Vacation 2008 - Last Post

Friday (08-08-08) was the last day we did something special for our vacation. We used the Olympics as a starting theme and built up from there. We started by taking our girls to see Kung Fu Panda at the cheap theater. Since the Olympics were to be held in China.

Then we came home and had Wii Olympics for our girls. This was a lot of fun to watch them compete with each other. We even printed up medals for them and awarded them for each sport. We had competitions in bowling, baseball, tennis and golf. Here are the girls with their "hardware."

Abby was a little tired from all the excitement.

We picked up Chinese food for dinner. And watched part of the opening ceremonies. It was really neat to see the smaller countries' uniforms, they were actually original. We put the girls to bed about 10:00 pm (two hours after their bed time). I kept Richard up to watch the United States walk in. I was very disappointed with the uniforms and that the cameras spent most of their time on Kobe Bryant. I would have rather have seen some of the lesser known athletes. We were specifically watching for Allyson Felix, but later found out she did not participate that night. She was in another part of China preparing for her race. 

All in all it was a great day to make good memories with our daughters.

I forgot to post my favorite camp picture. It is of my amazing husband. 

Thank you for stopping by!

Camping 2008

Around the campfire. Notice the train coming from the left.

As I was transferring pictures from my camera to computer today I realized I had not finished posting about our vacation this year.
Our vacation in a nutshell was very much God's will not our plans. Many of the things we planned on doing just did not happen. As I reflected on it later I realized God kept us home to rest up for the upcoming busy season.
One detour was our week of camping. We left for the campground on Monday morning and returned home on Tuesday evening. We were supposed to spend a week there. Richard and Rebekah had the stomach flu and Hannah had Fifths Disease. We decided Tuesday evening we better head home, Richard was in pain, Bekah was just miserable and Hannah could not be in the sun. We told the girls we were leaving and they all cried, but I am happy they all got on board to tear down camp.
By God's grace I took 51 pictures in the short time that we were there. Here are some of the highlights.

The train going by overhead. These trains are so quiet.

Making smores!

Our campfire right before we put it out. Notice the pretty heart shape.

4th Day of Vacation

Today was a quiet day for us, we didn't do a day trip. We hung around the house and even took a nap (yeah!!!). In the afternoon we ran some errands and came home so I could cook dinner. After dinner the girls cleaned up and now I am blogging. I am planning to go to bed early. Here are the only two pictures I took today:

Bekah and Hannah doing the dishes.

Rachel sweeping under the table.

Hopefully, we will do something a little more exciting tomorrow.

3rd Day of Vacation

Today we were able to enjoy the Orange County Fair for our third day of vacation. We each took a new children's book and received free admission and a free carnival ride. Once again, we had beautiful weather. Here are some snap shots from our day.

Not a family member, just a really cool looking goat. He was causing trouble in his pen. 

I still can't tell how he was able to see anything.

Yes, my girls are milking a plastic cow. And yes, Hannah is standing behind a cow.

This pig is 4 years old, she had just given birth to 5 pigs three weeks ago. 

Look at Abby's face, she had just touched her skin and said very loudly, "It's hard."

This little guy is only 11 days old. He was on everyone's favorite thing of the day list.

Very  appropriate, this is one of the girl's favorite foods.

Saboo. This is a sad looking water buffalo.

All my dairy girls.

This was our first time going to the OC Fair, we had a lot of fun. I honestly, could not believe the amount of food booths in such a small area. It did smell good though.

2nd Day of Vacation

We had a low-keyed day today. We took the girls to the movies this morning for a free showing of The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. When we were leaving we saw a woman staring at us in the parking lot. She said, "Did you feel it?" "Feel what?," was my response. She said we had just had a big earthquake. Praise God we did not feel it.

After, the movies we ran errands and went and worked at our church for a few hours. Not so relaxing, but definitely a productive day.

Hopefully, I will have pictures tomorrow.

1st Day of Vacation

Yummy!

Today, is the first day of our vacation. We have decided to stay home this week. We could not have asked for better weather. Here are some of the pictures from today, the 6 loads of laundry not pictured.

Rich enjoying a good book and the weather.



The girls are recycling flowers and tree limb.



She is still not sure of this pole.



Just playing with the camera.

One of our snacks today courtesy of our good friends' thoughtfulness. You guys rock.

What I am reading this vacation.