California Trip Day 2-Battery Point Light House, Jedidiah Smith Redwood State Park, Tree's of Mystery and Fern Canyon

We got up early (before 7) had breakfast at the hotel, then went to Battery Point Lighthouse. We met up with Mikes parents at the hotel.

It was pretty neat. Supposedly the first lighthouse in California.

Bensen didn't like getting his picture taken.

We found a lot of seashells and crabs.

Then we met up with Emily and Josh and went to the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park.

We were amazed at all the giant trees. We stopped at the Stout Memorial Grove trail.

The kids loved it!

They were all over the place, climbing on everything.

From there we drove to the Tree's of Mystery. With a small beach stop on the way.

This was a great stop!

We saw a lot of different trees.

We rode the Sky rail. Which the kids love loved it!

The kids loved the Pooped Logger.

After that we drove to Fern Canyon.

 Again, the kids loved it!

 We hiked up a little stream and there were ferns growing off of the walls.

We made them turn around before we got to the end, they were pretty bummed. But we were hoping to get back and do some things before we went to our hotel.

See the next post for the rest of our day. :)

California Trip Day 1

We came home from Huntington Lake, had enough time to was some laundry and sleep. Mike woke up feeling really sick! I've never seen him so sick and in pain. I took him to the doctor, they thought he had a kidney stone! It was scary to see him so sick and in pain. Between what happened with Jaime and now Mike being sick I was a mess. Too much stress for me. So now I wasn't sure if I should pack or not. I decided to get clothes packed. Later that evening I noticed Vivian had a rash all over her body. I thought since we were going to be gone I better take her and Bensen(he had been complaining of a sore bum for a while) into WeeCare. Turns out they both had Strep! At this point I am thinking we better just stay home. I had a soccer game that I went to as soon as I dropped off the kids at home. After my soccer game me and Amber went and picked up the kids medicine.

When I got home nothing was packed in the car, so I figured we were staying home.

I got in bed around 12:30. Mike woke me up at 3 to start packing. We were doing this! So we packed everything up and headed out around 4:30. We didn't stop until about 10:20 for breakfast. Then we drove for a LONG time. We stropped around 5 at Jack In The Box for dinner. Oh, Mike still doesn't feel very good, but we stayed on track and got to our Hotel around 7:30.

Then we headed to to Pebble Beach for the sunset.

It was amazing!

The kids loved it!

They were all soaked, dirty, and cold.

They found a lot of seashells and rocks.

I am so glad Mike kept us on track. Making it for the sunset was awesome.

I am sure grateful for Mike! He is pretty amazing.

We were all happy to be out of the car, but we were all pretty tired and ready for bed also.

Huntington Lake

We liked Huntington Lake so much last year we decided to come again this year!

This time Trevor and Jaime came with us too.

The water was much lower, so we had to walk a lot farther to get to it.

There was also a lot more mud!

It wasn't normal mud it was more like clay, and it was everywhere!

The kids dug a hole and made a mud pit, and pretty much lived in it the rest of the trip.

We had a lot of fun kayaking, one morning we went around the whole lake.

I talked Amber and Jaime into riding the tube with me. It was a lot of fun until it wasn't!

Jaime was trying to record with her Go Pro, so she wasn't holding on with her right hand.  She kept banging into me. On a really big wave she came down on my shoulder. I heard a crack...I thought it was my neck. Then we hit another big wave and I was thinking I needed to be done because my neck hurt. Me and Amber were laughing then we looked over and saw Jaime.

She was reclined back, she looked really pale, and she was saying "I can't breath, I can't breath, I can't breath." It was pretty scary. My dad backed the boat up so fast. He was telling us to take her life jacket off. We didn't take it off, but we did undo it. We knew if she fell in the water without a life jacket on she would drowned. She really couldn't move at all. At first we thought she just had the wind knocked out of her. But when it didn't go away we were worried it was her ribs or her back. We didn't want to try to take her out of the tube while on the water, so we went into shore.

Once on shore we pulled the tube up onto the mud. We were trying to figure out how we were going to get her out of the tube. Trevor ran up to drive the car down onto the beach. It was obvious that she was in a lot of pain. She had tried to get out on her own and couldn't. So I got behind her and lifted her up. Once she was up she said she could breath a little easier. Getting her in the car was horrible. She was crying and in pain. Once they got her in the car they gave her a blessing and they were off to the Price Hospital.

We waiting awhile to hear what was going on. They did an x-ray, told her she had a couple of broken ribs, there was nothing they could really do for her. They were about to send her home when she asked about the pain she was having up by her collarbone. So the Dr. excused himself for a minute. I', not exactly sure how it all went down, but in the end she had multiple broken ribs, front and back and a perforated or collapsed lung! They kept her in the hospital overnight to keep an eye on her.

Me and Mike left that night, we had our California Trip to get ready for. Everyone else left the next day.

Jaycee had a Birthday, Shout Hooray!

Happy Birthday Jaycee!

And just like that she is 11!

In the morning Jaycee opened her presents, then we went to see the movie "The Incredibles", and to Chick-fil-a for lunch.

Then we came home to get ready for her party.

She decided to have a party at home she invited a bunch of her friends and played games.

When it got dark they played night games.

She had a lot of fun, I think the party was a success.

Jaycee loves to play soccer, basketball, doing tricks on the tramp, going boating, and playing with her cousins.

Her favorite color is blue, and her favorite food is Bajios Green Chicken Chili salad.

 She is very helpful and a good big sister.

We also got to celebrate Fathers this weekend. Mike is the best dad and we sure love him!

We are also pretty fond of our Grandpas. They are the best!

Happy Father's day to our Dads!

Last Day of School

June first was the last day of school for these two! I'm already thinking "What are we going to do all summer?"

The kids loved their teachers this year, and they both grew and learned so much!

We love that the kids get to go to school with their cousins. They are so lucky!

Ok summer, bring it on!