Time with The Santa Rosa Peads

On Saturday July 12th we all went over to Kendall and Sheri's to visit and to let the kids play... They had a great time in the back yard and hit it off immediately. Kelsie, Kialie, and Laycee were great friends from then on and Blake said he wanted Wyatt to be his neighbor. They got a long famously from that point on. Freddy, Kaysen, Carter, and Brooklynn were just glad to be playing outside. We had a good time catching up and we gave some presents to Kendall and Sheri's kids for birthdays and Kelsie's baptism.

At 1:00 we went to a cute neighborhood park for a picnic in honor of Kelsie. The Hillstead family members and friends came too. It was a great lunch with sandwiches on sour dough bread and fruit and salads. It was all very good.

One funny thing is that Freddy was playing in the dirt and had it all over him from head to toe. He had let it sift everywhere and he was now a brunette with a uni-brow. Carter (1) walked over to him very concerned and said "Ah-oh" He was very worried that Fred was so dirty. We had a good laugh over that. No-one got pictures which is too bad.

After the park it was time to get ready for the baptism (see Kelsie Baptism post for more info.) Tubby time for everyone!!!

Kelsie and Carter

After the baptism Kendall and Sheri and kids came over to the hotel to go swimming. Everyone had fun despite the chilliness of water and later air.

Laycee having fun

On Sunday after church we went on an adventure... Sheri and Carter stayed behind because Carter was due for a melt down if a nap didn't happen. We were sorry that they couldn't come with us. After Loreen headed one van full of people in the wrong direction (Kendall chased us down) we got on our way on a great ride through Northern California. Our first stop was Armstrong grove... a Redwood forest. It was incredible. Pictures do not do justice to these beautiful trees. The kids found one tree and decided that it needed to have a girls side and a boys side. Pictures below ...

After the Redwoods we went to a Beach... We couldn't really swim here because of the sleeper waves so we all held hands and waited for the huge waves to sweep in from different directions and get us wet. We saw sea lions and all of a sudden Kendall sighted something out in the water. Upon further scrutiny we figured out it was whales. We could see their blows and then parts of their bodies while they came up and down out of the water. One time a good view of a head another an awesome view of a tail. There had to be a pod out there because there were blows and sightings every few minutes. Incredible. Funny thing is that when Madge heard we would be going to the water she wanted to see whales and we were all telling her not to count on it. Hmmm.. to say the least she was excited.