MID-September 2011

Lake Tahoe in September---HOTTTTTTTTT!  My dad stayed the night in Tahoe so my mom, the kids, and I rode up for the day for a quick day at the lake!  I needed that----I haven't been up there all year (rare)

Big Surprise---I know, I know I won tickets again to Alan Jackson this time.  My poor hardworking husband could not get work off this time so I took the BFF - Karen! My dad had tickets so we met up with him and my sister Traci!

Tailgating!

Blanche's 93rd Birthday---Happy Birthday (Great) Grandma Palmer!!!

A day in Robbins 

The future Palmer's

Sibilings---who would ever want an only child....I love their love!

Best Dollar Tree Toy Yet-

FOLSOM LAKE with the rents' on the boat

Then there was the ride on the Yacht around the bay!  My brother's -wife's- dad (Peter) races sailboats and it was the final race of the Rolex Big Boat Series on San Francisco Bay, so his wife (Pat) rented a yacht for us to ride along and cheer him on for his 70th birthday!!  What an amazing experience!  The kids had a blast! We met our newest member of the family baby Drew!!!  My parents had 10 grandchildren on one yacht, incredible!

Introducing Drew Hubble Parrinello my baby nephew----I love him so much!

Patiently waiting to board the yacht!!

The dad and the brother~

3 generations

Proud new grandparents with grandchild #12 of the dirty dozen!

My man enjoying a day off YEAH!

COUSINS

The only 2 grand baby girls on the yacht

Alcatraz

Nana & her girls

Nana & her twin- Taylor

My little man whom turns 5 next month wahhhhhhh

So proud of my "yacht" hat I made!

Lil & Big - My big brother looking oh so thrilled for another photo opt

Again proud of my hat!

Oldest grandchild / niece with youngest grandson / nephew

Me and seester getting our chat on

The rents'

My sister and her big beautiful family

Trying to get 10 grandchildren to cooperate for this photo op---HARD

Peter's boat

Mike owning the place:)

An absolute perfect day from start to finish!

Now we are getting ready for another camping experience that we haven't done before---BIG SUR!

HERE WE COME BIG SUR

We will be going here for sure!! McWay Falls!

And to leave you all with a smile~~~ I was busy making lasagna for dinner and Nathan was suppose to be "watching" a show...he came out and got a hold of daddy's hair clippers---there is always a bright side, at least it wasn't my little Goldilocks!  Poor guy looks like he is having issues with major hair loss-

August 2011

Happy Birthday to my soulmate~~~~

We went to Bodega Bay for Mike's birthday.  Mike and I have been to Bodega Bay together back when I was preggers with Nathan, but we stayed in a house on the golf course.  This was our first time camping there with our trailer and picked out where to go all via "Google Maps!"  I ended up being very satisfied with everything!!!  We will definitely be going back! Doran's Beach is almost like a peninsula...it's nice!  There is a awesome safe beach walking distance to all the campers and then the other side is a calm into the harbor.

Walking out to see our "private" beach

We stayed in site #70 which in my opinion was the best b/c you could walk to the calm beach to play and we also had our private access to the water that leads into the harbor, which had a plethora of starfish, crabs, etc. etc. The only down fall, maybe, is that it's sand camping.  Sand is everywhere...something I had to get used to.  The sand sure does entertain the kiddos, so I'll take it! David, Michelle, and Preston joined us which was awesome.  I loved seeing Mike and David together and the cousins playing!!!!  Preston did very well he just loved the kids!xo

This was by far the best part of our campsite...their own private sand hill!!

Preston loved being in the trailer...he is wearing Taylor's sun hat!

Behind our campsite - the harbor where all the fun sea creatures were discovered

Poor Uncle David, all he wanted to do was build a sand castle....

My kids made it difficult, they were being destructive.

The kids loved all of the time they got to spend with their Uncle....they already miss him:(

And what is messier than sand----MARSHMALLOWS

The photo's don't seem to be clear because when the sun goes down the dew rolls in

Mike and I decided to drive to another beach for the day---WHY on earth did we do that?  Everyone pays to get into Dora's Beach just for the day and now we know why. Okay, so before we left it was "Shark Week" on TV...and no joke....one of Northern California's beaches that has highest shark attacks is 2 miles from Doran. It is called Salmon Creek...we drove by it...it was too busy to stop so I took a picture anyway---

Then we went to another beach, unloaded everything...walked down the hill to find this sign---

Just like inexperienced parents we trekked right on down there to check it out for ourselves----yeah pretty seriously scary...we let them play on some rocks, run away from a few waves, and then headed back to "our" beach.  We kept saying we have no clue why we left the best beach in the first place, but now we know;)

Papa bear watches on

All in all - another great camping memory for the Palmer Clan!

I won tickets to Kid Rock & Cheryl Crow---another free date night!!!

Nate started his first day of preschool and I let him pick out his outfit!  So cute!

Happy Birthday to my big sis Traci we went to Folsom, Chicago Fire!!!

NANA!