Father's Day

Our Mountain Man came home Saturday dirty and hairy from a week long Scout Camp. Jeff got to go with him since he is 11 and Ryan stayed the whole time. Jeff got 6 1/2 merit badges, thank you very much! Jeff was made for Scout Camp. They had a great time.

So he was just in time for Father's Day and we were very anxious for him to be home!! We made him french toast which he seemed to like a lot and the kids gave him gifts and cards and he was adored.

I think he thinks we like him.

Our California trip was lots of fun. We had good times at the beach and we had a great time with cousins.

Seaworld was lots of fun.

Ryan, Jeff and Pete had to leave partway thru so that the big boys could go to scout camp. They should be home from that later today and that is happy news because I miss them.

We went to see the Midway, a great big battleship turned museum. The tour is really quite good and the kids had fun. Here's Leah and Tessa trying out the radio room. Tessa said she is good at knobs and buttons so she could work there.

Here they are getting their mission briefings.



Here they are on the flight deck about to take off.

The beach was always fun to play at and it was handy that it was about a minutes walk from the house.

We went to the Mormon Battalion Museum and it was really cool. They have a really fun tour and we got to pan for gold after. I loved spending time with my sisters and the kids LOVED spending time with their cousins. I am totally in for next summer!

Nine!

Tessa got to celebrate her birthday out of town this year. We were staying at a fabulous beach house in San Diego for a week thanks to my talented and lovely sister, Amanda. So we ended up going to Sea World on Tessa's birthday.


I'm pretty sure she liked it. We love you Pickles! You are super fun.

There will be more about our trip tomorrow. . .