weeks, than they've had at any other time all year!

Now, we get to relax for the summer, right?!

Easter

We colored eggs a couple of days BEFORE Easter this year, it's usually the evening before, so we were ahead of the game this year!!

Easter dawned to a BEAUTIFUL morning-still too cold and a bit too damp that early in the morning, so our Easter Bunny hid the eggs inside the house, again! Good thing our dog sleeps in a kennel, with the door locked, otherwise, I am sure she would have helped herself the all the eggs, candy & little goodies in the kids' baskets!



After all the fun of collecting all of the eggs, comparing what each of the kids got, we took Grandma N out for Brunch! Then back to the manor for their Egg Hunt!








Such a BEAUTIFUL Easter Day. We spent part of the day at the Park, playing on the playground, throwing the Fisbees, lounging on the blanket and soaking up the sunshine and the wonderful 70 Degree weather, without a bit of wind.

Then just 2 days later 6 Inches of SNOW, that stuck around for 5 day! (pictures of our friends' back yard-- Easter Sunday........Tuesday afternoon!) This was just INSANE!!