BACK TO SCHOOL LATE NIGHT!

This year we decided to have our kids end their summer with a bang! We invited a few of their friends over for a late night. We had pizza, played several reindeer games & ended the night with a movie. It was a lot of fun & not as crazy as you might expect. Of course, I made sure that I sent all the kids home full of sugar. It's only fair since they were all here for 4 hours. Thanks everyone for all the great snacks & for having such great kids!

SAN DIEGO 2008

When is Sea World too much? When you go 5 times in 1 week. A little excessive? Perhaps but we had a great time. Now we're not crazy, we didn't spend 5 whole days there. We did 2 evenings & 3 day trips. Culligula had a business trip there so the rest of us decided to tag along for the week. The boys & I had a great time hanging out at Sea World & then we did 2 days at the beach. We also spent a day in Las Vegas before San Diego & then 2 days in Vegas afterward. It was a long trip but definitely worth it.

FAVORITE MOMENTS:

• (Ja-Ja) playing with cars @ Bryce's b-day party in Vegas
• (Combi) all the Sea World shows
• (Mr. Kay-Bee formerly known as Jaycon Jones) Shamu
• (Culligula) Seal night show; playing Bingo w/Bryan in Vegas
• (Pooka) not having to cook
• the beach
• Shamu firework show
• hanging with our Vegas friends
• bbq @ Lance's house in San Diego
• feeding the dolphins & seals

ISLAND PARK JULY 2008

Here is the 1st of many trips to Island Park this summer. As usual we were there during the 4th of July & we also celebrated the cabin's 60th anniversary. We were joined by Culligula's parents & most of his siblings.

Our Favorite Memories:

• hiking on Coffeepot Trail
• catching minnows
• Culligula fishing with Dakota & then Kes & catching a billion fish!
• the boys getting to play with their cousins every minute of the day
• spending the day in Yellowstone Pk & almost hitting a buffalo on the way home
• getting to wear our flag shirts
• watching the fireworks at West Yellowstone
• the cousin scavenger hunt
• going to the Meadow Vu rodeo & dutch oven dinner
• killing Dakota at speed
• Ja-Ja & Combi learning to shoot a bow & arrow
• the boys getting new Yellowstone shirts
• staying up every night until 3 or 4am
• getting to know Stef better