Too Much Fun!

The last fews weeks have been crazy! But, they sure have been fun! We ended June with my nephew's 3rd birthday. He had a blast. We moved here the day of his first birthday and I can't believe how much he's grown in these 2 years. I just adore him!

Then, good friends from Mesa, Az came to visit for 10 days. They have a little girl that is 3 months younger than Allie. She is just a doll baby! So unlike our Allie. Kallei is so danty and girly. Allie prefers playing with motorcycles and cars and runs around like a wild animal! But we adore her. We went to Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo and had a great time riding the rides and watching the dolphin and whale shows. We took Paul and Tricia waterskiing and tubing on the lake and the girls spent some time scrapbooking while my brother tried to kill Paul by taking him white water rafting. We had a great visit and it was so nice to catch up with friends we hadn't seen in a while.

Two of my cousins and their families came up for the 4th of July weekend and we took the boats and houseboat out to the lake. The 2 hour wait to launch our boat was actually worth it! The lake is so low right now that they were only launching one boat at a time where normally there are 12 launch lanes! Crazy!

My sister and her family came up the 4th and stayed until this morning. We did our annual family vacation. We usually spend all day at the lake tubing, playing games, riding the wave runner, skiing, and just relaxing. I look forward to it all year. But, this year was different. We went to the lake Monday and Tuesday but by Wednesday, the smoke in the air was so bad that we couldn't take the kids outside. 3 weeks ago we had a dry thunder storm and lighting started 800 fires in Northern CA. Most are out but there are still approx. 40 fires burning. The sky has been filled with smoke for most of those 3 weeks. We've had a couple fairly clear days but this past week a fire burning close to the lake made the smoke unbearable. On Thursday, the visibility was down to only a couple hundred yards. The air quality was classified as "Very Unhealthy" and "Hazardous" so we spent most of the week in air conditioning. It was also the hottest week all year. We hit around 110 degrees! Ack! So, instead of a beautiful week on the lake we hung out at my parent's and played games. It was still fun and the most important thing was that we enjoyed time with each other.





Allie sleeping on the houseboat

Allie eating watermelon at Jame's Birthday party