Radar Dome

One day on our camping adventure, Scott took us all up to "radar dome."  On the way, we saw a little black bear.  He was right off the side of the road, and didn't seem to mind us staring at him.  I don't know what it is this year, but I have already seen more bear this spring alone than the whole time i've lived in WA!  Craziness!

Here's one of the views from up at the top of radar dome. SO pretty!

The kids "posing" for a lovely scenic picture!  Yeah right!!

Ok, back to the views...

Muscle man, Lane

Ally and Macy Cheezin'

Lane's into his superhero posing these days....:)  

Here's "bear."  He made the trip with us..

Macy and bear.  BFF's

Lucy and her rock.  This girl LOVES ROCKS!   She is always finding cool rocks and collecting them, on our walks, in our yard, in town.  It doesn't matter where we are, she will find a rock.

Someday, my kids will like to take pictures with their mother... :)

At least my husband will take pictures with me!! :) Can you guess how old my shirt is??  Random fact:   about 14 years old!!! It was my freshman year at BYU dorm shirt.  Awesome :)


So i didn't actually take any pictures of "radar dome"  Because, really, it is pretty creepy and has WAY too much profanity graffiti to post :)  What is it?? I'm not sure, but i was describe it as a bunch of old ruins from some freaky military camp where they talked to and harbored the Aliens they have found.  There were several buildings which have been half destroyed so you can't tell what they were really for.  They look like old concentration camp buildings to me.  And weird channel-ways, and an old dome (probably where they had their super telescopes)  I don't know.  The place was weird.  You could walk through all the old building skeletons and imagine what they were used for.  Weird.  I've thought about google-ing it and seeing what strange things happened there....but i guess that will be for another decade when we don't have dial-up internet anymore :)

Anyways, it was a fun little day-trip, with lots of pretty scenery! 

More camping

Here are just some random scenes around camp...

Could these girls be any cuter!?!? Oh my goodness. Katie and her big sister, Ally were SO fun with our girls....Lucy and Macy LOVED all the attention from these "cool older chics"

Lane hangin by the fire.....The ground was just more comfortable than the chairs.  I get that. :) Me and Lane sat on the ground alot....too bad he sat too close the fire and melted his shoe! :(

Good Morning!

mmmmmmm S'mores

Macy was on a s'more induced coma apparently :)

I LOVE LOVE this picture.....:)  The general public doesn't get to see this "scott smile" very much....so here it is ...documented for posterity :)  Even though our posterity gets to see it a lot!!

yikes.  A few days in the woods and scott's ear hair just gets OUT of control!!!

Not to mention, my mustache

Macy deliriously tired and ready for a nap on the way back to camp from  fishing...

Oh the joys of hammocks.  Don't you just want to jump in there with them!?? 

Fish!

Lane was SO EXCITED to finally go fishing!  And he caught his first little fish! He was so proud, and carried it around (well chasing the little girls with it) for about a half an hour!

Lane with his first fish

it's a keeper!

Daddy showing him how to clean it

Lane got to help take out the guts

I love this picture! Lane was so amazed that he could make the fish "talk" and chased people around with this fish on his finger for what seemed like hours!! :)

Katie and macy waiting to leave

Lane got to cook his fish over the fire for lunch!

Yum!  He actually ate it!  I was pretty impressed.

Kayaking

We spent some time in our kayaks over memorial day weekend! I had missed them! I don't think there's any better feeling than to glide around in the water in a little kayak......  The kids had fun riding with us too

Lucy in the boat....she wanted to stand up and touch the water the WHOLE time

big smiles from Macy

Lucy had SO Much fun that she passed out!! 

Lane said he wanted to try out the kayaks!  I was pretty excited.  He did AWESOME!!! a few pointers on steering the boat, and he was off!  He's a total natural!  Totally time to get him his own kayak....and maybe a little smaller oar :)

He is such a stud.....I love this little boy!!

Here's the big part of the lake we kayaked across..... Pretty isn't it!

Here's the little duck family that me and Lucy chased around :)  they were so cute!

at the end of our ride, here's the girls :) Both of them passed out, it was pretty hilarious!  So apparently EVERY toy we have from dirtbikes to kayaks, our kids find soothing and sleep inducing.  Oh well...:)  Looking at this picture, I feel the need to announce that YES, I am expecting and that is NOT just a large root beer gut I am sporting!  Baby #4 coming in November....don't ask if it's a boy or a girl, because we're not going to find out! :)

Memorial day!

Memorial day part 1!    This is going to take a couple posts to get all of our memorial weekend updated. With our internet, I would be up all night trying to download all of our pictures :)

This year, we went camping with our good friends, the Cherringtons (and also the Bolle's for a night!)  up at the Chain Lakes.  We stayed for about 4 days.  It was SOO fun, and a nice get away, and so fun to catch up with our friends!!  The kids did awesome, and had a blast playing...

lane found a worm.  He wanted to keep it for his pet

Lucy, Izzie, and Chance digging holes.  Digging holes, and playing in the dirt proved to be a favorite pretty much every day!

Jessica with sleeping kid :)  She was showing off their amazing  dutch oven pizza!  JEALOUS!!! It was a far cry from our hot dogs on the fire :)

Lucy and Macy at the campfire.  

I think Macy had her eyes closed in every picture I took that night :)

Noah ready for fishing!

We kayaked and canoed across the lake, down a little channel to a little spillway where  we  could fish without a million people.  The older kids fished, while the younger ones had a blast throwing rocks into the water!

I had to snatch a pic with Lucy in between throwing rocks!

Lucy  could have sat and thrown rocks for hours I think...

Me and Jade!


To be continued......