August 10-16 Lauren, Gracie and I went to camp with the Flipside. It was a space theme so my name was Starri and we were the Shooting Stars. I only had 4 campers, Lunar Lauren, Grace from Space, Devo Devon, and Reading Star aka Maddie. Jennifer aka Jupiter J had the other 4 third graders, so we did everything togeather. It was a lot of fun and the girls can't wait to go again. That is a picture of our teepee, and yes it doesn't close. We were lucky and didn't have any visitors, but my sister,s teepee woke up the first morning and found a hamster. Yes, that is right a hamster. They named it Mr. Nibbles and it now lives with Devon. It was great and I highly recomend sending your kids!

For those of you who don't know July 18th was our ten year anniversary. We went to New York to renew our vows in Central Park. Kyle and I went to New York a year and a half ago, and we loved it. We invited our family and friends to come with us and make it a big celebration. Paul did the ceremony and it was really sweet. It was a great trip, we got to do things we didn't do the first time. Like go to a Yankee game, and walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. The minute we stepped on it starting pouring, and the minute we stepped off it stopped. The first picture is of all the girls, the next is
Central Park, then the Yankee game. The Angels won! And finally Kyle and I on the Brooklyn Bridge.

So one of the great things about our campground was it was small and flat. So the girls rode their bikes all day. Merrick taught Lauren how to skid, so they were racing everywhere. Gracie learned how to ride without training wheels. If you look at the picture, you can see she's crying. Even though she didn't fall one time, she is terrified to ride. Isabel on the other hand cannot do it by herself at all, but is constantly asking you to let go. Maybe next summer Izzy.

So what have we been doing all summer? Well we started out slow, first wacky week of fun. Then the girls had 3 weeks of swim lesson. After that our slow summer really took off. At the end of July, we rented a trailer and went camping with the Verlangieri's and the Barragans. We went to King's Canyon and Seqouia National Parks.
The girls had a blast. We went into a cave, saw the biggest living thing on earth, the General Sherman tree. And just relaxed and had fun. Our campsite was right next to a river, that was perfect for the kids to play in. They also had lots of fun with Bryawna, although I think by the end of the week see was glad to get away from all the attention. It was really fun, and we had a great time.