Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Summer of 2012

Enjoying the tide pools in Solana Beach

 All the kids loved finding the crabs

Traced loved getting wet and dirty, what a cute beach baby

Tiny crab for Cooper

All the Tracy Blake clan, including the newly married Chrissy Lowe and Lowe family. We are a big good looking group!


We took a free shuttle to the del mar fair, we were the only people on the fancy bus.  The kids loved sitting wherever they wanted.


Some kiddos in the live stock farm

The bumblebee transformers car was there so of course the boys needed a picture

 We loved our beach days!


 Our friends the Johnsons invited us to Saguaro Lake with them to go boating, good times!


Calvin and their son Parker. 


Took the kids to Jambo park just a mile down the road from us, trace loves crawling around places with video games for him to play and touch.

So I walked over to find lexi playing this game and her needing only to just lean over and to dunk the ball in the basket to get a perfect score, it was obviously not designed for someone her height.  All those tickets just got one little plastic bracelet I am sure.


I love this action picture of lexi enjoying the ride and Cooper, Emma and Amber a little nervous! Speaking of Emma we got to trade her for Calvin that day.  The cousins loved trading houses during the summer. 

All the kids on the bumber cars..

We also got to take a last minute trip to Vegas and Utah at the end of summer. Here the kids are after eating at a casino buffet. 

And of course we had to walk the strip. 

And go to the huge M&M store, very cute 3D movie even Trace enjoyed.

Lexi loved seeing the 3 story H&M store and walking around.

While in Utah we visited the St. George temple.

Calvin took this happy picture of trace in the temple grass

We took a night hike on a red clay mountain that over looks St. George.  The kids loved finding the little caves.

And we ended at Zion national park.

We took the easier hikes that had paved trails for a stroller.  Trace had an easy ride sitting back with a bottle being pushed up the mountains, lucky him!

Here the mist was streaming off the mountain side, so refreshing.



I love this picture of lexi laughing naturally!
Even though Amber is closing her eyes everyone has great smiles.  




2 comments:

cherryl said...

YEAH! You're blogging again! I haven't been very good at updating mine recently. Looks like you guys had a great summer. Lexi looks so grown up in all the pictures.

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