We cleaned out the garage and washed the van yesterday. While we were outside the garbage man came by. Tyler kept saying wow over and over. Afterwards the girls decided to wash out the garbage cans. They were having alot of fun spraying water. The garbage cans stink because of the grass clippings. Sadie went inside for awhile. I thought she disappeared because she was gagging. She came out with half of a plastic easter egg taped to her nose. It's a homemade gas mask. Olivia just walked around with her nose plugged. Tyler didn't seem to mind. He must have his dad's sense of smell.

California

We went to palm Desert with the Dorius family and had an amazing vacation. The kids enjoyed swimming and playing together. We put 2000 miles on our van. We aren't thinking about how much the gas cost for those miles. It was all about the memories for us and the kids.
Dorius Family - Mike, Alison, Kerry, Mckay, Grant.

On Sunday afternoon we took a walk to feed the ducks and see the area.

This day it got up to 120 degrees. We swam in the morning then went to lunch at the cheesecake factory. After that we tried going to a movie but missed it so we got icees in Target until the next movie started. During the movie no one noticed that Tyler was putting the popcorn down his shirt. When it was over he had a good stash.


Here's the kids just hanging out. Sadie, Alison, Olivia, McKay, Tyler, (Grant was sleeping)

We left Palm Springs and headed to Manhattan Beach to visit the Blanchards. They live a minute from the beach. Of course I left my camera in the car. It's probably a good thing though because I'm known to ruin electronics. It was such a beautiful area. My kids are still talking about how much fun they had playing with Ella and Cole. They loved digging for Sand Crabs and jumping over the waves.

Ella and Sadie

Tyler and Cole

Next stop on the trip was Henderson Nevada. We went to Brad and Danielle's house. The kids love to hang out with their cousins. We felt like we didn't get near enough time to visit everyone. It was all short hi's and good-bye's. Tyler and Olivia had to ride Acadia and Treyson's bikes.

Watching a movie.

Playing at the park

Danielle is helping Sadie rock climb.

This park had mountain goats that just hungout. They came running down the moutain pretty fast. I think Shane and I were more excited then the kids were about this.

This park also had some fun toys.

Camping Fun

We started out the summer fun with 2 great camping trips. My kids had so much fun playing with cousins they don't see nearly enough.

We had an off-road rally with the Wynn family. This was Ron's 2nd year of doing this and once again it was a blast. We followed each other around and tried to get stuck. We got cards randomly throughout the game and whoever had the lowest score at the end won. It was a great game of golf.

We love the Rhino! So far the record for the most people in it is 9. They were mostly little kids.

Lined up and ready to go & Racing to get a -10 points.

Rob's stuck and so here's the gang trying to get him out.

Sadie graduated from Kindergarten. She's a big 1st grader now. The graduation was scheduled to last 1 hour. Instead it was 1 1/2 and it started 10 min. late. Tyler and Olivia were crying before we even walked into the building. It was a long night for them but we are soooooo excited for Sadie. She loves school so much. She's turning into a great reader. How do you like the random guy walking across the background of the picture? Little does he know that he is now famous as part of our blog.

Olivia fell asleep while eating chips. This was on our way home from camping. Sorry the picture is blurry.

Tyler pulls this face now whenever we take his picture. He's saying cheese.