Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Warm River '11

The weekend after Jason's week off was the Marriott Reunion at Warm River. There wasn't many people there this year, but it was fun to see who was able to come. We had lot's of fun, and are so glad that we got to see the few who came!

 A bald eagle in a tree across the river
 Asher and the little/big kids (ages 4 and under) decided they needed to make their own fire
 I think they ended up taking every piece of firewood from the pile by the fire to their spot up by the picnic tables
 Asher kept getting in trouble by Sereniti because he would sit on the pile, and then they couldn't put anymore on. And the fact that it was a "fire". Side note: after they got the "fire" all built up I over hear the kids talking and Sereniti says that they need to light it and Koden says "I have a match in my pocket!" And I'm pretty sure he did! They didn't actually light their fire though, thankfully!
 Playing on some big rocks with Trae
 I love Trae's face! And poor Shanyce! Here eat a stick! I save her right after I took the picture.
 Our only trip down the river. Asher was tired and fell asleep on the way down, so we ended up getting out right after this picture was taken so he didn't wake up when we went over the rapids. We are at the very back of the  picture.
 Asher and Dad after the excursion
 And yes he is totally my son, and is not wearing any shoes. I totally have a hard time enforcing him to wear shoes everywhere when I don't like  to wear shoes either, and didn't most of childhood in the summer. Jason is the shoe enforcer. 
 Playing with Trae
 The big kids made a huge tower from all the tubes
 Trae was so tired from playing he couldn't even finish dinner
 Playing chase me with Dad
 Catch me Dad!


 He loved playing football with Kobe
 And frisbee with Krey and Renni
 We had to do some fishing of course
 I love how he sticks his tongue out when he concentrates! 
 He tries to put his fishing pole in his pocket. It doesn't work so well.

 Playing cars with Trae
So tired! (On our way home)

Our Stay-Cation

Jason had the whole week after Asher's birthday off. So we had a stay at home vacation! It was so fun and very relaxing. We went to Pocky for Jason to take a test at ISU to test out of Spanish and finally get his Bachelor's! While we were waiting for Dad, Asher and I went to WalMart and spent his birthday money on some new cars, and then killed some time at the mall. We did things like feeding the ducks, playing at the park and in our backyard, BBQ'ed, and we even went to Kung Fu Panda 2 at Paramount for free! (Asher was already free, and then, it was the last day of their summer film showings, and the guy in front of us had two left so he gave them to us!) It was Asher first time at the theater, and he did really well, and loved the show (even though he fell asleep with like 15 minutes left). It was such a fun week, and very much needed, and I think we've decided to do it at least once a year!

Feeding the ducks at the Greenbelt 

 And of course we had to have a picnic too!

 Him and his Lightning and Mater Cars he got with his birthday money

Throwing the bread
 Playing at home
 Where's Asher?

 He loves to wear Mr. Potato Head's glasses
 At the theater before Kung Fu Panda started