Lake Almanor

The boys and I were lucky enough to be invited to our friends lake house at Lake Almanor. We got to go about 6 years ago and have wanted to go again, and it finally worked out this year. We had such a great time. What better way to spend your birthday then, soaking up the sun, tubing behind a boat, knee boarding, jet skis, kayaking, eating yummy food all day long, and being with friends. The boys loved it and had so much fun being with friends and even making some new friends. The earliest the boys went to bed was 11pm(to say the least we are still catching up on sleep). Every night at 9 they would start playing Jail Keeper outside. I think that was Brevin's favorite part. I think Zack's favorite part was every night we would play Just Dance on the Wii, yes even all the moms did. One night we had about a group of 15 moms and kids all dancing together....So fun and Funny! Below is Zack, JT, Jeremy, and Skyler dancing.

Great day at the Beach

Jodie came to visit this last week(which is one of my favorite things). I had so much fun and my kids love it when they come to visit. Especially when Jodie brings the ingredients to make Monster cookies(unfortunately I forgot to take picture of the cookies, way yummy). On the last day they were here we took a trip to the beach! It was such a great day at the beach, sunny, warm, and cousins. Zack is so glad that Marin will play in the waves with him, because the rest of us our wimps and just like to play in the sand! Zack and Marin just cracked me up, they would get knocked over and tumble and go right back at it.....good times!

Beautiful Idaho

I forget how beautiful Idaho can be. Dad and Mom took us on a 20 miler(round trip) in the back country of Idaho, on the ATV's. I just loved the blue sky and open land. I don't think I ever appreciated the beauty of this area before....not that I want to move back....but it was just really fun.

The trail that we were on took us to the City of Rocks, which is north of Gooding. We had lots of fun climbing over and in between all the rock formations. We made dad lead the way and search for Rattle snakes for us. Thankfully there were not any out.

Gopher!?!

I went out to water yesterday and when I went to grab the hose, something moved. I totally jumped(I'm not going to lie). I yelled to the boys and told them I found a snake. They came running, they were so excited. After looking to make sure it wasn't a baby rattler, we decided the boys could pick it up. They Loved It! We happen to have some friends ride by on their bikes and told us it's a gopher snake. So the boys made a little home in the box above, but as you can see the snake had no problem getting out.......so the boys added some more barriers in hopes of keeping it for awhile. Well.....we left to go to the movie and when we came back, it was gone. JT was quit sad, he really liked it. So the last 2 days all I've heard is, "when are we going to get a snake?" Let's just say, it won't be anytime soon!:)