Showing posts with label Camping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Camping. Show all posts
09 September 2009
24 October 2008
Photos from our San Diego Trip
I’m going to try to catch up on posting the photos from our trip to San Diego.
So, when we got there my dad and my little brother, Aaron, were going on a scout campout, and they took Kolby and Eli with them. They ended up going to Palomar Mountain, and the boys had lots of fun. (They were talking about pancakes and syrup for days afterwards).
After the scout campout we needed to wash that smoky campfire smell off of the boys, so we decided they could just all go for a swim. They enjoyed swimming with Papa and Uncle Matthew and Uncle Aaron. Kolby liked floating around in the little raft, Eli swam back and forth across the jacuzzi the whole time we were out there, and Camden liked jumping across the jacuzzi to Papa.
So, when we got there my dad and my little brother, Aaron, were going on a scout campout, and they took Kolby and Eli with them. They ended up going to Palomar Mountain, and the boys had lots of fun. (They were talking about pancakes and syrup for days afterwards).
After the scout campout we needed to wash that smoky campfire smell off of the boys, so we decided they could just all go for a swim. They enjoyed swimming with Papa and Uncle Matthew and Uncle Aaron. Kolby liked floating around in the little raft, Eli swam back and forth across the jacuzzi the whole time we were out there, and Camden liked jumping across the jacuzzi to Papa.
26 June 2008
Fathers and Sons Campout
Michael took all four boys to the annual church Fathers and Sons Campout, and they came home tired and happy after a great trip. Among other things, the boys enjoyed playing with dogs that some people brought, making a “weather rock,” shooting guns, and using marshmallow launchers. (Although Michael was pretty worn out when he got home, I was proud of him because none of the boys even fell into the fire pit, got lost, or got eaten by a bear!) And now he is a sort of hero – I keep having men of all ages coming up to me at church and commenting on how amazing Michael was to take all the boys and how they could never do anything like that themselves. Pretty fun memories! Here are some photos Michael took while they were at the campout.
03 June 2007
June Already
This week Michael started his trauma surgery rotation, and it has been kind of a long week for us with his call schedule. With this rotation, they have 30-hour shifts at the hospital when they are on call, and little or no sleep for that entire time. Michael was on call Wednesday through Thursday morning, and then again Saturday until around noon today. So it has been a little tiring, but luckily it seems like we can get through any rough schedule for a month, and then we get to try out something new the next month.
We had a playgroup planning session at Brittney Winkler’s house where the kids got to play with a baby pool in the back yard while we made a schedule of weekly visits to playgrounds and splash pools throughout the summer. We had the boys’ toddler art class on Thursday, which they both enjoy. This week the theme was fish, and they made a fun picture that they got to glue sand and fishes cut out of different colored and textured papers. And that afternoon I went and helped my friend Sandra cut her son, Simon’s, hair. Simon is extremely afraid of having his hair cut, and it is somewhat of a battle to get it done, but it looks nice after we get it all cut.
Kolby and Eli each had their swim lessons this week too. Kolby is looking forward to two weeks from now when he will be starting a new swim class where he will be in the water with his class and we will watch him from the side. And I am looking forward to Eli’s new swim class in a couple of weeks that will be in the evening, as opposed to his Friday morning class we have been attending, so that Michael and I can switch off swimming with him sometimes.
And on Friday evening Michael took the boys for a few hours to the Fathers and Sons Campout, which I posted photos for in a post below. They enjoyed that, and then Michael was on call the next morning and he got home just before we got home from church. He tells me about the trauma surgeries – lots of motorcycle accidents, some car accidents, some gun-shot wounds, some drunken fights, and a few other things – and it sounds a lot like the tv show, ER.
So, my friends and I were going to have a garage sale this summer, but it never happened, so I’ve started trying to sell my garage sale items on craigslist. So, I had a toy kitchen that I bought at a garage sale a year ago for $1 – and the boys have really enjoyed playing with it, but lately they continually tip it over or use it to climb up onto the top bunk or to reach the lock on their closet door – so I sold it yesterday for $20. That’s a pretty good profit.
Well, after church today we went over to Tyce and Faith Kearl’s house to celebrate the blessing of their daughter, Katie, in church today. Michael was sad that he was on call today and couldn’t be part of the blessing, but it was nice to go over and visit with them afterwards, even though Michael was exhausted from getting 0 hours of sleep on his shift, and eventually fell asleep on their couch. Now we are home and Michael is trying to recuperate and rest while the boys are all napping. And this upcoming week we have several things to look forward to: our ultrasound will be on Tuesday, this will be Kolby’s last week of preschool until next Fall, and on Wednesday I will officially be 19 weeks along with this pregnancy.
