Lake Roosevelt Camping Trip Extravaganza

Camping is awesome, especially on the lake. So Hoopfest weekend we took off to the water because we knew that it would be peaceful and not crowed. Our friends Malia, Nick, Oliver and Niles joined us for Maes first camping trip. Gma and Gpa Mac were so awesome and they let us borrow their Boat and their Truck so we could go camping on the Lake.

Here are Sean and Nick we have just begun our journey at this point. We were scouting out the perfect camp site. One with Beach and Trees. The weather was amazing in the mid 90's and not a cloud in the sky.

Welcome to camp Llamacorn. Oliver found this stick and named it. Then we had a discussion that that is what we should call our campsite.
Another view of the amazing site. As you can see Trees and Beach. Almost perfect except for the millions of ants. But what can you do its camping and bugs come with camping.
This is Mae and I relaxing on the Boat. You can see my feet and her head. The boat was a great place to hang with her because it kept her contained and not eating sand and rocks.
Mae and Sean on the morning of our 2nd day there.

Pretty much all we did that day was lay around and nap. Sean hopped in the boat and took pics of Mae and I sleeping. Note the foot on the face. How am I even sleeping?
Then I got up to read and Sean laid down by her, and he fell asleep with her. I love how they are both covering their eyes. Finally nap time was over and Sean had to fix the anchor. Mae had so much fun watching him dive in and out of the water. And look how big she is supporting herself.
Goggle face Sean. Now you can see why Mae was so entertained.
I wonder what they are plotting?


Splish splash Mae was in the lake and not eating rocks. Mostly because of my brilliant plan to put a sheet in the water to cover them. and Sean questioned my packing sheets. I said hey babe you never know what you'll need them for. And now I will always take a sheet to the lake.
As you can tell she loves it!
And loves it!
She also loves Chile. Sean was feeding her the Chile for our Chile Dogs.
I think this Picture is awesome with her crazy messy Chile face. MMMMMM GOOD!!!

Meet the 3 eyebrow witch Malia.
Gossip mags by the fire. Nothing better then that.
These next 3 pics are just more super cute Mae in the water pictures. Man she is taking huge steps here.
I love how her hat is all crazy and she has a spaz happy face on while kicking the water with all her might.
And last but not least the tongue roll shot. That she got from her dad. Him and all his siblings can do it, and I gotta admit it was pretty funny watching them all do it with her the other day.
Well Maes first camping trip was a success, and that's a good thing because we have 2 more to go this summer.

Gardning

My little helper. She was so cute the other day when Sean and I were doing some yard work. I had her on a blanket but then she had enough of that and started playing in the dirt on the edges.

She was concentrating very hard on her work.Making sure the piece of slate was perfectly clean.
Gotta get my hands in the dirt, well that's what I think she was thinking.
You can see how she was working on smoothing out that dirt patch. Well hopefully she will like pulling weeds cause lord knows we have plenty to pull out.

More Summer Track

Ok here are more summer track pictures. Seans cousin Matt (who also took our wedding pics) was in town and his son Riley was at the meet so he was there taking RAD pictures of it all and he emailed them to us the other day. So I had to blog them.

My hottie Sean, he looks so good coaching it up.

Mamma and Mae, getting Mae ready to High Jump.
Check out that form. I think shes a natural.
Over she goes.
Maybe she got dizzy I can't tell.
I will say it was so cute when Sean and I were looking at the pics that Matt sent Mae was on Sean lap and she totally recognized herself and was cooing to her pics.

Pool Time

Mae got to finally got to the pool a couple of weeks ago also and she loved it. It was a bit overcast but still hot. We didn't stay very long but long enough that she was able to cool off a bit.

This is her first dip. You can see her hot little cheeks.

She wouldn't look at the camera. Sean was showing her how to splash and you know what she has totally figured it out, any body of water that she is in now she splashes like a maniac.

