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Tahoe Camping Trip

We needed a little getaway, after so much stress of picking a job, house selling, and Mason traveling. We love to camp in Tahoe.

Mason's mother joined us.

The campsite had lots trails to hike.

We went to a nearby beach. Her is our cute little baby in the sand.

Grandma was a HUGE help.

We love to raft down the Truckee River. It is always a highlight of our Tahoe camping. It takes about 3 to 4 hrs to raft. The fun part is stopping to swim and eat PB&J sandwiches. The river is shallow and calm so we can hop out of the raft and swim.

This is our big rock that we love to jump from.

Cooking camp food is the best! Here we tried pizza- dutch oven style over the campfire. It was hands down the best pizza we all had ever ate!

In the evening we popped corn and played scrabble. It was a fun camping trip. Bears visit the campsite often, but we never saw any. I was a little disappointed.

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Clover and the Crib

Life has taken a turn for the worst today. Clover 21 months. CLICK TO WATCH VIDEO

What's New?

I thought I would just give a update on what's going on with us Coltrin clan. Mason has started work in San Diego. The house is having good showings but no bites yet. We will lower the price in a few weeks, and we hope then we can get it sold. SHELBY LAURA: Well Shelby has been very busy this summer. She has done Allstars softball this summer. Her team was great! They took second place in their last 2 tournaments. We are so happy Shelby has found such a love for the game. We are so proud of her. She starts 8th grade in 2 weeks. In CA she will enter high school next year! She just got back from Oakcrest Girls camp (LDS camp for 13 and 14 yr old girls). The camp was a week long. It is a very spiritual experience I hear.

CONNOR LOGAN: Connor's summer has been a short one. He attends year round school. But he was able to go to BYU soccer day camp. He is in 4th grade. His new teacher is a former principal 4 times and has a PHD. Connor has a birthday in few weeks and will be turning 10.

CLOVER ANN: Clover will be turning 2 in abt 3 months! She can pretty much say anything now. The cutest things she says in "cool", when she thinks something is neat. It is so funny when she started to say "hey" when someone does something she is annoyed at. She is starting to show signs of being interested in the potty. We have found her many times sitting on the toilet. I should maybe get a potty chair or something for her. Another thing new for Clover is when we turn into our neighborhood she will say "home!". She loves to go to Grandma's house. When we pull up to grandma's house she will yell "Ama, Ama, Ama" (leaving off the GR and saying the other half".

Well our family is getting ready for a week of camping in Lake Tahoe. We look forward to camping all year. It is our favorite family thing to do. Grandma Coltrin will be joining us again this year. This year camping is going to fall on our 17th year anniversary. SEVENTEEN YEARS!!!!!! I can't even believe 17 yrs. Our first night "camping" will be spent in Reno at a Residents Inn. Mason and I plan on going out to eat for our anniversary that night, so we will still be able to go on a date.

Does This Make My Butt Look Big?

I found Clover's Halloween costume yesterday at DI, for 3 bucks. It is this darling cow suit. Last year I found her skunk costume at a yardsale for the same price. I also bought it in the middle of summer. Noone is wanting to buy Halloween stuff in middle of summer, but I do. I know when Halloween comes around they are snatched up and I have to end up spending big money. So I put it on her, and she really threw a hit to keep it on. We all laughed so hard at her huge cow butt! You should see her walk in it, it is hilarious!

CLOVER THE COW!

SAY MOO CLOVER!

Eye Surgery

Do you remember a few weeks ago that my eye went swollen for days? An oil duct in the eyelid got blocked. It got infected. I used some drops I had, and it worked on the infection. When the infection died down I was left with a lump IN my eyelid. It just got bigger. BTW...it was good I took those drops, the dr. said he would have prescribed those to me. So I had a Chalazion. I had to get it drained. They gave me Valium when I went in. I put my little hat and booties on. I went into the surgery room. They numbed my lid, flipped the lid inside out, made a cut under the lid, and cleaned it out. When I was done it HURT SO BAD!!!!! I couldn't drive home, my dad had to take me. As we drove home blood kept dripping down my face. It was an ordeal I hope to never do again.

Life Is Sweet

Life is sweet...I am loving the "not working" thing. Today we went to the mall and put Clover on the carousel and had lunch.

Then we went to the Olympic Oval to swim.

This is the giant bucket that dumps water every 5 minutes.

Shelby is in the green.

It is a fun place with slides, pools, olympic high dives, and tons of fun kid stuff.

Clover hated the waterslide.
Yes, life is sweet! We had lots of summer fun today!

Summer Lunch At Grandma's

Yesterday we had a fun time at Grandma's house. In the summer my mom has time off from work. My mom invited me and my 3 sisters over with all the kids for lunch and water time in the backyard. My sister Camilla took these shots. We had a good time. It is nice to get together and have all the little girl cousins play.

One More Down

Today was our ward chili cook-off summer party. As you know I am in charge of all ward activities. This activity was a HUGE SUCCESS! The weather was beautiful, the food was plentiful, and a really great turn out! We had lots of super fun games.

We also had water balloon toss.

Water fights broke out.

This was a super fun game- like musical chairs. The music starts and everyone is in a huge circle holding hands. Everyone must walk through the hoops...when the music stops the one with the hoop is out.

3 legged race.

Finding Grandpa's Grave

After we dropped off Connor at BYU for soccer camp, my mother in law and I had the morning to kill. So we decided to find the cemetery that her Pehrson family is buried. We had no idea where it was so we drove around until we found it. Then we had no idea where the grave to her parents were. So we walked for about 45 minutes searching. Finally we found it, we were going to give up and leave. Clover resting from all her searching (Brown- no relation)

Here it is !!!! FINALLY

Grandma Coltrin

poor baby Ethel

Clover with her Great Grandparent's grave.