Labor Day Weekend

Myrah's first Camping Trip

Anastyn loves Myrah's Bellybutton

So on Friday we decided to head up to East Park Reservoir to join my sister Pam and her family camping that same night. We arrived around 2 a.m. and it was still really hot out. Even worse was when we woke up in our tent at 7 a.m. and it felt like 100 degrees already. Just about the time Andrew and I started to conspire to go home, I decided to join Andi by taking a dip in the water. Everything changed! Since there were no trees, the water was a life safer! I convinced Andrew to jump in, too, and we both were in better moods!

Anastyn plays in the water with Jon and Auntie Pam

When Anastyn woke up, I got her up and dressed her to go out and play for a while. She ran out of the tent and the very first thing she wanted to do was join her cousin Jon in the lake. And so she did . . . shoes and all. It was endearing. =) She spent most the day in the lake or being fed by someone. Or in the lake AND being fed by someone (ice cream).

Carly gave Andi a ice cream M&M

Both girls did great. Neighbors (including Pam's family) didn't hear either of them. I've got two great sleepers! Myrah spent most the day in the shade being held. Daddy liked his turn to hold her, 'cause that meant he got to catch up on his reading!

Myrah sleeps on Mommy/
Carly feeds Andi in the background

We only stayed the one night because it really was too hot during the day. I was a little concerned about Myrah since she couldn't jump in the lake when she got uncomfortable. That, and I think she got some sun from the reflections off the water. That night, however, after we'd already packed to leave, it cooled down and was faring rather nicely. At that point, of course, we were wishing we could stay. . . but being packed up already, we headed home and started reading The Shack for our drive.

Dinner with Grandpa

Sunday was a day of cleaning and resting. And when we sobered up to the fact that we were no longer camping we called up Grandpa Matt to hang out. We picked him up (not before we stopped to feed my new fix - jarred Starbucks frapps) and headed to San Ramon for some famous deep dish pizza. The pizza was interesting: good, but interesting. The sauce was on top! Andi loved the chunky tomatoes.

Felton (Santa Cruz) with Nana & Papa

Monday Morning we were ready to head to the mountains and be amongst the redwoods. That was the idea behind going camping, but as you saw from the pictures we were far from redwoods. =)

We went to the day use area in Felton and headed for the train first. While we were waiting for it to come through we tried on hats in the gift shop and played with a bunch of old school toys. Then we walked around outside for a bit and Papa snuck Andi some of his soda.

After waving to the train we headed down to the water hole where Nana took Andi to play in the water with buckets and shovels. Myrah mostly napped on Daddy while he read more of The Shack to me. It was pretty crowded but we had a good time.

Next we headed to the pier, where Andrew took Andi down to see the sea lions (we called them seals). Anastyn absolutely loved them! For the rest of the evening she was clapping her hands together and making (her version of) seal noises. I'm not sure who had more fun with them though, Andrew or Anastyn. Both of them seemed to be taken. It was especially cool to see three little babies, with the mama actively keeping other sea lions away from them.

We ate outside on the pier and enjoyed the sun setting. When Anastyn wasn't tied down in her high chair she had fun chasing the seagulls and trying to feed them.

It was a good weekend.