Adventures in geocaching

Earlier this summer, Eric won this little handheld GPS unit because of this cool video. (he hadn't even realized he entered a contest until they told him he won...even cooler!)
So on Sunday afternoon we decided to give geocaching a try. We weren't going to go far for our first attempt, just right in our own backyard, so to speak, over at the city park.

We searched,

and searched,

rechecked the location,

searched some more,

and some more,

and some more. We finally gave up! Can you believe it! How hard can it be!! We looked for one other one on the trail and couldn't find that one either. LAME!!! Mia and a friend went back the next day and THANKFULLY found the one down the trail so we didn't feel like complete failures, however, the one in the park still eludes us. We'll go back and search again and let you know if we ever find it. However, if you have found it and have any clues for us, we'll take 'em!

Last hurrah

Last week we headed over the mountains to Desert Canyon for a few days.

We really did a whole lot of nothing. Perfect summer vacation, right?

The guys did a lot of this and VERY EARLY in the morning...

...so they could spend more time doing this.

we did a little of this (even watched the meteor shower from this same place the next night)

a little of this, (the boys thought it was pretty cool they got their own t.v. in their room)

a little of this,

I mean THIS!

a whole lot of this (hot tubbing AND picture taking)

and a WHOLE lotta THIS! (check out those abs, I'm a tad jealous)

and THIS,

and THIS! (Happy kids and happy picture taking mom! What more can you ask for)


oh, and THIS (buying and trading Silly Bandz with your best buddy)

and this (creative entertainment on a loooong ride home)

Thanks, friends, for taking us Condo Camping. It was GREAT fun!!

Workin' for a livin'

This was the scene over at Van's Cabinets yesterday (and actually several other days this summer). Grandpa and Grandma have employed their grandkids as a work crew to clean up the shop. Yesterdays job was to continue the scraping of the floor in the stain room.





Everyone came home dusty and sweaty and even a few sporting a few blisters.


Well, most everybody. :)  Kidding, kidding...

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