Angels Camp.

The third week of July we spent in Angels Camp, CA with Brian’s family.   

Elna had tons of fun with her grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

        Sharing Grandma’s arms with her cousin Callie at Costco                                                        Helping Grandma make enchiladas with Callie & Jace

Eating spaghetti from Grandpa’s plate.  I love how she’s standing on his feet.

On one of our first days there we visited a museum and panned for gold:

Elna seemed to love it

Another day we went to a nearby lake:

Wednesday morning we played t-ball.  This was also the morning Brian got really sick.  That put a damper on his next few days.   

While Brian stayed home sick, we all went to another museum to see a big piece of gold.  I wish I remember more about it.  I spent most of my time chasing Elna around.  Having a toddler doesn’t lend very well to learning much at museums. 

I love this picture of Barbara and three of her boys.  She loves her boys so much and is such a great mom to them.

On Thursday we went to Mercer Caverns.  The adults (minus DeWin & Barbara who watched our children) took a tour of these amazing caves.  I would say this was the highlight of what we saw at Angels Camp.  The cavern is completely under ground, so we climbed down some narrow and steep stairs 160 feet (16 stories).  It was pretty cold (55 degrees), but felt so nice since it was so hot outside. 

And on Friday we spent some time in an old western town:

Grandpa sharing his licorice rope with Elna.

A Harris tradition is to take these old western photographs.  I think Elna was confused.

The Harris boys.

Waiting for our stagecoach ride.

We spent time in the pool as much as possible.  Elna loved it!

We had a great time!  I married into the best family!

Random July pictures.

We have been busy!  We just got home from an 11 day trip to CA, and a week before that we were also in CA for a Harris family vacation, but now we’re back and done with vacations and in much need of some sleep and blog catch up. 

So, I’ve been cutting Brian’s hair since we got married with no problems.  But the last time I cut it the guard fell off, and before I noticed I shaved up his head—a sad mistake— especially a month before family pictures.  We made an emergency trip to the hair salon he went to before we got married.  You can still tell in the picture on the right, but it quickly grew enough that you couldn’t tell at all.

                                                                                 before                                                                                                          after

Our little girl is very girly—some of her favorite things are putting shoes (hers or ours) on and playing with my makeup and hair things.  It’s all very cute.

Elna went through a stage where she only wanted to wear one shoe.  She would walk all around the house in just that shoe.  If I tried to put her other shoe she got very bugged.  She cracks me up.

Looking at these pictures makes me want to go on a walk right now.  With how much she loves our walks I really have no excuse not to get out and go walking.

I couldn’t pick just one of the following pictures.  I want to freeze these little expressions and never let her grow up. 

On one day in July we decided to meet Brian downtown for dinner and dessert.  We went to Veggie Grill for dinner and had some yummy vegan donuts from Voodoo Donuts. 

Elna in her stroller on the MAX ride downtown.