June 2010

This was the last time that my family was able to go to Whiskeytown! We missed this year because I was huge pregnant and contracting constantly and for some reason the summer Whiskeytown trip never happened! This trip I also had to fly solo. Peter's Grandpa had passed away a few days prior to the trip and Peter was helping with funeral arrangements and finishing work deadlines that he'd plan to put off until after Whiskeytown which was when the funeral was planned. Anyway! It was a crazy 13 hour drive by myself with 5 kids and we could only stay for 2 days so it was a whirlwind of fun for us! ... No seriously, it really was a lot of fun and I didn't regret it for a second!

Cute Logan not long after we arrived. We didn't waste any time jumping into the lake, one our our favorite camping activities!

Here's Nathan, Maddie and Lauren playing on the big blow up "island". The kids spent forever this trip pulling the island into the middle of the cove and doing tricks while jumping off of it.

Nathan and Emily just floating around the cove soaking up the sun!

Life jackets are required for all of the kids on the boat. No matter what! So here's little Nate-man just obeying the rules, even though he's drowning in his adult sized life jacket!

Here's me and Emily, getting all set for our "Midnight" ride or "Moonlight" ride or "Drive-around-silently-in-the-dark-until-the-little-ones-fall-asleep" ride! :)

Aaron and Chloe. (Looks like Chloe is too excited to be on the boat to be falling for any of this falling asleep business!)

Emily, Grandma DaNae and Britta relaxing in the hammock

Madeline and Lauren doing the same!

Tyler and Drew, climbing and being boys!

Emily, Nathan, Wes and Brynne hanging out around the campfire in the morning!

We found a snake slithering around the "kitchen" and spent awhile trying to decide if it was red on black stripes or red on white stripes that meant we had a poisonous snake on our hands. We finally decided that it was "Red on White - Take Flight" and "Red on Black - friend of Jack". So we let a few of the daring kids hold him before we let him go.

Tyler

Amber

Lauren, Nathan, Sequoia and Drew roasting Marshmallows

Emily with her s'more in one hand and her starburst (about to be roasted) in the other!

Madeline and her s'more

Tyler has no problem eating his s'more with filthy black hands. I guess as the saying goes, "God made dirt, so dirt don't hurt" (Grandma and Chloe on Grandpa's lap in the background)