Palisades 2013

This year we went back to Palisades for a weekend camping trip with our friends the Nelsons.  The Pelaez's came along which made the trip even more fun.  That, and the fact that as opposed to last year, nobody had the coxsacki virus!  Thank goodness!

Ella kept walking over to this rock and sitting on it and saying "cheese".  I took the hint and got the camera out.  She was waiting for her dad to get back from fishing.  You can see them out on the raft in the background.

Steve and Jack out fishing with John and Spencer and Jack P.

Jack telling me that he caught 3 fish.  Steve promised he would buy Jack his own fishing pole if he caught 3 fish.  I wonder if he's going to pay up?

Jack and Kyann having a lazy morning in the hammock.

It was father's day weekend so we made crafts for our dad's Saturday morning while they were out golfing.

Ella making her "da deee" a fathers day poster :)

Charlie is Jack's first best friend!  They have been in preschool together all year and see each other at plenty of primary presidency meetings :)  They were inseparable all weekend and played so great together!

You can kind of see the floating dock behind Jack in the lake.  We swam out to the dock (Joe brought the kids out in the raft) and Jack jumped off of it to Steve in the lake.  He's such a brave little guy!  The water was freezing!

Ella is SUCH a daddy's girl right now!!  It's understandable, I like him quite a bit too!  You can kind of see the trailer we rented over Steve's left shoulder.  We weren't roughing it too much .

There's no better place for boys to be boys then when they're out camping!  I don't think Jack said a word to me all day Saturday other than when he was hungry.  Between the swimming, fishing, playing in the sand, playing at the park, riding bikes, and having a campfire, he was pretty busy!

Brody's pool party

Our cousin Brody turned 3 last week, and since we were going to be gone camping and miss his birthday party, we decided to have a little cousin pool party instead.  The kids had a great time swimming, eating snacks and cupcakes, and opening presents.

Here's the birthday boy opening his presents.

Cupcakes and cheetos at the pool make for a messy but delicious combination!

Ella is getting quite the suntan.  She gets lots of compliments on her tan skin and blonde hair :)

The cute boys in their matching swim vests. 

Selfie

Jack may be to young to go take a "selfie" in the bathroom mirror with his iphone to upload as his new profile pic, but he is not too young to take my camera and retreat to the crawl space to take a shot or two of himself.  I found these on my phone and they were too funny to not post :)