This Cat.....

...Is very weird!!!

Birch Bay

My parents are getting ready to go and travel the USA in there monster of a motorcoach (as soon as they can get there house rented) While they are waiting to go they bought a membership to a resort company that they will be able to stay at all over the country. One of the locations is in Birch Bay (an hour north of my house) and because I am family I get to have a free pass to the place that I can use up to 5 times a year. Works for me! So we decided to take advantage of the opportunity and head up there for a few days. We rented a trailer and took the boys "camping"

Todd wanted me to play tether ball with him but once I remembered that you have to avoid the ball hitting you in face....I passed.

Fortunately the tide was waaaaaay low while we where there. I couldn't believe how far it was out. We never actually made it to the water even after walking...and walking...and walking.
It was odd seeing all the boats just hanging out on the sand


Kaden whined and cried the whole time...it was annoying!
Typical Kyler finds some random guy to show him how to go clamming. That's what I love about him. He is not shy!

You don't see any pictures of Todd because the first night we were there he actually went back home so he could get up at the crackof dawn to go salmon fishing. So yes, I had to spend the night all by myself and we spent most of the next day waiting for him to return to us. I will forgive him this time....even though he didn't even catch any fish!I hadn't seen a sand dollar in years
Mr Crabs may be big....but he is dead
Kaden kept crying over all the clams squirting us in the leg

We spent alot of time at the pool

My man preparing me some meat!

What I don't have a picture of is ME beating Todd at horseshoes. I think that surprised him :)




Must have marshmallows

Man builds fire for woman!
The last day was spent at the waterslide park
No we did not go on the speed slide. AKA...enema slide!

But we did go on the "black hole"

And what I don't have pictures of (again!) is at the end of the day... Kyler got stuck in this slide. When the people behind him came around the corner, he was hit hard and pushed forward. He flew out of the slide and on to the pavement. He was scrapped up and pretty bloody. Needless to say we where done for the day!

We are all smiles here though

Kyler and I going down...

down....

down...

Still going down..

almost there....

Plug the nose because I know Kyler is going to land on top of me!

Splash!!

Bye Bye till next time!

One Of The Kids!

There is something about summer vacation and hot summer days that make you feel like a kid again!

Weddings in Weaverville

Incase you haven't figured it out yet...I take alot of pictures and my posts contain alot of pictures. That's just who I am and how I do things. This post has a mega dose of pictures so I wanted to warn you before we moved on any further...

On our way down south we thought a stop to Cabella's was in order. It weird..because we are not outdoor-sports type of people but we still find enjoyment in stopping there. The kids like all the stuffed animals and we like to look at all the crazy gear you can get just to kill a duck or something. One of the things on the to do list while there was have lunch at the restaurant. Every bit of wild game is available at the deli. I wouldn't say I am super adventurous in my eating but I was excited to have some elk. You see...my dad used to do alot of hunting when I was young. We ate elk like most of the world eats cow....all the time. When someone would say they had never had elk, I would be confused because I thought you could get it at the store like everything else. We had it that much! So anyways I was curious to know if I still liked it after all these years.

Kyler had himself a wild boar sandwich. It tasted like ham covered it syrup. It wasn't half bad.
And yes...I still like elk. At least in deli meat form. It tasted like a highly seasoned roast beef.

This was our caravan going down to California. Todd wanted to take a picture because he likes to point out that he sold all 3 of those cars

We had all the boys in our car because we had the dvd player. Fortunately the movies kept everyone quiet. Good thing because it takes about 12 hours to get to where we are going

Mount Shasta

Its funny how a kid can get so dirty when they have only been in the car all day

This is what happens when you don't have any video games available for the boys to play. They try and catch things on fire!

So here it is...the ranch! This is where Todds uncle lives. This is the goal for our 12 hours worth of driving. Weaverville, CA. I love it here! Did you know that about 8 yrs ago, Todd and I were THIS close to moving here? Craig and Nancy (uncle and aunt) were looking into buying a local business and they wanted us to come down and run it for them. We were looking for a change in our lives and they presented an opportunity to us. Long story short..the business wasn't going to make the money that we needed so they didn't buy it and we didn't move. But I always look forward to coming here. I can't describe how peaceful it is. We have family reunions here and everyone comes...I mean everyone travels from the across the USA to come to reunions and weddings. That's how close this family is

Such a perfect setting for a wedding!

If it was 13 yrs ago...I would get married here

The weather was extremely hot. Something like 106 degrees. The wedding was planned for the evening just when the sun went behind the mountains. Good thing because it was sooooo hot! We helped a little bit with the set up but fortunately we didn't have to do to much in the heat. Which was good news for us...more time at the pool!

Kyler is such a character.

We had fun with the camera and taking funny pictures.

Christie is supposed to be posing with me. That was deal.

Pose...
Get ready...
Jump!
And maybe make a graceful plunge!

Pose...

Get ready...
Jump!
Reach for the skies...
Woo Hoo!!



You get the idea



Possible Christmas picture??
Here we are all cleaned up for the wedding. It was Hawaiian themed and since it was so hot, we had permission to go with sun dresses and shorts.
My boys are so goodlooking!




This is Jessica...looking her most gorgeous!


Now that's a kiss!


This is my neice Lydia. I love this picture! She looks like she is modeling or something. Isn't she just the sweetest thing?

This is me fooling around with photoshop...trying to make myself look better!

Caleb and Kaden got the dancing started for the evening. They cut- the -rug all night!


And yes.. we danced in the sand




Its always so hard to say goodbye to everyone. The time always goes by way too fast

I love this picture because it reminds me of Aunt Nancy. Nancy died a year and a half ago to cancer. Her absence was felt the whole weekend. But anyways....she loved all things nature, especially her hummingbirds.
This was the temperature on the way home.

So wrong in so many ways!