The Best of the Rest: Summer 2013

We sure did have a lot of fun during our summer trip back to California in 2013!  

 Free Babysitting at the Alta Sierra Pool!

 Lucas nailed his jump into the middle of the tube!

 Happy Birthday Lucas!

 No summer would be complete without a trip to the South Yuba River!

 Eli aiming for the center of the innertube

 Grandma Bennett doing her best to imitate the grandkids!

Ice cream on a hot summer day.  Help!

OUR TRIP WITH THE LOWE'S TO SANTA CRUZ!

 Super Cute Crist Gals

 Help we're stranded!

Unfortunately Bryce temporarily lost that finger 

 The last summer our boys were truly boys ; (

Little Miss Sunshine

 The crew and one weirdo minus photographer

 Stork poo can be runny apparently

 Uh were you supposed to be getting wet?!?

This kid is loving a CLEAN beach. 

Farmers blow; just like her daddy taught her. 

MISCELLANEOUS

 Abram and Tyson Doberneck, at the party the Gumm's threw for us. 

 At the Sacramenton zoo with cousins

Campfire and marshmallow fun in the backyard

 Walks with Grandma and rides on Big Red with Grandpa

Isaiah calling in the troops!

Lake Tahoe Camping!

2nd Annual Lake Tahoe Trip Photos

The Camping crew headed for a hike overlooking Emerald Bay

Beauty x 2

Above Emerald Bay

This is awesome!

Thanks for the lift Abram!

Happy to be at the beach!

Beach babes

Maddi Campau in water 1 degree above freezing

Hike to balancing rock at Bliss State Park - ladies checking their cell phone coverage

Madison getting her squeeze on

From another view  - Brielle?

The start of our Truckee River raft trip

Before Karen Gumm flipped out of her boat trying to splash me.

Tent fun!

Something/one is going to get whacked!

Girls who like camping?

Where am I mom?

This is what we hiked and hour to see; what kind of lighthouse is this?

Lighthouse views

Lighthouse hike with baby baggage

Abram's Graduation

The very first order of business after the whole family traveled from Ghana to Grass Valley was the attendance of Abram's graduation ceremony on June 7th.  This was a surreal experience for his dad who remembers taking this kid to kindergarten in the bike trailer just months ago.

Abram surprised the whole family when he got up on stage with the choir and starting singing a solo part - I myself was playing in the grass with Bryce and Isaiah and without seeing the stage or knowing Abram was singing thought to myself, "wow that sounds really good", only later to find out it was Abram who was singing. Unfortunately due to the lack of notice we do not have any video footage of the event...but our neice Rebecca Lowe did just happen to record the audio (thanks Beck boo!)....if I could ever figure out how to add audio to this page.  Amazing, I think I did it?!

Download Music - Download Audio - Abram Home

The whole crew!  I think it was too hot for G'pa Bennett??

Abram and sister displaying his candy lei's and his cool two-piece outfit he had made in Ghana.