Memorial Day Weekeend 2008

This weekend we went up to Scott's parents cabin along with 4 of Scott's brothers and sisters and their families. The first night we got there Claire was super smiley and kept doing this funny thing with her tongue where she stuck it out really far and it was super pointy and she curled it up like she was trying to touch her nose. It was hard to catch it on camera but it was making us laugh for a long time!

It was raining all night when we got there Friday and then some on Saturday morning and was pretty chilly. On Sunday we packed a lunch and were planning on going to the top of the mountain to the watch tower, but the snow melt and the rain caused the roads to be exteremely muddy and they closed the road just as we got about half way. Yep, I said snow! Snow at the end of May-crazy!!! On our way down we stopped to play in the snow, but we were rushed out by the forest ranger so she could close the road.Claire played with her cousin Abby who is 13 days older than her. They both wanted the same toys and it was fun to see them play.Monday we took a walk along a sidewalk that a developer in the area has made. It was a pretty walk along the creeks. This was one of the pretty spots along the way.
Of course there was lots of eating, four wheeling, napping and Wii playing. A funny thing happened on the way home. Scott was playing one of his car games with the girls where they had to guess what animal Scott was describing. Scott said "This is a really big white animal that lives in Antarctica", to which I said "I do not think that anything lives in Antarctica" and then Macey chimed in and said "the only thing that lives in Antarctica is penguins and scientists". I thought it was so funny, like "scinentists" are a species. That one kept me laughing for a while. They have been studying this kind of stuff in school so she had heard that somewhere. FYI-I double checked myself last night and and there are some things that live there-a wingless fly, plankton and other small sea life and small amounts of plant life, and then several months out of the year there are scientists that live there and study the life there so, Macey was right about the scientist part. It was a nice weekend away from the hustle and bustle of city life. We look forward to spending some more time up there this summer since we are not really going on any vacations.

We finished the weekend off with some home made ice cream at the Scott's for Kayla and Noah's birthdays.