What to do with school out of session... We thought of a couple of things. After Kaylee bridged from Daisies to Brownies, the family took a road trip up to Bass Lake to meet up with more family. We stopped at a hotel in Bakersfield on the way to make a more laid back trip. After a BJ's dinner, Kaylee loosing a tooth at the hotel (which the girls were prepared for and brought the tooth fairy pillow), and a laid back awesome continental Father's Day buffet breakfast we only had a couple more hours before our big camping adventure at Bass Lake with Poppa, Marty's, and Kyle's. We were the first to arrive and scoped out the best spot for all of us!
A great place to camp, and it wasn't long before the rest of the family arrived! We spent the day setting up and scoping out the place and celebrating the amazing dad's that were there with us, along with a couple extra gifts for Kaylee's birthday.
After a small incident involving a brush and Mommy's head in the morning (not self inflicted), we planned a day on the lake with a magnificent rental boat that could accommodate all of us, a BBQ for dinner burgers and dogs as well as being able to pull a tube at a decent speed behind! So much fun, and great weather for hanging out in the lake. We headed back to camp and played a little LRC with the whole clan before a good night sleep anticipating our trip to Yosemite the next day.
After a little bit of a road trip, we saw so many beautiful sites, and such amazing water displays in between some great hiking trails! Of course along the way enjoying each others company! We had a bit more of a relax day at the campsite the following day with some bike riding and a lot of pool time as well as teaching many of the fellow campers how to play Kan Jam and glow in the dark Bocce Ball! A very memorable trip indeed.
We then headed home to not really unpack, but re-pack to head right back to camping after one night in our own beds to Doheny with many great friends. We even convinced the Marshalls to come join our crazy group! While in Doheny for that short weekend we got to celebrate Rylee's Birthday which sparked and impromptu soccer game in the street, a surf competition and festival a short walk away, many of corn hole games, and ending with another birthday celebration for Michele before we left.
Finally getting home, it was back to work and the girls first week at YMCA camp. They enjoyed camp from the first day. Still during the week they already missed friends from school, so we had some play-dates. It was quiet at gymnastics since most girls were in Georgia for competition. We had fun on bike and scooter rides to the school playground and around the neighborhood.
Then the weekend began the 4th of July celebrations. Cara/Keira/Misha's block had a wonderful party with water slides and super band. Then we had extra days off work and spent time on the 4th at the Ferrario's enjoying pool time, always great friends, and games. We ended the 4th at the neighbors with more pool time, great food, and views of the nearby fireworks.
Mommy spoiled the girls the next day since she had it off with a breakfast followed by... yes a shopping spree at Toys R Us. They had so many gift cards building up that hadn't been used since Mommy is not a fan of shopping. They pretty much got to pick out anything they wanted in the store. It was actually amazing how responsible they were with checking prices and being conscious about the cost.
Porter got his best buddy, Lula, to come stay for a week starting that Saturday. Mommy finally got to build a bench out of her very first snow board. The girls got another play-date with London before we helped celebrate Uncle Keith's 60th birthday next door with a fun and delicious party.
The Natal's came on Monday as a stop on there way to a family vacation in San Diego. They had a fun idea to leave their pups and take our girls for the day to spend some quality time on Tuesday. Then Mommy brought the pups to pick up the girls and spend a couple more hours of quality time (Mommy even went almost all the way into that freezing cold ocean : )) the next morning before bringing the girls back home on Wednesday.
We then had a very rare weekend of not doing much accept the necessary up keep and just spending time together. The girls brought out the entire broken up all combined Lego Friends pieces and we proceed to put each together booklet by booklet. It was great family time. The girls also each learned to roll and count all there piggy bank money that they have been collecting since birth. They sorted, counted, and hand rolled all coins to be put in their bank accounts! We of course had to get stuff done, so we washed cars etc. and went to breakfast once again before the girls enjoyed their next week of camp!
We managed to order a few chapter books that Cienna has been looking for and they came in, so she has done quite a bit of reading. She just doesn't stop until they are done. She was proud of herself making new friends at camp by asking.... What's your name?. She says her favorite part of the month was tubing on Bass Lake!
We are happy that at least one of Kaylee's front teeth is making a strong appearance since it has been gone over 6 months and she has lost 4 since that one. There is still one more about to come out. She misses school friends but is easily made many more at camp. More time in the water has made her a pretty good swimmer, and even went way into the ocean with Uncle RJ to boogie board in SD. She loves building things, wouldn't stop till all Lego Friends pieces were built and accounted for : )
Can't even believe that we are this far into the summer and we will have started fall soccer by the next time!
This is all till next time.
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