Lake Tahoe

We just got back from a wonderful 6 day vacation with our friends Scott and Emily in Lake Tahoe.  They bought a house out there and invited us to be their first guests! We were so excited to get to go- we used to go all the time when Chris first started working with Scott.  It is a wonderful place to go if you've never been. We were thrilled to leave behind the 100 degree heat and enjoy highs in the lower 80's and lows in the 40's.

We were also lucky enough that my mom agreed to come with us to help with the kids so we could go out at night and have an extra pair of hands- with my mom its like an extra 3 pairs of hands! She is a HUGE help. Thank you so much for coming with us mom!

Here is a view from a really cool window in the game room. The house had 4 levels and all the rooms had views of the lake and mountains. It was awesome!

 Here is Elliott enjoying a nice soak in Auntie Em's master tub.  Berkley didn't want to. I had my turn next- I tried about 20 different ways to sit in there to get maximum jet coverage.

 Practicing my sunflare on the patio close to sunset

 The kitchen was awesome

 Chris worked in the mornings on Thurs and Friday so mom and I tried to get the kids out of the house. We took them to the park and the library on Thursday. Here's mom and Ebop.

 Patton trying to eat my face

 I am pretty sure this is my favorite picture from this trip.  (Only with the third kid would you prop them up on a park toy and step back for a cute shot....mom was pretty close though)

 On Friday we took the kids to the beach.  I was completely unprepared for such a trip. I thought it was still pretty chilly- see above pictures with jackets. So we just wore our clothes and grabbed some sand toys for the girls to play.  It was pretty hot out- so we sat there ruining their fun telling them not to splash too much and let them play for about an hour then headed home.  They got to go to the library with Chris for 4th of July stories and arts & crafts. I took a run/walk with Emily- up the mountain. It was quite terrible. We ran to the library after the mountain hike and I caught a ride with Chris- she was a trooper and went 8 miles total (including the run up and down the mountain) I totaled 5. I'm still paying for it. My shins are shot.

P and I at the beach

 Berk perched on a bucket. She refused to let me take pics of her this trip.

 This was trying to catch her in the house. She ran in circles away from me.

We also took a gondola ride to the top of the mountain- it was neat.  When we were coming back down there was a steep part- E and I started saying "Weeee and Woooo" Berkley joined in. When we stopped she said "Why were we saying weee and wooo?"

Another Berkley thing from the trip. She was VERY concerned about the whereabouts of our car. She asked about it every time we left the house for the first 2 days. 

Saturday we were more prepared for a beach trip. Mom stayed with P and Chris and I took the girls. E was the only one that braved the water. It was like ice cubes. See that snow on top of the mountains in the distance? Yeah. Cold.

 The girls had fun making sand castles

 Chris and E reading a bedtime story

 P taking a bath in the laundry room sink. He wanted to know why he couldn't use the big tub again.....

 Happily playing on the couch with "girlfriend"

 Sissy's smothering him

 Alert Alert. Get them away!

 Scott and Emily after our night out at the Casino.  I was playing roulette- betting on 6 for E and 3 for B. For some reason I decided to focus on the 6. Yeah 3 hit four different times after that. I still can't get over it. Typical Berkley- teach me to not bet on her!

 This is how we found the girls before we went to bed

4th of July we headed back home. My attempts to get pics of the kids in their cute clothes.

Berkley with scrunched eyes.

 There's a decent one!

 Berkley with her pirate face

 Our fam before heading to the airport

 Scott and P hanging out

 We got back to TX around 8- had dinner and met up with our neighbors for fireworks. It was a balmy 98 degrees. At 9:45. P was furious and had to strip off his sweaty clothes and watch them as "white trash baby" in his diaper- he enjoyed them though once he cooled down.

 Berk and Charlie are good buddies

 The girls on top of the car.

I have more pics on our phones- I will try to post them later. In case 30 pics isn't enough to capture our trip ;-)

I better get to bed- up late blogging because I"m still on west coast time. Here's to hoping the kids still are too......