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Camping With Clarendon SC’s 1st Grades

22 May 2012

We had so much fun, and Oscar wants to go back again, asap.
I considered it a “warm up” for real camping, because this was too easy!
This is where we stayed, in Cloverdale:
http://winecountrykoa.com/
The kabins have electricity, and are even nicer than the Lair. Oscar ran around, or biked, unsupervised, with his buddies. Well, not completely unsupervised, – all the parents participated in an informal zone defense. The kids played pick up wiffle ball, and who knows what else. Something called Everybody It Tag. It was awesome to hang out with the families.
We got to leave Lucy with Omi & Opi, so we could relax, and drink, and not worry about Lucy kamikazeing into the lake. Thanks Omi! (Lucy did great)

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Just Arriving


Pretty enough, plus a fountain too.


Oscar and Shayan checking out their new digs


People loved the small effort we made to decorate


The Pool.


Oscar got to swim all day with all his buddies. It was absolutely the. best.


Running around with friends


Oscar is friendly with the girls, and saw no problem accepting their invitation to join them.


I LOVE this pic


I LOVE this one too


Best Buds (Ariel)


Parting shot

Weekend in Sebastopol

30 Apr 2012

A sunny and warm weekend!


We are off to Kathy’s (next door).


The pool was so quiet you could hear the bees buzzing around the lavender.


Kathy leant Oscar some fun goggles.


Goofing off


A wild turkey, who made a break for it when I showed up.


Happy Booker


My favorite shot of the weekend – click this one to see large


Omi was excited to see all her iris in bloom


The tomato field, prepped for planting


My favorite – I mean really, giant yellow farm roses? Whats not to love?


Giving the dollies a tour


The apple trees are still in bloom


Meet Jake. He belongs to a neighbor.


Teenager Chickens


Oscar can’t quite catch one yet, so Mark helped. I think it’s great when the kids can pet the chickens.


The pony


Friendly butterfly


As close as he could get :)

Beautiful Day In Napa

28 Jun 2011

The Schmidts invited us up to enjoy the pool and a barbeque at Carmen’s home in Silverado. We got our first swimming of the summer! The weather was absolutely perfect.


The Kellys came along too – aren’t they so cute?

Helmut caught a baby rattlesnake! It wanted to bite us, but it couldn’t get out of the bucket. He took this pic:

I had a couple of drinks, relaxed, and promptly forgot to take any more photos until we were leaving. The food was amazing. (Wish I had a photo.) Carmen made her Salvadoran baked beans. Lucy ate steak and ribs!

The sun is setting so late these days, and of course we weren’t watching the clock. The kids were up past 9. Counting the fact that Lucy only slept 30 minutes in the car, and swam for a couple hours, it might as well have been midnight for her. Thanks honey for driving us home safely! :) Also, thanks Jamey and Helmut – awesome day!!

May 1st Brings Sunshine!

02 May 2011

April showers bring May flowers… That’s what Oscar has been telling me. We have some flowers, and I can see more to come, but what we were loving yesterday was all the sunshine! We were in the backyard alllll day.

It was a good “love thy neighbor” day too! (in the photos are Livvy and Cora from next door, and Lachlan from upstairs)

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