Camping at Lake Hemet - May 2010

Lake Hemet was a blast! I bought my brother's tent trailer the beginning of May for a birthday/graduation present for Barry, and we took it out for our first 2010 camping trip on May 21st. We had never been to Lake Hemet, but we got a really great spot right next to the playground. This first picture was the view from our site.

The fish were flopping and jumping all over the place. The lake was FULL! We tried day fishing, night fishing and every kind of fishing in between and didn't catch one single fish! It was really a shame.

Our cute little angels: ALL FOUR OF THEM! They had a great time enjoying the beautiful outdoors.

What a great little location. Our site backed up right to the opening of the playground so the kids could go swing, slide, and climb whenever they wanted. Annie did so good on her first camping trip and Fischer even enjoyed himself reading books and a little fishing too! :)

The trailer was awesome. The first night I couldn't get the gas to come on, then figured out my human error the next morning so we had heat the 2nd night. It was really icy cold and windy during the day and night so it was good we got it to work.

Next trip: Green Valley Lake, July 16-18!!!!

Biscuit - the new puppy

Barry brought home a new puppy on June 8, 2010. Much to the girls delight. We named him Biscuit. He is really cute and loves to be around people all the time. Abby seems to have adjusted well to him. Here's some pictures the day he came home at 10 weeks old.

And here are some new pictures a month later at 15 weeks old. He's gotten so big already!

Barry's birthday - May 24, 2010

I'm kinda posting these backwards, but oh well. Barry had a special 29th birthday in that he finished his Bachelor's degree requirements on that day! Congratulations my love and happy birthday! :) We were going to have dinner at his favorite restaurant in Victorville, Johnny Reb's, but it was closed. So we went to Roadhouse Grill instead. Barry's family joined us, but there weren't any pictures taken of his mom :( Sorry Mary!

Our 5th Anniversary - June 4, 2010

Happy 5th Anniversary!! We had such a great weekend being able to run around and do anything we wanted to quickly and without lugging extra stuff or kids! I can't believe we didn't get any pictures of our awesome hotel room or the amazing swimming pool. The first night we got to the hotel around 11pm and the night audit clerk let us into the spa after hours. It was so relaxing and QUIET!!!!


Our first day was spent at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, Ca. We had a great time acting like kids, riding all the big roller coasters and enjoying the park.

The lovebirds




Day 2 we took a drive up to Lake Piru to see what it had to offer and if it would be a good place to go camping. NOT!!! It was $10 to get in just to look around and it wasn't much to look at. The lake was really nice, but if you don't have a boat it's not really worth it. The campsites weren't as nice as we've seen in other places, so I would not recommend this place. However, there was a beautiful horse ranch on the way to the lake and we got a pretty picture:

Night 2: I surprised Barry by taking him on a murder mystery dinner train in Fillmore (on the 126, west of Valencia). The train rode along slowly to Santa Paula and back. It was a lot of fun but our dinner car got really hot (they need to fix the a/c!)

Us with the theatre coordinator. She was the drunk lady :)

Overall, we had a fantastic getaway and are so thankful for Barry's mom coming to watch the kids for three whole days. What a treat!!!

Visit from April & Charlie - June 2010

Shelly's best friend April and her son Charlie came to visit our family for a weekend in June. We had so much fun going to the L.A. Zoo, the Wrightwood Country Club, and hanging out at home. Thanks for driving all the way from Denair to see us (it took 7 hrs right?!) I'm still trying to upload the zoo pictures from my cell phone... they will be posted soon :)


Chloe and Charlie swimming



April posing



Charlie & April playing tetherball



Charlie and Gracie