Califorina and Lake Tahoe

We spent the last 2 weeks in California (Bay Area) and Lake Tahoe. It was a lot of fun and we were on the go constantly. I tried to keep this post short, but we are always a little too camera happy and have sooo many pictures. Here's a quick recap of our trip:
This is us at Happy Hollow, it like a mini lagoon with lots of kid rides and a mini zoo. The kids loved it.
The main reason for the trip was that Christofer's brother was blessing their new baby. Here's a photo with all of Chris' family.

Next we went to a beach as Half Moon Bay, Rad got buried in the sand and had a ball. My kids could play at a beach in the sand all day.

Then we went to the Baylands to see some ducks and other birds. My cute kids are such good friends...most of the time :)

This pic is at Santa Cruz beach. We tried to get a pic with the cousins, it's impossible to get a good one with so many kids.

We took the kids to Lemos Farms and Demsey was in LOVE with the ponies, all she wanted to do was the pony rides. Radley liked the train, hayride and tractor, but his favorite thing was the bouncy house?

Ha ha, isn't his face perfect? I wouldn't want to mess with Cowboy Rad

The tide pools are always one of Radley's favorite places to go, here he is with a big star fish.

Radley is obsessed with bugs and critters, so I found him a banana slug. He loved it and held it for hours...well...we found out why no one actually plays with banana slugs, when we tried to wash the slime off his hands, it would NOT come off. We got online and everyone said that banana slug slime is impossible to get off and that water and soap only make it worse. It is so true, it was like multiplying in the water. We just had to dry his hands off and then rub them in dirt forever.

Demsey loved the Dog, at least someone in our family did :)The kids were so worn out, here they are doing some good cuddling during a nap.

This was a fun place called the Junior Museum, it had lots of fun interactive stuff for the kids and another mini zoo.

This was a place called Ano Nuevo. That's a whale vertibrate that Radley is standing on. This is a beach where tons of elephant seals come...it was also the windiest place I've ever been. Demsey didn't seem to mind the wind, she was workin it like a photo shoot.

Finally, Tahoe. I had never been here before and holy beautiful. We stayed in a cabin that over looked Emerald Bay, it was such a pretty place. We went on lots of hikes and to lots of beaches.

Radley loves to collect pinecones and there were some massive pinecones there, the one in this picture is little compared to some of the ones we found.

Eagle Falls hike.

Demsey liked sitting on the porch and enjoying the scenery with a good book. :)

And we finished off our last day of the trip with one of the best sunsets I have ever seen. Tahoe is definitely a place I want to keep going back to.

I LOVE SUMMER!