All In A Day's Fun

Here are a few more pictures for ya'all:)

Bruce helping us get set up for a day of fishing and hiking
Kamdyn trying to help himself to Tiera's cereal;)
He loved the wilderness!

This is how Shane, Katiera, and Mackaila spent the mornings. I think by the time we left they pretty much knew the names of most of the dogs and cats in the area! lol

I was in charge of feeding the guys breakfast and lunch, so we always planned our excursions for afternoon.

Im making breakfast here. chopping some onoin:)
Enjoy! More to come....

Olallie Lake Resort

Wow, what a week!! It was alot of fun, so beautiful, exhausting, completely dirty and sooo worth it!!

one of the cabins

olallie shoreline

this is 1 of the many hiking trails we went on

The view from the cabin next to ours
So we head out on Monday morning, with bruce's trusty GPS and I may have some trust issues! lol Even tho we have the thing I always wonder does this thing really know how to get us where we need to be? Answer: NO!!! We got so lost, we left from the Vanc. area at 10:30 and didn't get there til 4:30ish! It was supposed to take 3 hrs but a bunch of the roads no longer exist and there are a few different ways to get there apparently:) We drove down so many roads that started out decent then would get really bumpy and pretty soon grass is growing between the tire tracks and it totally peters out!! So after ALOT of praying I finally just stopped the van right there on the road where it clearly in yellow writing across the road says "Olallie" with an arrow pointing the way, I just stopped and told Anita I'm not moving from this spot til I know exactly where to go!! Oh yeah and I also had to worry about gas cuz the last place to get it was about 50 miles back down the mountain and I had driven all over the stinkin place already! I think we sat there maybe 5/10 mins when this couple pulled up next to us and thank the Lord they had a map!! {stupid GPS!!} Well after looking at the map and having numerous other people stop with the same question I was really begining to wonder if we would find it. Then we find out that the people helping us are from New York! Talk about the blind leading the blind hey?;) But we eventually did see it on the map and once again headed up a road we had already travelled bypassing the one the GPS told us to turn down. {stupid GPS} We finally arrived to find my hubby ready to head out to come find us if only he knew where to start looking! So kinda a bumpy start but once there all is well:) Thats all for now! More this afternoon probly...

Summer Aventure!!

Well we are off on a real live adventure! To a historical lake resort...meaning no cell service, no electricity, and no cell service...yeah insane I know but im excited!! So I'll be back ina week maybe two (depends if i can handle more than one!) with stories and im sure a TON of pictures!
see ya later:) H.

Just A Little Scrap

So this used to be one of those hanging candle holders. Lily found them at the Treasure Barn and figured we could prob use them somehow. We came up with a few ideas which at this moment I can not remember what they were;)

So while we were getting ready to put up the curtains this idea came to mind...
Sooo???

We are gonna put a bible verse there in the center to make it complete.

Berry Pickin'

My good friend Sonya invited me to come over and pick berries to our hearts content. She has already picked bunches of them and after this year her hubby will be clearing the bushes out. I thought it would be fun for the kids they don't remember the strawberry picking we used to do. Ya know back when I only had 2 kids was on top of things;) I'm sure I'll get used to 4 someday and ya'all won't have to listen to me whine...teehee;) Anyway I have gotten sidetracked hmmmm....maybe thats the problem?!?! Man! Ok back to the berries...the kids had fun, I had fun watching them and trying to pick berries while holding Kamdyn and trying not to get too scratched up! Max did really good he was the only one really interested in actually picking them. He would pick one and say "oooh dis is a big duicy one!" and then pop it into his mouth!! Shane, Tiera, and Ella were all trying to pick some but they mostly asked Sonya , Megan, or I to put some of ours in thier buckets! Oh well they were running around the woods having a grand old time:) Oh and Sonya and her sister Megan pretty much picked most of the berries for me...Thanks girls:)

weighing the berries: 7lbs 7oz.!
We made a full circle of the property. The girls with thier buckets...

This is what Kam did most of the time:)

Pretty decent sized berries

Yummm!!

Whoo Hooo!!

Birthday party pictures:

Not really sure what the 1 is about?? lol
Tiera, Ella and Mackaila

Waiting for presents

Doing the shirts...total hit!!

The boys got pretty creative;)

And also tell me when did boys start liking the color pink????

Scrunch them, spray them, twist them, spray them again

Eating it up!

Oh yes we even had water balloons!

Course the boys loved it the girls wanted to love it

but anytime they got hit they would come running and crying! lol

They just didnt want to throw them they wanted to carry them around in buckets like they were dolls;)

This is 1 of the two we had set up.

the girls would run use the chalkboard then run hop in the pool!

Drinks!

In the pool, even Grandma went in!

We set this up and were really glad we had cuz it got pretty hot in the sun!!
All in all AWESOME day!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Shane and Katiera

God Bless!

All Partied Out!

Whew! Thank goodness it's over:) My 2 oldest kids Shane and Katiera have birthdays 5 days apart so we always do their parties as 1 big one. So far they don't seem to mind:) Yay for me! Once again we had a backyard pool party- for party favors I had each kid "tie-dye" their own T-shirt, I had 2 big chalkboards set up with buckets of sidewalk chalk, water balloons and of course bunches of pool toys! It was a ton of fun and a uh err i mean a little stress!! lol The kids loved it and thats all that matters! Somebody over the course of the last few days (can't remember who) asked me why I go to all the trouble...and I said its too see those faces!! Not just those of my own kids (soo cute) but all the other s that make the effort of coming. i love seeing their smiles it just makes it all worth it! Plus my Grandma ALWAYS made a big deal out our birthdays when we were kids! So I want to pass that joy and love onto my kids:) Ill have pictures for ya'll soon I'll also link the how to on the tie dye(sooo easy and lots of fun) i'm having issues with my camera again! This time it fell out of the van onto the driveway:( Hopefully i can figure out another way to upload them! Catch ya later!;)