Week at the Coast Post #2

As promised, I have stolen pictures from my brother-in-law's blog and my sister-in-law's facebook to bring you this next post:

Fishing

Isn't this picture of a Ling Cod's mouth great! Great catch Chris!

My fisherman

Now those are manly hands!

Family

Zackary

Sadie

Cameron, Maddi and Todd enjoy smores

Madison, Noah and Chase on the beach

Cameron and Maddi

Brenden's sand race car (ok, so he isn't family but isn't that car awesome!)

Braden, probably throwing sand or rocks if I had to guess

Mackenzie would not let Papa out of her sight!

Some of the Carter cousins together

The 60's Era Hippies' Party!

We had a fun time tie-dying shirts for this event. The costumes were great!

I still have to laugh when i look at my father-in-law's costume. It was great! How can he go from this

to this

to this!

The decor was awesome as always

And the chefs did a wonderful job as well!

Can't wait for next year!!!

We recently got back from a WEEK LONG vacation at the Coast! It was awesome! It was the first whole week Jason has taken off since he started his business. We were able to camp with most of Jason's family. His parents, Chris' family, Nathan's family, Jen's family and the Bellante's also joined the Carter family for a day or two as well. We had lots of beach time, Jason went on a couple fishing trips, went to the light house, to the river, to the park, to the annual Anchor Bay party (this year was Hippie's theme), etc., etc. Here are a few pics:


Braden

Bruiser

Mackenzie

Blue eyes :)

Sadie and Zackary boxing on wii while the babies take naps

Cameron and Sadie at the fish house with the catch of the day



Beach time!



On trail to the town behind the campground

Braden's obsession

Beautiful day at the river

Splashing with cousins

LOVING the Ocean!

Beach Babe

The grand kids take a walk with Nana on the beach

Stay tuned for more pics that I copy from Chris' blog. Or just visit his blog yourself. ;) See Chris and Traci link to the right.

On the Delta

Since my camera is retarded, I saved these pictures a friend took to my computer from Facebook. Is there a way to copy them with better resolution?

Don't you love that hair and those glasses?!

Zombie

Its been a while since I have updated, Mackenzie now has her front teeth!

Instead of being a "vampire", she is affectionately "zombie". She took her first steps at her birthday party, but not until last week (about a month after her party) she decided that she would be a walker and not a crawler. She does very well, but does usually keep her legs very stiff, reminding me of the way Hollywood depicts zombies in the movies. :)



Look how her hair is getting so much longer, curlier, and blonder!




Being outside is her favorite thing to do right now.

With Braden, mostly. She seams to be kind of a tomboy right now, and shares more of the same interests with Braden. She loves getting messy.

She prefers to play with cars over dolls. She doesn't care much for affection. Except from family. Sadie would hold hands and hug anyone. Not Mackenzie. It will be interesting to see if that changes later on.

She has always been into climbing, and now she can climb up the play structure by herself and go down the slide! What a big girl!

STRONG!

The other day Braden came up with this. He had just got out of his morning bath and came up to Jason and told him, "Daddy, look at my muscles!" and sucked in his stomach to grab his RIBCAGE (his muscles)! Ha, ha! We had a good laugh at that one!

Not sure how to rotate this video... Sorry, you have to view it sideways.

Finishing up June

I have been so bad with taking pictures lately. We have been having so much fun and I have been slacking at picture duty.

Some of the fun adventures we have had in June are:

Sadie's Preschool Graduation
Landscaping the front yard
Another trip to the Coast
Father's Day and our 7th Anniversary were on the 21st!
Annual Lake Hogan Camping/Boating Trip
Started Soccer for Sadie and Braden


Sadie's graduation was while I was in Idaho/Utah so I missed it. Jason and his parents were able to go though and they told me how cute it was. I am bummed I missed it. Hopefully I can steal Jason's dad's pictures of the day sometime. :)


Jason and I decided to landscape the front and side yard this month. We have been wanting to move so put off finishing the job we started over a year ago when I was pregnant with Mackenzie. Jason keeps saying how it is so ghetto here and that we need to move so he didn't want to put the money into it. But walking around our (immediate) neighborhood, our house had one of the most ghetto yards being half finished. I just didn't feel right about complaining about the ghetto if our house was a part of it. So we have a friend that is a landscaper that told us what plants we should get and how we should arrange it (since we have no idea) and just bought baby plants with a Lowes gift card we had. It looks so much better!


We went to the coast (again) to take the trailer back home.


{Mackenzie with her big girl ponytail}

It is so relaxing there, we have such a good time whenever we go.

Jason tried to take us to another beach from his youth but couldn't find it. But we did get to explore some other beaches in the area.




{Sadie with the best sand face plant ever}

It was our 7th Anniversary and Father's Day on Sunday as we were coming back from Anchor Bay. I am ashamed to say we didn't do anything to celebrate either. Well, I guess we did get to make a trip to the coast, but I feel bad I didn't do anything special. :( I am so bad.


Lake Hogan was a blast as always. We went there last weekend with the Kreys, the Johnsons, and the Morleys. What a crazy/fun group! There were lots more kids around than usual since we were the young family in the group. The kids were from ages 11-5 besides our little ones and Jeff and Lauren's 4 month old baby. Its always fun when the kids have playmates when we go camping. And I didn't have to worry about Sadie and Braden as much since there were older kids around keeping an eye on them. It was so hot but the water was perfect. Layne was super brave to tent camp at 8 months pregnant!
It was fun watching fireworks on the water. We couldn't believe it when Aaron skinny-dipped off the boat during the firework show, but shouldn't have been surprised after spending the weekend with him. LOL! Cindy and Ken tried wakeboarding for their first times, they did awesome. Jeff and Lauren brought up their new jet ski and let us play on it a little bit too. Braden's highlight of the trip was driving the jet ski. :) We had so much fun getting to know these families better.


Soccer... well, it was interesting. I will have to wait to see as time goes on how it goes with Sadie and Braden. I think Sadie likes it but may be in a class to young for her. Braden just needs to get into it a little more and not give up so easily. We'll see how it goes...