Carlsbad August 2008

For Labor Day we went to Carslbad, California and camped on the beach. It was one of the funnest vacations ever!! We played in the sand and water all day long. Then at night we sat around the campfire and had smores, what can get any better than that???? It was our kids first time boogy boarding and they all loved it. Chloe was learning to walk and she would take off into the water and walk like 10 steps, then fall and laugh. It was so cute!! We were there with like 8 familys were friends with, so the kids all had a least one friend to play with all the time. Our campsite was overlooking the ocean, it was beautiful!! We all had a great time!!!!

Sara and Hannah boogy boarding.
Tim and Julie.

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This was out group on pot luck night, that was our campsite.

Bill and Chloe.

Becca and Timmy loved playing in the sand.
On Sunday a few families in our group went to church. One of the families showed up a few minutes late and the guy, Brad Crane, showed up in a dark blue sweatshirt. After Sacrament meeting he said they were all ready and something hit him in the face and shirt. He said to his wife Tawnya "What the crap is that?" She said "crap". He said "ya, what the crap is that?" She said "crap, thats what it is!" A seagull had hit the target, he had seagull crap all over him. Gross!!!!!

Tri in the Pines August 2008

In August we all went up to Showlow to do a triathlon. From the Ferrin Family there was 16 of us who did the race. 6 adults and 10 kids. From our family it was Bill, me, Sara, Hannah, Becca, and Timmy. Then there was Rob, Jen, Ashlee, Blake, Spencer, and Emmee. Also Randy, Meredith, Travis, and Taylor. We all had so much fun!!! It was so fun watching all the kids, they worked so hard and all did great!! Larry and Diana and Sean and Shari came and watched and helped with all the kids while all the adults were doing our triathlon. Then we all went out for Mexican Food afterwards. We took up a whole back room at the restraunt. We'll for sure do that triathlon again next year, what a blast!!!!

Becca with her medals
Timmy finishing with his cousin Kaybree. She didn't run the race she just wanted to run in with Timmy.

Hannah on the bike.


Sara running out of the bike transition.

All of the Ferrin Family triathletes. Everyone did awesome!!!

Lake Powell July 2008

We went to Lake Powell July 9-12. Bill calls Lake Powell the happiest place on earth. He loves going there!! We had a great trip! The first afternoon we only had a few hours but the water was perfect!! Chloe did not enjoy her first trip to the lake, she screamed almost the whole time. She didn't like the life jacket on. We shared a room with the Horlachers, they are a really fun family! The kids all shared the living room, both couples had our own rooms. The whole place stunk like urine so bad!! Gross!!! The second day was so windy the water was to choppy, so the kids played on the beach a lot, tubed, and cliff jumped. They loved it!! That night at the Walmart they had the monster truck school bus and they were giving rides, so we all went for a ride. That was crazy!! It seriously turned on a dime!! We would cruise and you'd have to hold on because it spun so fast!!! The last day at the lake the water was awesome so we wakeboarded, kneeboarded, tubed, and bodysurfed, what can get any better than that??? The Horlachers went on our boat with us, so we all had that much more fun! Christine and I have a lot of fun tubing together. We were flying, really fast and really high! Sara and Nicole are the tubing machines, they go forever. Every kids favorite thing to do is the tubes! It was a great trip!!!

In the beginning.....

A lot of people have been doing blogs as a type of journal so I thought it would be fun to try one too. I know its October but I am going to start with a few fun trips we did this summer. We do a lot of fun things together as a family, hopefully my kids will have a lot of great memories of their childhood. It goes by so fast, they are growing up so fast, so I'm hoping this blog will help them and me remember all the great times we have together!!!