Grandma & Grandpa Fast visit

Grandma & Grandpa Fast decided to do an end of summer "surprise" visit to see us. After visiting the bridge on Saturday I decided to take everyone on a short hike to a local swimming hole in the park that I had found a couple weeks ago. It was a total hit! We only wished we had brought our swimming trunks.


Micah had fun splashing around in the water. He was soaking wet by the time we were done.


Grandma showed Micah how to throw rocks & go pick them up. He had a little trouble when the rock would land in water that was a little deeper than his arm would reach...he was surprised when his face got wet trying to retreive the rock.


While he wasn't splashing in the water he was climbing on the rocks. I think I have a rock climber in the making :-)

Ryan's Bridge

Many of you have heard about "Ryan's Bridge," well last week Ryan's parents came down & visited. They took the liberty to snap some photos & I thought I'd share them with all of you. Traffic has been driving across the bridge for about three weeks now & they are just doing some cosmetic finishing touches.


View from top of bridge


View from northeast side of bridge. If you look closely you will see Ryan & I walking across the bridge.


This is a view from the southwest side of the bridge. Here they are working on staining the concrete form-liner rock wall.

Micah makes some mischief

So the other day we were hanging out in the trailer (because again it was too warm for us to go outside). And I discovered that Micah had snuck behind my chair and emptied his dirty clothes basket. Once he had emptied the basked, which he had done many times before, he climbed right in & began to ham it up for the camera (which he had never done before). So therefore, being a first time mommy I had to catch some cute shots. I hope you enjoy!!

Sunshine-y Day!!

Well I am happy to announce that the weather has FINALLY cooled off here. Today we had a beautiful high of 80 degrees. Although this weekend it's supposed to be in the tripple digits again. I was excited about this cool day because it allowed me to get out this morning and go do something with Micah. We decided to go over to the park...where Miach trampped around for over an hour. He spent most of his time trying to climb up the slide or chase a dog on the other side of the park.

Camping at Morro Bay

Last week Micah & I decided to join the church youth group on their annual campout at Morro Bay (central California Coast). Ryan was very disappointed that he couldn't join us but his bridge was in full swing (and I don't even think he missed us too much ;-). I was a little nervous about camping with Micah & 35 teenagers by myself. But it went well. Many of the girls were anxious to push Micah around & take him off my hands. Additionally a friend's two daughters (ages 7 & 11) were perfect to watch Micah while I ran to the bathroom.

The weather was a wonderful relief from the crazy temps in Oakhurst. I think the daily highs didn't get above 75 & the nighttime lows were in the low 60's. It was actually harder to adjust when we returned home.

I had to special order fuzzy pajamas that would fit Micah for this trip (apparently, short sleeve cotton pj's didn't quite cut it at the beach). Micah spent a majority of his time in "the cage." Which was nice because he kept wanting to run into the street.

Micah & Justus (the youth pastor's daughter) hang out in 'the cage.'

Micah still does not like the ocean wather (which was nice since I was doing this by myself) but he did like playing in the sand.

I don't know if you can see it...but this is my sandy faced boy. Apparently sunscreen & sand mix a little too well. The sand seemed attracted to Micah's face & was virtually impossible to get off.

Isabella was one of the girls who helped watch Micah a lot. The girls were always trying to put this stocking cap on him that he hated (it probably had to do with the fact that it was last year's & was a little small)

Beating the summer heatwave!

Well, it seems like everyone is trying to stay cool these days. Today I about wanted to scream. We tried to do very little because we were expecting a high of 106 here in Oakhurst. I learned some good lessons today:

• Don't trust the weather man...it is possible for it to get to 108 degress in Oakhurst (112 in Fresno)
  
• The tin can we live in does not make an air conditioner that can keep up with these tempetures
  
• It is impossible to leave the house early enough to avoid the heat
  
• Micah gets REALLY restless when you try to keep him inside all day
  
• Micah does sweat like his father & turns beat red when he's hot
  
• When it's this hot outside our kiddy pool is useless because the water is now way too hot & it grows algee way too easily
  
• The sprinkler is a wonderful tool to cool off both Micah & Mommy
  
  

So a couple days ago I pulled out the sprinkler & Micah had a BLAST!! We discovered that Mommy can sit in her chair in the sprinkler stream while Micah tries to catch the little bugger!

Micah's first trip to Disney

We ended our trip to FL with a 3 day stay at Disney World. We had an amazing time. Ryan & I had decided beforehand that we would be making this trip as relaxing as possible, especially since we have not had a vacation by ourselves in quite some time. We decided to stay at a Disney Resort Hotel (can I just say, WOW!). We spent two days poolside & naping in our room! The other day we decided to visit Disney Magic Kingdom (the only park that we haven't visited there). It was great! Micah actually enjoyed it more than I expected. He was mesmerized by all of the mechancial charactors! Here are just a few pics from our visit:


Micah waits in line to ride Pirates of the Caribian


Micah gets ready to ride Aladin's Magic Carpet Ride