Summer in review Continued-California

                                                  Downtown Sacramento

                                                    Train Museum in Sacramento

                             Diners Drive ins and Dives; The Squeeze Inn .This Restaurant was featured on the show it happens to be just a few miles from my sister's house in Galt, Ca. Yummy! Thanks Cass for taking us there.

              Some serious cheese on this cheeseburger!!

Attractive I know!!!

Summer Road trip pit stop

Tulare, California Ag Museum. We drove to California to see my sister this summer and we needed a bathroom break and somewhere for the kids to stretch out for a bit. We pulled off the freeway and found this place, it was perfect. Jared had met some farmers from this area this year and thought it would be neat to see where they were from. The boys had fun watching this movie on tractors. Alan turned on these sprinklers a bunch of times. Grant and David practiced milking a cow, and we had fun looking at all the old tractors. Fun stop, it was free cool and had very clean bathrooms!! We lucked out.

Summer in Review- Grand Canyon

Okay so this is a terrible picture of us but you can just enjoy the scenery. It was breathtaking and mind-blowing to look out into this Canyon.

We are never smart enough to get someone to take a picture of all of us so here is Jared and the boys. Alan, David and Grant.

David wanted to climb under these bars and start climbing and hiking!! My heart was racing watching him try a couple of times! We will have to take him back when he is older to hike the Grand Canyon. I know he will love that sort of thing.

We rented bikes and had a fun time riding downhill the whole way to the look out. Then we had to have the bikes back by 1:30 so we were booking it the whole way back, all up hill!! We made it,  I was a little light headed when we got back. Maybe next time we will bring more water and think about lunch before hand. 

Summer in review continued - Birthdays!

So everyone in our family has a summer birthday. It's one big party after another around our house in the summer. My birthday is first followed by Alan's and then Jared's, all in June. Then July is Grant and August is David and Benjamin. I won't even start with extended family. I had yummy chocolate cupcakes that Grant and David made together. I made some heavenly frosting to go on top. Jared had cheesecake. Grant chocolate with white frosting and David funfetti. Grant's birthday was a mission impossible theme. His friends had water bombs and super soakers they split into teams and battled it out, all to the Mission impossible theme song. It was fun and I am mad that I didn't get pictures of it. What kind of mom am I??? So that's that we are all a year older and wiser too. Maybe?