Recent Reads

More JR Ward.....the best

Before Ever After was wonderful......Vivian read this! You would love it.

I'm really enjoying Cathy Lamb. This is the second book of hers that I have read recently. I cried my way through the end of this book. Her books are set in Oregon. This one was in Portland & Ashland.

Turn of Mind was fine enough, but not great.

Diamond Lake Day 4

Day 4, our last day at the lake. It included lots of popsicles and walking trips to the market. My dad had given each of the girls spending money, so they had to spend it, right?

Bumper boats.....

There were TONS of these little butterflies around

A really long walk with Sage, Sadie, Scott, and Lucy.

Sweet Lucy girl. She is so old (14) and the traveling and being out of her routine was tough on her, but overall, she did well. She loved being out and smelling all the different scents.

Feeding ducks of off our dock

Taking a little boat ride with my Dad

Brother in Law James

Sage & Boo Boo

My parents (Happy 40th!)

Another trip to the market for a lollipop

Me & my girl

An evening fire

A sunset kayak ride. Scott got swarmed by mosquitos during this ride

My sister, her family, and my mom

James, being silly

We went home the next day. We made some wonderful memories. Scott & I are planning on going back by ourselves for our anniversary next year.

Witches of East End

Great new series that I started. There is only one book out so far and I really really enjoyed it!

What Alice Forgot

Great book! Super fun, easy, and very interesting read.

Diamond Lake Day 3

Feeding the squirrels

More squirrel feeding

Being silly

The Nerd Herd

Sun-bathing

Lots and lots of dock jumping!

The Dads and Pop Pop took the kids out fishing on the boat

On the boat

Sagey and Uncle Jam (his name is James, but she calls him Uncle Jam!)

A beautiful sunset

Sadie

Tessa

My sweet darling

Diamond Lake Day 2

Day 2 at Diamond Lake....before I start, I need to say that I should be ashamed of myself as a scrapbooker. I put very little effort into my picture taking (I was too busy with my geriatric dog), so the quality isn't the best and I didn't document everything. In fact, I documented very little. I didn't even get a family picture! Bad bad me!

Tessa, my 12 year old niece, making homeade cinnamon rolls with her little helper. The rolls were out of this world delicious (and I didn't photograph them). Tessa is turning into quite the little baker.

Lots and lots of fishing took place for my dad, Scott, and brother in law James. Here's Scott getting ready to go out on the boat.

My Dad loading the boat. Our cabin had its own private boat dock which we also swam off of. We never had to go to the public beach. It was awesome.

Our cabin. It was fabulous. It had 4 large bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. A kitchen, family room, and living room. It was so roomy and fit our entire family perfectly.

Tessa & Sage getting ready for a swim off of our dock.

Sadie, my 10 year old niece, and Sage swimming around.

Everyone in the water! Mt Bailey is in the background. It was our view from the front deck!

More lounging dockside (that's my sister on the dock)

We did lots of biking too. Scott rode the entire 11 mile path around the lake in less than 50 minutes! We recently got new bikes and we really broke them in on this trip. Sage, of course, wouldn't go near her bike.

Pop Pop (my Dad) with his girls!

Sunset on the dock.

An awesome lightning storm blew in suddenly and this was the exact color of the atmosphere. It was awesome!