More Tahoe Blue

Here's a few more Tahoe pics. Kate, the slideshow is great, thanks for doing that! I especially love the Pirates music with you guys in the canoe. On land. Here's Cam's baby crawdad (just spelling it how it sounds). I'm glad we were able to talk him into bringing it back to the beach.

Troy and I about to go to dinner for our anniversary. Thanks again everyone for watching the kids. That's the greatest gift of all! We enjoyed a nice dinner, walked around the lake and then to some shops and saw a movie. It was great!~
Dessert.

tahoe slideshow

so i made a quick slide show of the tahoe pictures,
rather than posting them all...so if you want me
to email you any of these pics, let me know.

LAKE TAHOE...#1

well i took lots of pictures, so i'll have to do a
couple of posts. carrie we all missed you!


travis loved this stuffed bear that was on display
at the erhman mansion. i'm not sure the ranger
understood the concept of 'exchanging brains.'


dinner time with alex


trav is too cool for us


practicing


so pretty

Flight of the Conchords

So, you've probably heard of these guys. Some of their songs are hilarious. Go to http://www.youtube.com/ and look up our favorites: Business time, Think about it, Tape of Love, and Brett You've Got It Going On. They're hilarious!


Also- CONGRATS U.S. Men's Volleyball!!! Maybe it's because there's 2 BYU grads on the team. Maybe it's because one was still playing at BYU when we were there. Maybe it's because one of their names is Lambourne (very cool to see your last name on an Olympic jersey!). Maybe it's because we love to watch it. Either way, we've been following the volleyball this Olympics and are STOKED that U.S. Men's Volleyball won GOLD!!!! I confess, they were in my prayers. (side note- U.S. rocked volleyball this Olympics- no small feat considering Brazil, the #1 ranked teams in the world, was also in 3 of the 4 final matches. U.S. Women's won silver, and both U.S. men's beach volleyball and U.S. women's beach volleyball won gold!!!)

Tahoe Fun!!

Kate & Audrey at the pizza place
BLISS!!
mom showing audrey how cool wearing her sweater is...im not sure it had affect....

I think this is the most expression dads ever shown on camera!
Brett & A-bomb

Tahoe was a lot of fun this year, we missed out on a couple things since we weren't there as long. But it was still a lot of fun. We missed you Carrie and Rod! i dont' have any cool pictures of the dock, or trav jumpin off, kate does though, so kate-post them!

Fame & Fortune

So- we're pretty much famous now. Rod's hospital pic got published in Mountain Bike Action! And my little blurb I wrote with it, too. So Rod can say his picture's been in MBA and I'm a published writer!!!

Rod hasn't even gotten his copy in the mail yet; his brother-in-law in Virginia just happened to buy this issue and see Rod in it! So of course, we just had to go buy it....

If you blink, you'll miss it.....

Every time I drive by this sign, I think to myself, "You've got to be kidding me." So this is where we live. Bieber is 2 miles up the road and that's TWICE the size, at a population of 500. The high school and middle schools are in Bieber, and the elemantary is about 10 miles away. There's a family in our ward about Troy and I's age with their fourth on the way. They have a boy Cameron's age and a girl Audrey's age and a 2yr old boy. We were so excited to meet them, they are very nice and we all get along great. So we all have one friend! That's what I figured I'd need to survive here. It has been an adjustment, especially shopping. I actually miss Walmart. There are nights I'd give away a child (or 4) for a Papa Murphy's pizza place. There is McDonalds 40 minutes away....
One of the cats had this special treat for us on our doorstep. Troy hates bats. Screams like a little girl. Seriously. :)

Our latest loyal steed, Neb. Thanks grandpa! He loves the kids and has been great with our other furry beast, Sasquach.

And Cameron is still in love with mud. He asked if Ethan could come over and play with him. He was really upset with me when I told him probably not. He wanted me to call Natalie and give her directions so she could just 'drop him off'. We'll have to work out a visit soon!

This is at Burney Falls, a beautiful camping area with some really neat waterfalls and trails. We've had fun exploring our new area and seeing so many beautiful sights! I think we'll survive here, once school starts I might be a little more sure. It's hard having them all home with NOWHERE to go!!! I thought I'd do a little experiment today, I wanted to see how many times my kids said "mom" throughout the day. It's been driving me crazy. Why does it take 10 'moms' for each child to say one thing? Anyway, by lunchtime I was at 87, give or take a few, and it took too much brainpower to keep counting. I think my brain is running on fumes anyways. So that's how far I got, and then I realized that Alex isn't even saying 'Mom' yet! What's one more...