Please accept our apologies....

Currently we are too busy enjoying summer to spend time blogging! Here are a few pics of all that's going on, maybe someday we'll have time to blog about all of it... Thank you for understanding!:)

Mountain Shadows Retreat....

Or so we call it. When we got married we moved into some apartments called the Mountain Shadow Apartments. Six months later, my cousin got married and they moved into the same apts. Soon after that, our friends got married and moved in there as well, although, when they moved in we weren't friends. Through our 5 years of living there, we formed a great friendship between all of us. We started going on an annual camping trip about 7 years ago, with the exception of last year due to Alex being born... yada, yada, yada. This year we started again, and were so glad! We really missed not being able to go last year!
When we started these camping trips, there were 6 adults, and 1 child. Now you can see what we've blossomed into....

Our family arrived on Thursday afternoon, set up camp, took a little walk, and just spent some time together. We roasted hot dogs for dinner, and of course had to top it off with s'mores!


Sam really enjoyed his!
That night after we got the kids to bed, Gary and I hung out being hypnotized by the fire. We decided that we should probably just go to bed. Well, just as we were dozing off, the coyotes started howling... they stopped, we dozed off again, and Alex started howling! I took Alex into my sleeping bag and we "slept", at least he did. Later that night, the coyotes started howling again. Thankfully, not waking the kids up. About 2 hours later, they came back. At this point Sam began tapping me on the shoulder.... "Mom... mom... is that wolves?" "No Sam, go back to sleep." Did he follow my advice? Oh, heavens no. Why on earth would he do that? So Sam was awake from 4 a.m. until about 9 p.m.
Friday morning Gary and Sam went fishing while Alex slept and I dozed off and on in the camp chair sitting by the fire. Sam is still thrilled to use his flyrod, and always enjoys fishing with dad!

We spent lots of time hanging out together, throwing rocks in the river, fishing, hiking and eating lots of good food and treats!
The kids had a blast swinging in the hammock (until they broke it), and playing in the dirt.



Lucy had a blast too! Although she didn't want to swim, she did like cooling off in the water!

She also made lots of new friends...

Just a few more random pics of the trip...




Thanks Post-Mountain Shadows Tenants! We had a blast!

Ice Cream...

You know, Ice Cream....

Isn't just for humans....

At least that's what Lucy thinks!