Back Log #7: Summer Fun

These first pictures are from a camping trip we made to Sterling 4th of July weekend. We camped about 30 min. down the road my Grandparents live down and they were generous enough to go down and park their motor home in a spot so we would have a spot on the lake and also stay in their motor home for a couple of nights. My Uncle Rich also helped by sharing his screened in tent so the boys could play in there without being eaten alive by the mosquitoes. He also shared his canoe with us, and then on the last day brought his river boat and gave us all a ride around the lake. It was a great time and we were blessed with wonderful company and weather!

Mateo's first experience with fresh cherries! He loved them and he did a great job eating around the "seed".

The beautiful loons...it is so fun to listen to them on the lake.

Great Grandma and Great Grandpa with the boys! Our boys adore them! What precious times we are blessed with them!

Our picnic at Cooper's Landing on the drive back home! It is so fun to take your time traveling back and stopping at places you don't always take the time to do. This is one of the most gorgeous places in Alaska (my opinion...not that you can tell from the pictures.)

All summer, 2 times a week I have 5 boys at my house. Most the time it has been great! And a lot easier than I expected...as long as I stayed organized in my head (two babies close to the same age). This picture cracks me up...we don't watch t.v. very often (don't have tv just computer)...but I popped in a 20 min. BOZ video while I made everyone lunch...this was their reaction the whole time.

Snuggles with my big boy after a bath! I love that fresh smell and soft young skin!

Produce from our small expiremental garden...it has been so fun and we are learning a lot! (mostly what to do better and expect next time)

Aunt Missy and Uncle John came up for a visit and their birthday gift for Mateo was a year unlimited pass to Alaska Animal Conservation Center...or something like that...but it is a lot of fun and so cool to be so close to big wild animals. Noah loves to drive by the way!! ( don't worry folks 5 miles an hour tops...and we were in and out all the time- it was raining)

We had an accident in the restroom and had not brought any extra pants, so we did what we could figure out with a hooded sweatshirt...all we were missing from this truly Alaskan expirence was some duct tape!

Aunt Mindy reading to Mateo.

My pretty Mom (aka Granny)

Papaw came to visit and we went down to the creek to try some fishing, ran into and got to watch a big bull moose 20-30 feet away, and then came back home to do some reading.

And just to brag in astonishment about how smart one of my little guy is here is a picture of what Mateo showed me he did. (In less than the minute I left him to go find something inside, he had threaded/stuck his "wheat grass" all the way down the dandy lion tube. He amazes us in how many little details he notices and is intrigued by! He could be an engineer!