Home again, home again....

I'm working on getting pictures on here - it's taking me forever to finally catch up on things since we've been gone for almost a month, so here are a few to start you off. I'm totally one of those lame mom's that forgets to take the camera or had dead batteries in the camera, so I'm sure I'll post more after I've gathered some from family.


After girls camp my brother and his family finally made it "home" this summer and we were able to take family pictures. and have a little reunion. You can see that little isn't really the right word when it comes to our family and it just keeps growing. It's always a party.








We were able to spend most of the week at the family cabin first with some friends and then most of my family came up. It was so great to spend time with them even though it was short.

Officer took Miss Peanut went for her first ride on a 4-wheeler, she wasn't real sure what to think of that.



Miss Peanut had her first "pedicure" sort of, don't look too close - she doesn't like to have anyone play with her feet.

we took the kids to play in the river




of course we ate plenty of smores and sat around the campfire - or at least watched officer chop wood - fascinating really.

and Officer took our's friends little boys (one was the dad and the other was the son) to go shooting and teach the "Kermit" about gun safety. (I borrowed her pictures thanks for sharing:).

Once again - I'm lame and didn't pull out the camera while my family was at the cabin - so I'll have to gather some from everyone.

We were home long enough to unpack and repack and we then took off for California to spend time with Officer's family for almost 2 weeks. So nice to get a way that long.

We stayed at his parents newly remodeled beautiful home for a few days before we headed for the coast for the opening of Abalone season. When I say coast I don't mean sunny Southern California - I mean beautiful much cooler Northern California. It was such nice weather compared to the summer heat at home; I loved actually having to wear a coat cause I was colder in the evenings. Officer spent most of the time in the water working on spearing fish this year rather than diving for Abalone. His brother has developed some great spears and it was really neat to see at probably a dozen new divers this year between all the grandkids.

I was a little nervous to have Miss peanut at the beach - cause hello I'm not moving as fast these days and I will blink and she'll disappear. I was grateful to have so much help with keeping track of her. Glass Beach is always a favorite in Ft. Bragg and Miss Peanut loved it.
Daddy with Miss Peanut at Glass Beach

Michael showing Miss Peanut a crab he found.

Just playing.

We were also able to get family pictures with everyone - those are in the process of being edited by my wonderful sister - thanks for helping and letting us borrow your camera. Anyway, it was a wonderful trip and we were sad to come back, but we're here and now we've got a handful of weeks to get ready for this baby. I didn't think summer would go by quite so fast and here it is August.