Camping 2011

This year for our annual camping trip we decided to go to Jolley's Ranch up Hobblecreek canyon in Springville. We usually go up American Fork canyon but with Isaac being so young we wanted to be a little closer to home just in case. We had a lot of fun! It was Isaac's first camping trip :)

We always do tin foil dinners the first night :) This has been a tradition of ours since before we had kids!

Sleeping in a tent with all four of us, one being a baby = no one slept very well. Oh well, its all part of the experience I guess! I am always so worried about the kids being warm enough that I ended up sleeping horrible the first night. Then Isaac woke up at like 5:30am so I took him outside of the tent to keep him from waking everyone else up.

So cute, Daddy & Malea snuggling

While we were up there we saw SO many caterpillars! It was really cool. This is one of my favorite pictures, you can just see on her face how proud she is (see the caterpillar on her hand). She ended up putting it in a cup with some leaves and it turned itself in to a caccoon!

Daddy cooking the bacon :) For the record I cooked everything else, but the grease splattering on a gas stove makes the flames roar and it always freaks me out!

Much needed nap time :)

This was so funny....there is a little doggy door on our tent, and when I was walking back from taking Malea to the bathroom Isaac saw me and started crying. I took this cute picture :) This was at the height of his separation anxiety/I-only-want-mommy phase

We took Malea down to a part of the creek that was not as fast and more shallow (most parts of the water were SO fast and really high this year, it was scary). She had fun playing in the water even though it was sooo cold. Isaac didn't like it for very long....I don't know how Malea could stand it!

Muddy Bum :)

Hanging out by the fire....one of my favorite parts of camping

(Malea looks so big in that hiking backpack lol)

After playing at the nearby playground, we went back and roasted 'mallows and then went to bed early that second night....we were pooped!

Washington Trip 2011

We just got back from visiting Keith's parents for the 4th of July....it was lots of fun! We haven't been since summer of 2009 because I was pregnant with Isaac all last year and didn't really feel up to traveling :P

The kids did surprisingly well on the drive, I actually had a harder time than them! (I get car sick really bad...not fun). We rented a Hyundai Sonata, which I absolutely loved. It had XM radio, so Keith and I had a blast rocking out to the 90's channel! I was so sad to have to give that car back :(

Grandma "Dub" had the pool set up when we got there :)

It was fun seeing friends we hadn't seen for a while!

(L to R: Chud, Emily & baby Isaac Lundgreen, Desiree, John, & Tommy Wolfgramm, and us)

Family photo
4th of July

Family BBQ....the food was so yummy!

Waiting for the fireworks to start. They do a fireworks show over the Columbia River, it was way cool!

We decided to also spend a day and drive out to Seattle. Its about 3 1/2-4 hours from the tri-cities. We visited with some friends out there and saw the waterfront. We also ate at the yummy fish house Ivar's, it was so good!

We met up with our friend Bri Wilson (her husband Ben was out of town unfortunately) and spent the day with her and their cute girls. Malea had a blast playing with them!

(Ginny, Vera, Malea, & Violet)

Seattle Waterfront

We got Malea the same Seattle bear (in pink) when we were there 2 years ago :)

Bri also took us to the Seattle Center Children's Museum, they have so many fun things for kids to do!

After the museum we met up with the other Wilson's (Brandon and Ashley) at a park and had pizza. We were excited to meet baby Ezra for the first time!

Bri was nice enough to let us spend the night at their house. Malea and the girls had fun playing dress-up :)

After we got back from Seattle, you could tell the kids (Malea especially) were starting to burn out. We wanted to make sure and do the last thing on our list though, which was to go for a ride on the boat.

Here's a picture of the kids with Grandma and Grandpa "Dub" the night before we were leaving (we weren't going to see Grandpa in the morning because he had to work)

We had so much fun!