4th of July

This weekend we went camping with The Morgan's. We had so much fun! It was all about celebrating America, though!

We went camping at our favorite camping place...Rancho California RV Resort! What a wonderful place that is with pools and lots of green grass to run around in!

We also had plenty of food, including donuts to eat!

Mike and Leslie had bought a $5 slip and slide and it kept the 4 boys busy all weekend! They ran through the water had fun and kept entertained! Here are some goofy pictures of that!

Another highlight was the golf cart parade that went through the park on Sunday afternoon. All the boy were very into this parade. It was very fun and a good way to spend the afternoon!

Chase, Cody and Cash waving to the parade goers!

We differently had a fun and great weekend!

Memorial Day Camping

This last weekend we went camping at Rancho California RV Resort. The most perfect camping place that we have around here. It is only about an hour drive from us...so beautiful!!

We went with The Greens, and The Morgans, we had a total of 6 kids under the age of 4 1/2. Everyone got along perfect with no problems. It made for a very relaxing weekend with some great friends.

One of the major reasons behind this great campground is the green grass for ever. It is so pretty coming from someone that can't keep grass growing in her yard. We played a bunch of kickball and golf on this great grass. Ran around and burnt a lot of energy!

We also rode our bikes up and down the street right in front of our motorhomes. The kids did a wonderful job of pulling over to the side when a golf cart or other people on bikes would get close.

We also rode our bikes around the campground a few times during the long weekend. It was a great way to spend the weekend!


Of course, we blow'd bubbles, colored, and ate!! We had a great weekend and can't wait to go back again!!

Makes My Monday

This weekend, we spent at the desert, Glamis, with 5 other families. We don't normally go to Glamis because the jeep isn't set up for the soft sand, so instead we just took the Rhino and had a great time.
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The weather was perfect and really on the warmer side. We spent Saturday looking at big, blue beautiful skies, the boys spent a lot of time bunch of riding quads and playing in the dirt.

Chase stopping for a second for a picture. He is getting so bad at taking pictures that he gets really upset, when I take out the camera!

Cody didn't feel 100% all weekend, but he was a trooper and still had a great time. I am hoping that whatever he has will pass today. He just has no symptoms just not feeling good.

These dump trucks were ran everywhere in our circle, all the kids had a similar dump truck and it was always filled with dirt!

Chase and Cash filling up their dump truck.

We had a great time and can't wait to go back to the desert again with great families!

Makes My Monday

This week what Makes My Monday is our memories from our camping trip this weekend.

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We camped locally by the bay, but we had great weather and a lot of fun!
Chase and Cody playing with the their new boogie board that grandma had bought them.

We did a lot of scooting and bike riding.

Chase liked the sand better than the water. He was trying to make sand castles, but mainly was just a bucket of mud!

Grandma had brought some balloons with her and it was the highlight of the camping trip. The boys had grandpa, dad, or cousin Tyler blow up the balloons. Once they were stretched out enough Chase and Cody could blow them up. They were so excited that they were big enough to blow up balloons!

Taking a break and eating some grapes.

We can't wait to go camping again!!

Ever Petted a Deer?

We visited a deer petting farm while we were in Arizona this past weekend. I had never petted a deer before and thought hey that might be kind of neat for the kids. The kid's did enjoy it. They were able to pet and feed the deer.

Deer are not that soft like they look, there fur is very wirery. They were all very friendly and very hungry!



Cody feeding the deer.

Chase feeding the deer.

Tatum feeding the deer.

Tyler feeding the deer.

On this petting farm there were also pigeon's, buffalo, peacocks, goats, pot belly pigs, camels, and many other animals.

On Tuesday, when Chase and Cody went back to school this is the one thing that stuck in their head and Cody told his teacher that he fed a deer.

Fishing

On last Sunday, while we were visiting Williams, AZ, we went fishing at White Horse Lake. Now White Horse Lake was about 10 miles from where we were camping. We could have taken actual roads to get there, but decided that a forest service road would a better route in the jeeps. This was a red hard packed dirt road that was awesome. The beautiful pine trees and the big and little house's nestled in the pine trees were spectacular.

When we arrived at White Horse Lake, this is what we found:



A beautiful lake with lots of fish, they said. There was a lot of people fishing. We found our good spot and started to put together fishing poles.


This is what Dennis is doing in this picture, of course he always had one (or two) kids around him waiting for their turn to fish.

In the meantime, Tatum had the container full of live worms and decided to open them and dump them out (I didn't get a picture) but it was too cute, she kept walking around saying "Ot-Oh", we figured out what she did after a few minutes. Only a few worms got away in the big escape.

Also Steve cut is middle finger with his knife pretty bad. It probably took us (him) an hour to get the bleeding stopped. It finally stopped bleeding, I really thought we were going to have to find the closest medical center for some stitches, but it has been healing good.


You can see him in this picture with his hand up but also fishing.

Cody has Tatum's fishing pole here and trying to catch a shark (that's what he told me!).

Here are some other pictures of us fishing:

Chase

Steve and Cody trying to catch the big one.

Cody fishing.

Every time we would get the fishing line casted for the boys, they would start reeling in and somehow get the fishing line so tangled up that it would take another 15 minutes to get it untangled.

About 2 hours after we got there, we looked over to our left and realized that a lot of the other people fishing had left because in the sky there was a huge thunder cloud as dark as night, over head. You should have seen us grab the kids and our fishing poles and we got out of there. It had taken us 2 hours to set everything up and probably 2 minutes to get out of there and to the car. It was probably a sight to see from a distance!

Needless to say, we never did catch any fish, but what an experience.

Visting the Grand Canyon

Over the weekend, we went camping in Williams, AZ, which is about 1 hour from the Grand Canyon. We went to the Grand Canyon on Saturday, the weather when we left our campground was starting to clear up from the morning rain. As we arrived at the Grand Canyon beautiful sky and white fluffy clouds, weather was good. The park was very crowded, which I suspect is the normal.

I had never been to the Grand Canyon before, what an amzing sight. Here are some of the pictures I took.

Chase, Tatum, and Cody

Steve and Chase

Everyone

As we were leaving, it started to get very cold, and this huge thunderstorm cloud, moved in on top of us. It poured rain and hail for about 20 minutes as we wre driving. It was really loud in the jeep and as it was letting up and stopping Chase says "Do it again Daddy!" He thought it was pretty cool!