Camping!!

This past weekend we went camping with our friends, the Wards. We camped at Scotts Flat Lake. Had a blast!! Thank you Sid for letting us borrow the boat!! We had so much fun on it, probably spent about half of our four days there on the boat!! Ava, loved camping, she was a filthy mess for most of the time, but that's what happens when you camp with a 14 month old. Here are a few of our pictures, I know there is a lot here, but I took tons of pictures, it was hard to narrow it down for the blog.

Ava loved being in the tent, when we first set it up we couldn't get her out of it.
My silly little boat girl. She LOVED being on the boat!!

Ava and Jacob. Ava was always stealing Jacobs binkie, which is funny because she never really took a binkie when she was a baby.

Steven & Ava and Brandon & Jacob. Daddy's and their dirty face babies.

This is the whole group.

Jacob hanging out on the boat

My little water baby

We did A LOT of fishing, but noooo catching

Hanging out at the campsite

The babies took quite a few naps on the boat

Maggie and I getting ready for tubing.

We hiked around the lake to the dam

Playing in the boat

cute little Jacob

The boys made a HUGE fire the last night we were there

Ava thought the water was a little too cold...

...she was much happier wrapped up with daddy.

Decided to try again...

...nope never mind.

We wished the weather was a little warmer while we were there, but luckily it's a warm lake, so we still did lots of swimming, tubing and stuff, it was just a little chilly when we got out of the water. It was a great trip, with great food and great company! We can't wait to go next year!

Also..

Here is a short little video of Ava walking around the front yard. I haven't posted a video of her walking yet...so here you go! Hope this works, I've never posted a video before.

The front yard and playing outside

Ava loves to play outside! So, I took a few pictures of her playing in the yard yesterday. I also took some of our flowers we planted this year. We, are trying to finish up our front yard, we still have a few things to do, but I like how it's turning out! We don't know very much about plants and flowers, so this is a learning experience for us. I just want color, I love color in yards!

Charlee loves to play outside too!

Our front planter, right underneath our front window as your walking up to our door. I know the flowers and things are very random...this is kind of a trial year for us. Next spring we will have a better idea of what grows well and what we like. So far, some things have grown really well and others have not. We are excited for the Japanese Maple in the back corner to grow though!

The planter in the bottom corner of the yard. We are happy with the Birch Trees. We are still trying to figure out what to plant around them.

One of my favorites, right up by our front door. Can't remember the name of it though, I'm really bad about that. I'm sure some of you reading this will probably know, I think it's a fairly common flower.

Another one I really like, I love the purple!

This is our house. I figured I better take a couple of pictures of it now. We are getting ready to change the siding and paint it. Hoping that it will help it look more updated. We hate the siding it has now, very 70's. And it can definitly use a new paint job!

We still have a few things to do in the front yard, a few weeds that keep coming back...argh! But, I really like how it's turning out, and I think when the new siding is up and it's all painted it will look really nice! Next is the backyard....that is going to be a BIG job!! Probably won't be finished until next spring, we need to save up a while. I'm going try to take pictures as we go, I didn't do that with the front yard, so I don't have any before pictures...it was pretty run down when we first moved in.

That's all for now, I haven't blogged in a while, so I figured I better get something up. Hope everyone is enjoying the beginning of their summers!