Merry Go-Round

The pictures are a little blurry but a couple of weeks ago we went Downtown to spend the day at the park. So of course we took her on the Carousel. She seemed to like it and held on to the pole while it was going. She didn't seem to be to dizzy when it was done but I'm glad I didn't have to take her on it again because I was kinda dizzy myself.

We made sure to get a horse next to Malia and Niles so the kids could ride the ride together. If I remember right Niles liked it once it got going.
But it was a fun day Mari and Madi also came down to enjoy the nice weather and just hang out too!

Super Crawler

Mae has been crawling everywhere. Its a lot of fun but I really have to keep the floors clean now. The other day I went into the kitchen looking for Mae and this is what I found. Mae under the Buffet playing with a cord. You'll notice the Tupperware on the floor, that is for Mae to play with not me being messy.

Oh hello cord.
So cute she fits under it perfectly.
Oh now she goes for the Tupperware. You'll also notice that she is on her stomach the whole time and that is because she army crawls and pics up all kinds of dirt and grit on her onseies, so not fun.

We're Still Around

Ok so I know I haven't blogged in forever. But Once again life has gotten so busy with weekend fun and night time hanging with friends that we haven't hardly been home to clean the house let alone blog. So things are going to slow down a bit so there will be a new post this week and maybe more cause if I find time for 1 I can find time for 5 or so. Like I said too busy. But Mae has been on her first camping trip and to Pikes place Market in that time so I'll be posting some pics soon. So start stalking this week and you shall be rewarded.

50 Meter Dash Champ

Mae is officially the youngest (7 1/2 months) assisted 50 meter dash champ at the Summer meets, at SFCC.

It was so much fun to take her to the track meet last week and let her play on the track. She has been to so many meets already that she was actually pretty excited to get to run. At every summer meet they run the 50 meter dash for the youngins. Its so dang cute all these munchkins running their little hearts out, sometimes even in a straight line. And since Mae has been walking holding onto our fingers I figured she would love it. Oh I don't have pics of it but she also High Jumped (with my help of course).

The start of the race. The little grey Adidas shorts she has on Sean bought for her because he said that he had a pair like them when he was a baby. You can tell by her face she was loving it.

Still going strong.
The end, so tired but she ran the whole way which surprised me.

YEAH MAE YOU ROCK!!!!!!!

Fathers Day @ The Lake

We finally made it out to the lake. We have been so busy that we haven't been able to make it to the last few Lake Dinners. But boy we sure picked a good one to make it to. The weather was amazing and the water was surprisingly warm. Even though I didn't get all the way in and just stayed by the edge with Mae, Sean and a few of the others were jumping off the dock. Not to mention that we got to eat Nonnies burgers probably the only hamburgers that I really like to eat.

This is right before Mae got in the lake for the first time. She looks kinda confused.

Feet in first. Oh man she loved it. She is also practicing her high knees.
Still doing her plyos in the water.
Got Crack?

I forgot her little swimmers (diapers) so we just took her diaper off. And her swimsuit bottoms did not fit, but it made for some great pictures.
Finally she got to get in the water. and had so much fun splashing around. She couldn't stay in too long because even though the water was warm enough her little body got cold fast.

Horses and Bikes

On Fathers day we headed out to Seans Parents house to hang with the fam. Everyone was in town so it was a lot of fun.

In the first hour that we were out at the house Mae had a couple of firsts. JF had gotten out of his coral and went galloping down the road. So the boys took off to get him back and when they did. Well technically Brook was the one who walked him back. Geoff took Mae to meet him. She was not afraid at all, reached right out and touched his nose.

After the horse excitement, we got out the bikes. My bike is out at their house until Seans gets in so we can make only one trip to get them. Since gas is so much we are trying to not make to many unnecessary trips anywhere. Geoff and Danelle brought Maes baby seat over since they were so awesome and picked it up for us. We got it all figured out and Geoff took Mae on her first ride around the driveway (since there was no helmet we didn't go far). She loved it. So now Sean and I are impatiently waiting for his bike to get in so we can go on family bike rides.

And in case you were wondering Geoff is more then just a goatee, he does have eyes and a top of a head.