Thursday, June 25, 2009

First Vacation As a Family of SIX!!

Well, we did it, our first vacation with six and possibly the first vacation ever for our new babies...My grandparents have a houseboat on Lake Shasta and it's been the family tradition for at least my 31 years to go every summer...What beauty the Lord has given us to enjoy and to glorify Himself...I'm always reminded of how big God is and how little I am when I go somewhere like this...We came back feeling really refreshed and wishing we had a couple more days!! Lots of pics and sad we still can't post any of our new babies (well I did get a couple in there but you can't see their face), but I will try and email those seperatly...



"snuggling with nanny"




Some "rock" time with my hubby hee hee




Throwing rocks in the water with Dad...




No matter how cold this girl got, you couldn't keep her out of the water!



"Happy Father's Day!"




Cookin' breakfast




You don't need a liscence to drive a boat :)




Awe...




The boys found some charocoal and made some good use of it!



"Off to go CATCH dinner"



My husband thought he'd snap a "patience testing" moment with our little man...You can't see, but he's whining after I put him down so I could get my morning coffee :)



"This is the way we wash our shoes, wash our shoes, wash our shoes....."



What better fun than to use Papa as artwork sticker fun!

7 comments:

The Pichura Family said...

Awww...it looks like so much fun! And I LOVED the picture of your dad with all the stickers on him!!! I am rejoicing with you that you can look back on your trip with GREAT memories!!!

Randall said...

It looks like you guys had a blast! I love the art project on Papa haha. What a great Grandpa!!

Matt5verse6 said...

It looks like great fun was had by all!!! I have have to echo the other comments and say my favorite picture was the one with your dad as a human art project. Too cute!!! My second favorite was the one with Kawika and the children throwing rocks in the water! Beautiful! What a blessing of a wonderful vacation! Praise God!!!

Alisha Bowers said...

I THINK ITS TIME FOR GRAM AND GRAMPS TO GET A BIGGER BOAT! DO YOU AGREE!

crystal said...

I enjoyed being up on the boat with all of us and especially with the new babys!I cant wait to see you guys tomarrow for some more fun:)

Reflections of Humility said...

It looks like you guys had such a fun time. I love the stickers on Papa. And I'm sure the little ones where in aw most of the time. Did you also sleep on the boat? It is a house boat, but that's lots of people and kids on a boat. I'm sure you where glad to be home in your own bed after a while. What creative memories after 31 years!!Wow!!

Laurel said...

What fun! We drove past Lake Shasta last week and all my young ones thought it would be very fun to go on a houseboat there.

Our older 3 did a Lake Shasta Houseboat trip about 8 years ago ... and LOVED it.

blessings,

Laurel :)