Future Ammunition

I'm not sure what I'll use this for, but a little boy sleeping in his car seat in a pink shirt with flowers and his underwear has to be good for some kind of embarrassment or bribery... right?

Did you hear about the kid who climbed Mt. Everest?

We did. Once. On the news radio. And then there we were in Big Bear, which happens to be this kid's hometown and he happened to be doing a book signing that night at the local book shop. We had to go. His name is Jordan and he's climbed seven (I believe) major peaks with Mt. Everest capping it off in May of this year. Pretty impressive!


There he is, signing their book.

What are they looking at?

We went on a hike that had markers to stop at and a brochure to read from at the markers to tell you a little bit more about what you were looking at. The last stop on our morning hike that day was this tree but I forget what was interesting about the tree because we got distracted by the wildlife. See that, there by the bottom of the tree? No? Look closer...

Yup, that's a rattler eating his breakfast. In half gulp. He rattled at us once or twice, but I felt pretty safe since his mouth looked pretty full. And for those of you more interested, there's a slightly closer shot next...

Down the hatch. Yum Yum.

Camping #2

This time we headed up to Big Bear and even got a chance to go canoeing for a little while.

Camping Trip #1 and Mosquitos

I managed very few pictures of this trip, but we had a lot of fun. Everyone was a good sport with my campfire cooking attempts. One thing we found out about the beautiful Palomar Mtn campground... they have mosquitos! We had spray, but Anna and Jake ended up with a considerable number of bites on their foreheads. It looked like Anna had chicken pox!

Yes, there are 5 kids here. Jake joined us for the trip!

Little League Closing Ceremony

Jack really enjoyed baseball again this year. Here he is receiving his trophy for the year at closing ceremonies.

More Buzz

Luke loves his Buzz costume. I know I put one of these up before, but I think he is so adorable!