Byron was so pleased...Chloe was lying on his leg.....she LOVES her bedroom as we call it....if we can't find her....there she is....in her little den all snug as a bug!

Waterfall

Shiver.....

Father's Day Pictures

The boys wanted Chloe in the line-up as well. I have a feeling she'll always be in the back....As for the other boys....well, at the rate they are growing, who knows what the final line-up will look like!

Father's Day

The boys all had their homemade (or shall I say schoolmade) cards for Dad. It was very cute.
Oooh...a lawn edger!
My dad likes....

Baseball

me

Mom

Father's Day

basketball!

Dear Dad,

Happy Father's Day! You are an

awesome dad!

Love,

Byron

M:akes me happy

Y:es! He helps me

F:ather of Jared

A:wesome person

T:he best person in the world

H:e makes people happy

E:xcellent dad

R:obert's the best!

(by Jared)

This year the Little League decided to have a "T-ball all-stars game"....Byron was invited to play. It was so exciting for the boys b/c they actually got to play on the real field for the first time....be in real dugouts, etc! Here he is all ready....going for the home run.

Oh...missed...sure got the T though!
Oh, MAN! Missed again!
There we go...finally got a good hit!
Rounding 3rd...

Trent announcing when his little brother came up to bat!

The Sandy Beach

This beach was a sandy beach we went to....you can see it's quite a hike down. Was fun.

These are the dunes we enjoyed climbing. From the picture you can't really see how steep they were. The last 10' or so were hard to make....the sand kept slipping out from under you and you had nothing to hold onto! It was so fun! Especially jumping or running down them!


During this day, Byron just kept up so well with his older brothers. We did a lot of hiking, and only being a 5 year old did not stop him. At times, though, he'd tell me, "Mom, I think we should go back to the hotel to rest".....WELL....we went back around dinner time, and while I was giving him a love, I thought he felt warm...we got back to the room, and sure enough...102 fever! The next day Jared woke up with 102 as well! So that was the end of the fun for us! But I felt so bad for Byron....doing all that while he was sick! They were both sick for several days.

The Tide Pools

These are some of the tide pool life we saw.....

Miwok Village

While we were there, we toured the Miwok Village. It shows a lot of old Indian houses....the kids sure enjoyed going in them!


They had these little bird-house like openings. Many of them were really quite deep into the ground. Some were sweathouses.

Ocean Time

We had a fun trip to the coast. Robert had to work, so we got to go along with him since we are out of school now! It was about a 5 hour trip. One day, the boys and I took a daytrip to a neat point right on the coast. It was beautiful. This place had a bunch of tide pools. We saw sooo many neat things...clams, tons of shells, etc. all sticking to the rocks while the tide was out.

We so lucked out with the weather. Usually it is so foggy and cold there. Even quite windy. But we ended up shedding most of our layers. It was even clear blue sky!

It was quite a hike down to the water. At one point, this steep staircase was more like a ladder as much of the dirt was washed away underneath.
There were so many rocks to climb on and around. We thought the middle one in the picture above looked like a toad.
We had a picnic lunch down there. The beach was so deserted that when one person showed up, we felt intruded upon!

On top of one of the rocks we climbed up on looking down at the tide pools.

Just a few random pictures from our yard...I'm more of a foliage lover than a flower lover....and I especially love the yellow and purple leaved plants that so contrast with the green....The deep purple plants don't really show up in these pictures....they look faint in color when in actuality they are quite deep!