Tahoe 2015

We got to Lake Tahoe in time for their airport's airshow that Kevin organizes every year.  It was so fun.  They had lots of airplanes we could look inside and they had airplanes flying all the time doing tricks and showing off. They kids watched a puppet show and Ruby got her face painted.  They had all these cute girly designs of butterflies and flowers, but when she sat down and they asked what she wanted, she pointed right to the big black batman mask.  We get to eat lunch in the VIP tent and we had snowcones as we walked around. 

Sunday we had our annual family testimony meeting by the reservoir.  It was nice.  And then that night we went to Sugar Pine state park and Amanda took our family pictures. They turned out great again.And then we walked around and had fun. We went to Donner lake one day and put in the jet ski and kayaks. We went to the neighborhood pool and played tennis and went to the bmx track.  We went to Watson lake. It was so fun.  It was this tiny lake with tons of tad poles.  The kids put the kayaks in and paddled over to "Tadpole Terrace" where there were tons of them.  Ruby was fearless with them. She'd reach right down and grab a frog or tadpole as soon as she saw one.  Her brothers would even call her over to get some for them because they were a little grossed out by the slimy things. We also went of a hike around the lake and had a picnic there. And then we had a day at Sand Harbor.  We just did the kayaks because the lake is too low for the jet ski.  The kids found a great place to catch crawdads and Amanda cooked them up for them again this year.  We played games every night and Danny joined us this year and he loved it.  Kevin and Amanda are such wonderful hosts. We have so much fun with them and we're so glad they let us come every year.

 

 

 

4th of July

We got home from Mexico 5 minutes before Ryan and Venessa got to our house for 4th of July. Kristal and Dan came too.  We had a great time with them.  We swam in the pool, the adults went to the Stratosphere one night, we did fireworks and ate good food.  There were tons of illegal fireworks this year.  Our neighbor behind us did them for hours.  We had such a good time watching them in between doing ours, until we went in our backyard and realized it was covered with cardboard and other things that had fallen when the fireworks exploded.  It took us an hour and a half to clean up our backyard. Everyone left on Monday.

Mexico Beach House

Celise Salmon's family has a beach house south of Rosarito and she invited a few families to come stay.  We went with the Deans and the Mechams met us there. So there were plenty of kids for everyone.  We stayed from Sunday to Thursday. We had a fabulous time. The house had plenty of room for all of us. It was cloudy most of the time and a little cold at night. We had the beach to ourselves every day.  The kids played in the sand and boogie boarded for hours every day.  Because the beach wasn't used very much, there were hundreds of perfect sand dollars all over the beach.  The kids collected buckets full. The kids played fun games at night.  We went to a little tourist market one day and the kids all bought cheap souvenirs.  Rachel bought a purse. Danny got a hat. Aaron bought a hammock for his bedroom. Seth bought a crossbow. And Ruby didn't like any of the junk so she decided she wanted her own trip to Winco to get candy when we got home.