Reunion

The boys and I went to my mom's family reunion this weekend. We camped at Palisades. I haven't gone camping since before I was pregnant with Tripp. And I forgot how disgustingly dirty you get while out there. Combine the dirt with the 50 layers of bug spray we had on our bodies and we were all pretty nasty and smelly. Good thing we were only out there for 2 nights! Tripp and Deklan enjoyed playing with their cousins and getting down and dirty. I gave Deklan several "wipe baths" and he was still filthy. We had fun playing games, singing karaoke, eating lots of good dutch oven food, having water fight wars, and telling embarassing stories around the campfire.

Tripp and Asher in their cute camp chairs

See the filthiness!

Kristi and Deko

Part of the gang. Now that I think about it, we should have taken a big group photo, oh well.

Mom and Mike

Darcy and Deko (everyone wanted to hold this dirty little guy)

Grandma, Grandpa, Scott, and Nikki

Linnea yelling at all of us to start the games
My team won the scavenger hunt. Here is a pic of our haul:
Dirty Deko picsZeldaBill and Logan playing ladder golf
Check out this poser! This is my cousin Logan
Trippy and Deko wrestling in the tent
We also saw a Sasquatch (and no, it wasn't Sarah)! We woke up one morning to find a warning posted on a candle in our camp. On one side there was handwriting saying that sasquatch had mind control powers and said they had to leave several of these warnings to campers. On the other side of the paper was a long excerpt from a book Theodore Roosevelt wrote about a story a man told him about a scary encounter with a Sasquatch! My uncle Scott read it to us and it was super spooky. Then that night as we were telling stories around the campfire we heard an ear-piercing howl. I put my flashlight beam where we heard the noise and all we saw was a tall, hairy figure running away from our camp! Totally spooky! Sasquatch came by the next day and was pretty friendly. He even let us take some pics of him.

Scott reading to us on the karaoke machine. Zelda and Brielle decided to gather close to him for storytime.

Some of the boys did some skeet shooting before we left. My mom thought Tera and her pregger belly looked funny holding a rifle.

Camdon holding Brielle and Tripp

We had a lot of fun and can't wait till the next reunion!

That was totally wicked!!

I told Randy, for his birthday, I was going to buy him tickets to a Backstreet Boys concert. He looked at me and said, "I'd rather go bungee jumping." So we went! On Saturday, we drove to Amboy and jumped off a bridge. It was a gorgeous day! A guy proposed to his girlfriend right before Randy jumped. He got down on his knee and said, "I'd jump off a bridge for you...." Good thing she said yes. He must have been super nervous after the proposal cuz he did not jump the correct way! We had to go through a 10 minute "jump school" before we jumped. And they told us to jump out and dive. This guy jumped feet first and the cord whipped him in the face and cut his eyelid. Poor guy. I messed up in filming Randy's first jump cuz I was taking a picture of him and didn't realize how fast the countdown was going to be. But I got the second jump where they had us jump backwards. And Randy filmed my first jump but messed up on filming my second jump. Aren't we the perfect match? This is Randy before the jump.

I was glad the countdown was so fast once I got onto the tiny platform. If I had to wait one more second, I probably wouldn't have jumped. Mid jump -I started wondering what I was doing, but it was too late at that point. What a rush! I'm pretty sure my eyes were closed 90% of the time, but it was awesome. I think it was easier to jump off the ledge backwards, since I couldn't see what I was doing, but scarier cuz I couldn't see where I was going.

We Survived! Did I mention this is the highest bungee jumping spot in the USA? 200 feet off the ground. They told us we would go about 68 mph downward and about 70 mph up, pretty crazy, eh?

Somewhere in my jumps, I got a rope burn on my forearm. I didn't notice it until we left the bridge. And then it started stinging like crazy. My jaw also felt really sore -most likely from me clenching it the entire time.

Because Randy and I jumped twice, we are now members of the Dangerous Sports club and received a T-shirt and we get discounts on all of our future jumps. Next year, skydiving....

Look out, Lyssa!

Have you heard of this?

This is the S2h replay watch. For every 60 minutes of activity, you earn a rewards code. Then you go to there website and redeem prizes. It's only $20, and I think it's excellent motivation to get moving more. Now I just have to get Randy to buy one for me.....

Looks like chocolate, but it's actually.....

...brown marker! Not sure how he opened it, but he definitely had fun. Tripp asks me every day when we are going to go to a baseball game. I was sick of the question, so we made this counting chain. Now he can count down the days to the game and the train ride. Can you tell he's excited? He's even wearing his Mariners shirt.
And for some reason he wanted me to take a picture of his hand. That's why he's holding it up.

Life these days

Tripp, Deko, and I were eating waffles for breakfast. I reached over and took a bite of Tripp's waffle and he said, "You eat my waffle, punk!" I laughed, but I'm not sure what to think about that comment. I guess I need to watch what I say.

Tripp had a dentist appointment today. I had him practice opening his mouth for the dentist. The last couple of times we were at the dentist, Tripp cried and had to sit in my lap. So I was trying to get him more prepared this time. They put Tripp in a chair to take x-rays of his teeth and he had his mouth wide open the whole time. It was pretty cute. He didn't cry at all and his teeth are awesome. The dentist who saw him was really nice. She even looked at Deklan's 6 little teeth. Tripp got a token when he was done to get a prize. He picked the baby dinosaur that he is holding up.
We had a gorgeous sunny day this week, so we went out and laid in the grass. Deklan loves picking the grass and dandelions. It's tough trying to keep it out of his mouth.
I love this happy man!

That's what's new with us. Taking life one day at a time and hoping for more warm sunny days.How can you not love these guys to pieces?

Success!

We participated in the 3rd annual Adult flashlight egg hunt this year. It was wicked awesome! They made us run a bit before we got to the eggs and 2,000+ eggs were gone in about 30 seconds. I collected 30 eggs, Tina got 20-30 (so she says;), Jordan got 18 eggs and several bags of chips and cans of pop, and Randy got 63 eggs! I had 2 numbers in my eggs and won Milk Duds and Kit Kats, Jordan won playing cards, and Randy won the grand prize! He won this heavy barbeque gift basket............now if we had a grill, we'd be in business! Randy got his picture taken and it should be posted here when they write about it.

Willy was watching Tripp, Deklan, and Alyssa in the car. They watched all of us take off and a few seconds later they saw several flashlight beams coming toward them. He said it looked like "aliens!" We played putt-putt glow golf before the hunt and Randy and I won a free game of golf and I won my church basketball game this morning. So we have had one lucky day full of winning and prizes. Let's see how long this lucky streak lasts.....