All the kids looked so cute in the trees laden with snow!
Jared....
Talbert and Karen invited us up to their family's cabin since it was a long weekend! It was great fun! The kids get along so well, and so look forward to being together! We drove up there and as we were unloading, the first snowflakes fell. The next morning we woke up to snow!
When we first got there, the cabin was pretty cold! The kids liked watching their breath inside the cabin. Karen and I left the oven open after the pizza came out to warm up a bit!
Everybody huddled near a heater until the fire got going!
PJ's, hot chocolate, good friends, and comic books....can life get any better?
We were wet when we came in after playing in the snow!
Morgan loves to write in her diary!
Go fish!
On the way back from the Redwoods, we stopped at the ocean again and stayed till 5. The kids had a great time again.
My sweet hubby.......
Today we enjoyed walking thru a grove of redwoods. It was another sunny beautiful day, so we were glad as it is never sunny inside a grove of redwoods! We were able to take Chloe along on all the paved trails, so she got a good walk in as well. Jared especially was fascinated with the size of the trees.
Even though it was so dark in there that the pictures didn't really turn out, I thought it was so cute seeing the 3 boys walking together.
The last beach we stopped at was the typical sandy beach with some pretty tall sand dunes. The day was getting cooler, but we played the longest here.....
We decided to have a little getaway and go to the ocean. We'll be here for 4 nights/5 days....we could not have picked a better day yesterday for time at the beach. It was sunny, and very little wind. We hardly needed a coat in the afternoon.
Jared asked me to add these pictures! When we were at Kelvin and Leila's, Kelvin got out his guitar and accompanied Jared on the piano. Then he very graciously gave Jared a lesson and let him play to his heart's content! Jared was enthralled. He's been asking for lessons for a long time...we've told him after he takes more piano lessons (which he does love) and gets a better understanding of music, then we'll let him get a guitar. He definitely loves music!!
We sure enjoyed the day. It was overcast the whole time, so in spite of the heat, it was very comfortable. The breeze was blowing, as well, so the bugs weren't biting. Uncle Kelvin and the boys had mud baths out there, and had a blast!
Piper...where do I even begin? Such a sweetie...and such a pretty thing, too...I can hardly stand being so far away! But it was so nice to be with them. We spent a couple of nights there....they treated us royally...I wasn't expecting to "play" so much w/ them having such a wee one...but we went to the lake, went fishing, went out to eat, etc....was so nice. We thoroughly enjoyed our time together.
What a doll...I have so many pictures, it was hard to choose which ones to put on here.
Kelvin and Leila bought the boys a fishing pole and tackle boxes. There is a fishing pond there for kids 14 and under. The 2 older boys caught several, but Byron just got bites. Byron was the biggest trooper of all, never complaining! Think HOT (as in 100 in the shade and we were in the sun), and biting flies! And Byron just hung in there trying to get a fish! They are talking tons about their next fishing trip!
Devil's Tower was a fun detour. Neither of us had ever seen it before, and pictures just do not do it justice. It was way bigger than we'd ever expected. We hiked around the perimeter of it. Was fun.
When Byron saw these rock climbers way up there (this is on zoom, you could just see white dots)....he wondered, Mom, why are they still building it?
