a day in the mountains!!

We brought the sand toys thinking we would be on the beach, but hey sand toys are great for dirt too...
Look at the dirty face,

The girls were making a birthday cake tower for Joel's birthday

Just having fun cruising around camp

Scott was helping Madi roast her first marshmallow. Yum Yum!!

The girls absolutely love each other. Madison is just like the little sister Lily always wanted.

Maybe one of the last family photos before our little Jackson joins our family.

such a cutie

The people down below are the Harris Family, except for Mel. Al was trying to catch one of the 11 fish that he could see and the kids were playing. Dinkey Creek is great, we love coming here. I think Al is getting frustrated that he can't catch the fish but can see them.

The face says it all!! He was so exhausted. He actually doesn't look too dirty here but was absolutely covered from head to toe in dirt. Gotta love boys!

We had great plans to spend the day at Shaver Lake with family. We were going to have a picnic lunch and a barbeque dinner and play in the lake, at sundown we were going to enjoy the fireworks that are launched over the lake. Plans changed, there was no beach at Shaver, the water was so high and it was way too crowded. We decided to go to our usual hangout in Dinkey Creek and play there for the day. What a good idea! We had lunch, watched kids play in the water, watched Uncle Al attempt to catch a fish and just relaxed. The kids were absolutely perfect (except Carson didn't want to eat anything but m&m's) and had a blast. We didn't get to see the fireworks over the lake, but had fun regardless. The kids were so exhausted and absolutely crashed on the drive home. I was a little apprehensive to be so far away from Kaiser Hospital in case something happened and I needed to see the doctor but things ended up being OK. I was having contractions on the way up, I think from the bumpy off road excursion to try to get a place to park at the lake. Happy to be home, and I think kids were happy to get into their beds. Now tomorrow morning we will have to bathe them and change their bedding due to all the dirt, but hey it can wait till morning!!