a girls adventure.

monday the 26th was a busy one. my morning was full and away from the girls. when i got home kg was feeding them soup for lunch. river is very passionate about her soup! :)
in the afternoon the girls and i took an adventure while kg slept. no summer adventure can start without a shaved ice or diishe, as river calls them!



then we stumbled upon this park we've never seen before. all the toys are somewhat suspended. it was cool.


river is always more attracted by the random dog in park than the toys.
flower was a pro climber.
then we mozied on over to kathryn albertson park.

's' is for silly sassy sisters

we wandered for over an hour and i just followed them around letting them lead the way.



sometimes river would just lie down in the path and relax.



river loves flower's hair. unfortunately for flower sometimes she loves it too much and frequently pulls out big hands full of it. :( but not this time. she was very sweet just playing with it.
i love how she hugs flower.
flower was trying to get river to copy her poses and it totally cracks me up.



and then i ran away from them and they had to chase me and laughed the whole way.

i love lily pads. we kept hoping we'd see a frog atop one but no such luck. as we stood there for a good 15 minutes looking at all of them they became a reflection of how i feel right now.

they are looking a little crowded. this is how my brain feels lately.
overstuffed and crowded with crap that i'm not sure how to sort out.

if i could just get a few areas to clear out i could get some peace.

and sometimes my heart and brain disagree.

my heart loves to be around people and enjoy their company
but the brain turns it into anxiety with everything overlapping.

but they both agree on the happiness and peace of being a loner.
shutting everyone out feels like a good idea right now.
but it's probably not. actually it's usually the worst thing i can do.
but i'll probably do it anyway.
i'm jealous of this lily pad.

these remind me of my childhood.

now back to the girls. they explored to their hearts content and it brought me joy.


and then they ran away from me and i had to chase them.
she was eating the flowers.
and then we became too hot and hungry.

so we stopped by the corner store for an ice cream cone.

and then waited for our gluten free pizza at pier 49. yum.

we took it home and kg joined us for dinner. perfect afternoon/evening with my girls!

EQ camp out

friday the 23rd lead us up to the cabin for an eq campout. i wish a few more families had been able to attend but we enjoyed those that were there! there was a big potluck dinner and camp fire that evening. we missed most of that. poor kg had truck trouble. it kept breaking down on him when he took the group up earlier in the day. therefore he got back to boise late to pick me up. he was driving lisa's car. we stayed for his grandma's party for a bit and then headed up. we were supposed to take the bus and that crapped out too. so we ended up taking lisa's car back and tented it.
saturday morning kg made an excellent breakfast with lisa's help. ;)
i discovered the day that my camera was crapping out. it started giving me an error after every photo so a lot of the photos are funky. i'm pretty depressed about it.



river makes me smile. she just wandered and played and totally enjoyed herself! when i was trying to spy her in her own little world with my camera, she caught me and said cheese!


there is she again. playing in the dirt.



some people went shooting. some played in the water. some played with snakes. some played games. we all enjoyed ourselves.



river's yucky dirty camping feet.
we love alanna.
laura was in time out. study study study.
mmm, cold hot dogs.

kg took flower fishing for the first time. she has been begging to go and she loved it. although she was bummed that she didn't catch a fish.





finally at 2:00 we all packed up and headed for idaho city for lunch and milk shakes.



the allure of the juke box.

best bathroom sign i have ever seen! in case you can't read it:
Our aim is to keep this bathroom clean.
gentlemen: your aim will help. stand closer, it's shorter than you think!
ladies: please remain seated for the entire performance!
ha! awesome. totally love it.
full of fries, tater tots and milk shakes we were finally on the road for home after a successful camping trip with friends.