Cali

On July 29, the kiddos and I headed to Cali for a little vacation time with the Crane family. Tyson flew in the next night and the kids, and myself, were so happy to see him, since we spent almost 3 weeks in WA.

We started the trip off with a tour of Tehema and Los Melinos, which is where Tyson's grandparents grew up. It was so fun to see these tiny little towns...I'm talkin' half the size of Ephrata here...tiny! This picture was taken outside of Germp's school house...just this one building, and 3 rooms for grades k-8.

This was outside of the ranch house where Germ spent a lot of her growing up days. It was beautiful! Not a house in sight and rolling hills all over the place.

The next day we headed to Shasta lake for some good ol' fashion camping. I just had to put this picture in of my cute little Lexter

One day we found this sweet waterfall.

Lexi, and Jace, were tube masters. This tube ride with aunt Merce lasted a good 20 min.

Unfortunately, we had to cut the trip a day early. As you can see by Burn's face, he had a slight problem. The first day we got there, he'd been out cutting away at some brush to make some tent spots. First off, he got stung by wasps in about 8 places, which started swelling up pretty fast and lasted a few days. When the swelling went down from that, he had gotten poison oak all over himself...if you can't tell, he had quite the allergic reaction and we in need of some medical attention. Don't be alarmed, he is back to normal and yes, still available!

And here are just some cute videos. I had to bribe Lexi with a new barbie to get her to wakeboard with daddy, but hey, she did it!