Maya's Birthday!

 For Maya's 11th Birthday this year, we took her paddle boarding at Silver Lake!  It was SUPER fun!  The kids were absolute champs at paddle boarding on their own!  Levi paddled Abby all the way from one end of the lake to the other!  It was super fun and super impressive!  

Maya had a great birthday, and we had a lot of fun celebrating her!

Maya insisted on changing who she was riding with the whole day!  

She also was jumping from the back to the front of the paddle board like crazy!  haha!  She was excited!

Owen and I raced Abby and Levi across the lake!

Of course the adventurers had to get out and climb some rocks!

Racing to the other side!

We were a good team!

But this was a good team too!!

And this girl napped in the kayak with Joey half the time!

Our lunch spot on an island in the middle of the lake

YUM!

The ragamuffin

Our picnic lunch tasted SO good!

Approaching the island where we will have lunch!  The kids beat us to it!

This is the first time Owen and Levi were each on their own!  SO fun!

We got the girls at the beginning which was pretty fun too!

Love this adventure boy!

And this one who loves his Maya girl!  He cuddles with Maya every morning when he wakes up.

Always such a ragamuffin!  Just love her!

Happy Birthday adventure for our old girl!

Let's go!

Father's Day Weekend

 It wouldn't be Father's Day without a lot of food and lots of time at the river!  We made Joey lots of his favorite foods on Father's Day and enjoyed our river the whole weekend!

Prepping for breakfast!

Eggs Benedict!

Eggs Benedict and kitten cuddles.  

Look at that breakfast!

We worked hard on this one!  And it was good!

Prepping the homemade ice cream!

Dinner!

It wouldn't be Father's Day without bacon!

The kids set the table and were so proud!

Churning the homemade ice cream!

Maya and Mango love!

Owen trying to tear Liv away from churning the ice cream...good luck!

Once she started churning she HAD TO BE THE ONE CHURNING!

Thankfully Abby is the sweetest sister!

It's ok Liv, you can do it!

Sundaes!

Now river time!

We love being right on the river!!

The kids are definitely living their best life!

Abby swimming!

We decided to let the ducks free range in the River.  They love water way to much to be cooped up!

There they go!

Jasper and Splash!

And then Maya chasing them!

They are actually surviving out there!!

Levi's Birthday!

Our little man turned seven today!!  We have had a daily countdown since Owen's birthday--so the last three months we have have been patiently waiting for this day--and here it finally is!!

We started the day watching his video compiled by his friends and family.  He totally loved it!  It was our first "corona" birthday and it was super fun to connect with family and friends through the video!

After the video we had a Levi breakfast of waffles and whipped cream.  Then after Joey left, the kids broke me down and we opened ALL of Levi's presents.  After waiting 90+ days for this day we just couldn't wait anymore.  And he got outdoor gifts so it was fun to open them!  We did a water baloon fight, squirt gun fight, played on the slackline and played his new frisbie game.  Owen made Levi's birthday cake!  He made it from start to finish as one of Levi's presents.  Ever since his own birthday he is quite the master of the Red Velvet Cake!  :)  He worked really hard on Levi's and it turned out awesome!  He frosted it and added crumbs as a decoration.  We also made two other cakes and cupcakes for good measure.  Such a fun day--even if it was a "rona-birthday"!  

Turning 7!!

Playing on the new slackline!

Levi's birthday junk food!!

Watching his birthday video which I posted below!