A Fun Weekend!

We had a great weekend with our friends Christie and Scottie and there adorable little girl Gabby! I've been wanting to go to the zoo for forever now, and so that is just what we did. It was a blast and the kids loved it! We were all pooped by the end.

Spider monkeys, hard to see, but they were there.

Checkin out the elephants.

Jace is really liking monkeys right now, so I knew he would love them, and he did. Every time we saw one he shouted monkey and was so excited! There are a lot of monkeys at the Zoo.

How does he measure up?

I think gorillas are such cool animals, so much like humans!

I love girrafes, they are so pretty!

They were so close that we could have touched them, but we didn't.

The animals were pretty active, which was fun!

Chrisite getting eaten by the lion:)

Riding the trolly train.

We were a little dissapointed because they don't have as many cool animals as they use to at the Zoo, but it was still fun, and definately well worth the trip!

After we had our Zoo adventure, we went to Zupas and had a delicious dinner, I love that place! Then, we headed to Chrisite and Scotties house to do our annual pumpkin carving! This is something we do with them every year, and we always have so much fun! I think our pumpkins turned out pretty awesome too!

Busy carving away!

All our pumpkins carved.

Creepy spider, mine!

Headless hourseman, Gabes.

J for Jacers.

Four finger hand:), Christies.

The midnight bat, Scotts.

                                     
Happy Halloween!! Thanks Lambs, we had a blast!!

Campin!

Over Labor day weekend we went camping with my family up to my parents property. We always have a blast when we go up there and enjoy getting away for a bit. Before we started the camping trip, we made a stop at Swiss Days friday night just the girls(and Jace):). We all got some fun stuff and enjoyed eating the yummy scones and shopped till we dropped.

Then we headed to the property and met up with the rest of the crew.

Takin the kids around the track on the go cart

Gettin away from the sun for a bit.

Eatin our yummy tin-foil dinners

Cute Bentley hangin out in her chair

Jace and Bentley relaxin

Jace was wearing my sunglasses and taking a ride on the swing.

Bryce pretending he's a baby and swinging

Playing hourse shoes

My parents bought a trapoline for there property. We had a blast on it. We had a tramp growing up, so it brought back a lot of memories. I'm definately not able to do all the tricks I use to, but it was still way fun!

Jace loved it!

Hangin out around the camp fire.

Swingin on the hammock.

Playing in the tent. It gets so bright in the mornings in a tent, so Jace was up at 6 a.m. every morning, so we had to chill in there till everyone else woke up.

Nicole became a pro on Joshs new motor cycle.

We went to the lake one day and played in the water, and let the dogs get some of there energy out.

Gettin some rays lake side:)

Out on the Lake

As you may know, my husband is obsessed with fishing, and I don't mind it much either. Gabe came up with the idea of renting a pontoon boat and heading out to the lake for the day. So that's what we did. We convinced every one(gabes fam) to head out at 5:30 a.m. to get to Strawberry by 6:30. It was early, but worth it, we think:) We were minus a few members of the family, and they were missed, but It was a great day out on the lake, and we caught a tun of fish. We had to throw most of them back, because they were cut throats, but still had a great day! Lots of pics from our fun day:)

Headin out to our sweet spot!

I only made Jace wear this life jacket when we were moving, which he probably should have worn it the hole time, but as you can see it's not the most comfortable thing.

Kass and Gauge. He looked miserable in his jacket, but was such a good sport about it and didn't even make a peep.

Don is terrified of water, but he did really good. He didn't take his life jacket off the whole time:)

Jacers thinking he was driving the boat:)

Just chillin

First catch of the day. He's giving me a sarcastic smile cause I wanted a picture of him and his fish, but he was more worried about getting the hook off and the fish back in the water before it died cause it was one we couldn't keep.

Jerome and his first catch of many.

Our nephew caught this off his little transformers $10 pole. He was just playing around casting and reeling over and over when all the sudden he couldn't reel in any more, we heard him yell and came over to find this nice rainbow trout on his pole. He was so proud of it and was bragging all day about his awesome catch:)

Jerome and Kass

Kris and Gabe with Kris's nice Rainbow.

We caught all cut throats, so we had nothing to take home, but still a blast!

Kass fishin!

Grandma kristi and Story.





Grandma Kristi and Jacers

Hangin out eatin some grapes:)

Headin back to the Marina

Jace was pretty much exhausted and didn't wake up till we got home:)
We will definitely be doing this again it was a great day!