It feels like summertime is almost over...the good news is that it has barely begun.  The past few months our family has been incredibly blessed to have Brian's family in the states and living on the farm.  After two years it's been really great to be all-together-at-one-place again!  Some highlights included spending a day with their family in D.C., going to an airshow in OC, going to the beach, hanging with the kids, and just going over to the trailer in the morning for a cup of coffee with Janel.

Last week we enjoyed four days of camping together in the mountains before Brian's left to spend a month in Iowa.  I was a shutterbug, so I'll let the pics speak for themselves. 

These little guys are so cute together.  I decided not to post the naked bath pics...but here is yet another photo op.  The expressions are just priceless.

Here's a cute guy....he's got a lot of energy for such a little guy. He proved that on our mountain hikes!

We did a lot of hiking while we were camping.  This trail was three miles long.  It went down the mountain along one spring and back up beside another.  There were over twenty waterfalls.  It was absolutely beautiful!

Taking a break along the trail.

The second day we were there we hiked to an open top of the mountain.  The trail was lined with lots of ferns, mountain laurel and wild blueberries.  When we got to the top there was a huge patch of ripe blueberries....it was very "Blueberries for Sal"...I kept expecting to look up and see a bear-cub sharing the patch!

Of course after all that hiking we spent lots of time relaxing at the campsite!

   I can't complain.  It's been 70 and sunny the last couple days.  Judi and I had some rare moments where we were BOTH in the city at the same time AND we both had time off.  Yesterday we went to the science museum and saw the Body Worlds 2 display.  Shocking.  It was highly recommended as a good anatomy display by her Physical Therapy teachers....and it was.  However, I walked around with that sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that I get whenever I look at the "real" pics in the back of the Anatomy and Physiology textbooks.  Real bodies..."plastinated"...a lot of muscles, bones and organs...not too much skin...but I decided not to donate my body for plastination. 

In better news.  After we exited the science museum.  We headed out for an evening on the harbor.  And dinner at a favorite spot...outside!

And then there we were squinting into the sun. 

That's all folks.  Now it's nose to the grindstone.  Work. Work. Work.