Another epic sandcastle

Geoff and the boys are becoming experts at making sandcastles!!!

Vacation Bible School

The boys spent a week going to Vacation Bible School.  It was a western theme (if you couldn't tell!)

Petroglyph Painters

The boys painted new San Francisco Giants plates.  Grandma stopped by to visit while we were there.

Last Disneyland trip with our passes!

We wanted to go to Disneyland one last time before our passes expired.  Boy, did we get some good use out of these passes!

 Cole finally got to go on California Screamin' and loved it!

 Our first time eating at the famous Blue Bayou next to Pirates of the Caribbean.

 This is the train that was in the movie the Lone Ranger.

Goodbye to the Howarths

Our dear friends, the Howarths, decided to move to North Carolina!  We had one last BBQ to wish them well. They drove cross country the whole summer and had some awesome adventures.  Here are Geoff, Lee, Pete, and Ted via Skype!  Gotta love technology!

Half Dome 2013

We went to Yosemite with some friends.  It was the boys' first time there. We have been training to climb Half Dome.  We started out at 5:30am!

Cole was tired at the beginning.  Geoff was carrying a heavy pack and a heavy kid!

 That's Tyler sitting on the steps.  He was in the lead the whole 16 miles!

 The first falls on the mist trail, Vernal Falls.

We did it!  The four of us went to the summit on the cables.  We got back down the mountain at 5:30pm.

On the way home the next day, we stopped at one of our favorite on the road restaurants, the Black Bear Diner.