Memorial Weekend

We decided at the last minute to go camping with some friends for the long weekend. There weren't many options at the last minute so we ended up going to Grant Ranch in San Jose. My friend Jennie and I headed down on Friday morning with the kids and the husbands were going to meet up with us in the evening. Things came up and our friends were only able to spend the day with us.

We rode bikes, and took a trip up to Lick Observatory and look at the telescope (the second largest of its kind in the world). Rick met up with us in the evening and we enjoyed a family campfire with some marshmallows and smores.


Playing in the parking lot and riding bikes.





The Lick Observatory, seeing this big telescope.

 The boys favorite part of camping, the marshmallows and smores.

This was Sutton's first camp trip and she did pretty good. We all got up pretty early in the morning and Rick and the boys started the pancakes and sausage. We took a hike around the lake and then packed up camp. We were planning to stay until Monday but then at the last minute decided to stay one night so we could go to the beach and then get some stuff at home done.




 The boys second favorite part of camping, climbing trees.

 Helping papa make some pancakes and sausage.

 Bikes around camp.

 Starting our hike around the lake.

We headed to Santa Cruz for the day. If we are in town over Memorial weekend this is where we always go. We stopped by the Rip Curl sale and Rick got a new wetsuit and I got a new bag. We headed over to Steamers Lane for the surf competition. The boys enjoyed watching the surfers. We played on the beach and of course ended our day at Marianne's for some ice cream.

Watching the surfer competition at Steamers.

 
My sweet little button who finally got her first few teeth in.

Marianne's our family favorite. Crew ate the bottom of the cone first.

We spent some time in the morning around the house getting a few things done here and there and then met up with our friends from the 9th ward for a BBQ here in Lafayette. It was fun to see all of our friends. It was a nice fun weekend!