We learned several interesting things this week: 1. Sidewalk chalk makes a loud fizzing noise if you dump it into a baby pool, 2. Michael has confirmed the fact that he is not interested in a career as a surgeon, 3. Kolby decided that he doesn’t like the taste of coffee (he took a sip of someone else’s drink when we were in the McDonald’s play area), 4. Michael has seen enough bad trauma surgeries lately to make him commit to never riding a motorcycle, and 5. When you live somewhere that the winter lasts at least seven months long, the summer sure does go by quickly – I can’t believe June is already here!
We had a playgroup planning session at Brittney Winkler’s house where the kids got to play with a baby pool in the back yard while we made a schedule of weekly visits to playgrounds and splash pools throughout the summer. We had the boys’ toddler art class on Thursday, which they both enjoy. This week the theme was fish, and they made a fun picture that they got to glue sand and fishes cut out of different colored and textured papers. And that afternoon I went and helped my friend Sandra cut her son, Simon’s, hair. Simon is extremely afraid of having his hair cut, and it is somewhat of a battle to get it done, but it looks nice after we get it all cut.
Kolby and Eli each had their swim lessons this week too. Kolby is looking forward to two weeks from now when he will be starting a new swim class where he will be in the water with his class and we will watch him from the side. And I am looking forward to Eli’s new swim class in a couple of weeks that will be in the evening, as opposed to his Friday morning class we have been attending, so that Michael and I can switch off swimming with him sometimes.
And on Friday evening Michael took the boys for a few hours to the Fathers and Sons Campout, which I posted photos for in a post below. They enjoyed that, and then Michael was on call the next morning and he got home just before we got home from church. He tells me about the trauma surgeries – lots of motorcycle accidents, some car accidents, some gun-shot wounds, some drunken fights, and a few other things – and it sounds a lot like the tv show, ER.
So, my friends and I were going to have a garage sale this summer, but it never happened, so I’ve started trying to sell my garage sale items on craigslist. So, I had a toy kitchen that I bought at a garage sale a year ago for $1 – and the boys have really enjoyed playing with it, but lately they continually tip it over or use it to climb up onto the top bunk or to reach the lock on their closet door – so I sold it yesterday for $20. That’s a pretty good profit.
Well, after church today we went over to Tyce and Faith Kearl’s house to celebrate the blessing of their daughter, Katie, in church today. Michael was sad that he was on call today and couldn’t be part of the blessing, but it was nice to go over and visit with them afterwards, even though Michael was exhausted from getting 0 hours of sleep on his shift, and eventually fell asleep on their couch. Now we are home and Michael is trying to recuperate and rest while the boys are all napping. And this upcoming week we have several things to look forward to: our ultrasound will be on Tuesday, this will be Kolby’s last week of preschool until next Fall, and on Wednesday I will officially be 19 weeks along with this pregnancy.
We learned several interesting things this week: 1. Sidewalk chalk makes a loud fizzing noise if you dump it into a baby pool, 2. Michael has confirmed the fact that he is not interested in a career as a surgeon, 3. Kolby decided that he doesn’t like the taste of coffee (he took a sip of someone else’s drink when we were in the McDonald’s play area), 4. Michael has seen enough bad trauma surgeries lately to make him commit to never riding a motorcycle, and 5. When you live somewhere that the winter lasts at least seven months long, the summer sure does go by quickly – I can’t believe June is already here!
02 June 2007
Fathers and Sons Camping Trip
Michael was very disappointed a couple of weeks ago when he found out that his trauma surgery rotation had him scheduled for a 30-hour shift on Saturday, because he had been looking forward to taking the boys to the annual church Fathers and Sons Camping Trip that went from Friday evening through Saturday. But on Friday afternoon he came up with the idea of taking the boys up to the campground just for the evening, and then returning home that night. I thought that was pretty admirable of him, since that would mean that he wouldn’t be able to get to bed early and get a good rest before he had to be at the hospital the next morning for his long call day.
So, after dinner they drove up to the campground in Menomonee Falls and Michael said that they had lots of fun. When they got there, they walked down to the lake and took some pictures and then it started to rain. They all went into Tyce's tent with Tyce and Nathan, along with Matt Vernon and his son Isaac, to wait and see if the rain would let up, but it poured for a long time. Michael said that there were still others outside around a big bonfire, but they spent the rest of the time playing in the tent, because it was too wet outside for the little boys. They came home late, and Michael carried each of the sleeping boys in from the car and put them in their beds. It was nice that he was able to take them and that they had fun. What a great dad!
So, after dinner they drove up to the campground in Menomonee Falls and Michael said that they had lots of fun. When they got there, they walked down to the lake and took some pictures and then it started to rain. They all went into Tyce's tent with Tyce and Nathan, along with Matt Vernon and his son Isaac, to wait and see if the rain would let up, but it poured for a long time. Michael said that there were still others outside around a big bonfire, but they spent the rest of the time playing in the tent, because it was too wet outside for the little boys. They came home late, and Michael carried each of the sleeping boys in from the car and put them in their beds. It was nice that he was able to take them and that they had fun. What a great dad!
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