Sketty's 2nd birthday

For Sketty's birthday we were actually up in Tahoe for Labor Day weekend staying at a friend's cabin so we didn't do much celebrating. I had a wicked head pain that weekend so we played it cool, relaxing on the beach. He was perfectly happy with that. We did go to Grandma's house to celebrate for her birthday the next weekend. He is really into super heroes and loves Batman, Superman, Ironman, and all the other Avengers. Fortunately I had picked up a cake mold at a garage sale earlier this summer :-)

 I love this picture. He's still the happiest kid ever and smiles so brightly about everything. Love him to death!

 He made quite a mess and all that black frosting was super awesome to clean up...

 Fortunately my kids are all pretty good about letting their siblings help unwrap their birthday presents and we don't usually have too many harsh words.

I don't even know if we got Sketty much for his birthday. I mean, what do you get the 3rd boy when you already have everything. He wouldn't have known the difference anyway. Poor Jameson probably won't get much of anything until he's old enough to know:-)

Camping

WRIGHT'S LAKE

We finally made it camping ONE time last summer and we were only gone overnight. We fully intend to take better advantage of all the wonderful places around us this summer. No being pregnant, no newborns....maybe a freshly walking toddler though.... My memory is so shot I don't even know when this was--maybe sometime in August or September, I have no idea. But it was fun and quick. We decided to go up that day around noon and by the time we packed and drove up there it was around 5 o'clock.  I love that we have mountains and lakes so close to do that.

 Love sitting around the campfire in the dark chatting with our kids and making memories.

 This knucklehead had the marshmallow skewers and was pretending they were anything from swords to shovels. He was in the dirt the whole time, as a little boy should.

 Baby JJ did great, only got up a little in the wee hours of morning when it was extra chilly.  Someone later told us they thought they were hearing a cat meowing. Nope, just our baby:)

 The kids loved jumping off this big rock

 One of us always seems to have a kid or two in our arms.  I'm afraid we'll turn into weaklings when we don't have a bunch of littles to hold all the time.

 We're not really sure how he got into this position but his shirt is all twisted around him and sort of half inside out. He's a goob.

 This is him saying "Heyyyyy! I stole your phone Dad!"

 We borrowed my brother-in-laws paddle board and the kids had a great time on it. Wrights Lake is shallow enough that you can almost walk all the way across it, so its great for kids who are kind of unstable on a board. My kids did great though.

There is definitely a weight limit on these boards though. I just had a baby so obviously wasn't at my ideal weight. Add one kid on front and another hanging off the back like a dead YAK and you get some serious drag! Pretty good workout, and fun too.