Beyond Hope or Not

5/25/14

Awesomeness

2 hours of mountain biking with the whole family. Woohoo. We ripped it up.

5/24/14

12 years

Time flies. It is hard to believe we have been married 12 years. Sometimes it seems like just yesterday. My Grandparents have their 68th anniversary next month. Wow

5/19/14

4 children

And she is the one to stuff a rock up her nose. Yup. She did.

We were listening to Roald Dahl in the car on our way for a hike. We are waiting for some friends to be ready. Animal quietly asks, "Uh mom..... What's a faggot?" Shock. Then a quick explanation to my friend of what we were just listening to in the car. My friend, unfazed, says that it means cigarette. Ah, yes. It does - in Britain. Then I have a little chat with animal about slang and appropriate language in our neck of the woods. :)

A world record

For the largest Garter snake. LBB spied it on our walk and a fisherman just happened to walk by and offered to catch it. It was at least 3 feet long. Huge!

Camping

Camping fun. May long weekend at a nearby national park. We got rained out after one night. The firewood was too wet to light the next morning. Tea took too long to be made and consumed. We stayed warm all night in our new sleeping bags. We have a new tarp system in mind as a new waterproof tent is just not in the budget. The sun finally broke through. We still had fun.