Categories: Favorites | June 4th, 2008 | by admin | no comments
Surely all God’s people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them. - John Muir
Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. - J.M.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike. - J. M.
Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. This one noble park is big enough and rich enough for a whole life of study and aesthetic enjoyment. It is good for everybody, no matter how benumbed with care, encrusted with a mail of business habits like a tree with bark. None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree. - J.M.
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Categories: Favorites | September 10th, 2007 | by admin | no comments
We’re so grateful to the Lord for creating Yosemite and for giving us a whole week off to enjoy it with family & friends and most of all Danny & Carly. One of the best weeks of our lives.
The weather was perfect, highs in the 90s so we could enjoy swimming in the pools & rivers during the day and then it would go down to the 50s - cool enough for campfires at night. Last year we stayed in the heated tent cabins in Curry Village but this year we camped out in Upper Pines Campground with no electricity, no internet or cell phone reception but much more open space to hang out together. Carly & I even saw a bear & her cub which only furthered her “mommy/baby” craze.
Tom conquered Half Dome, along with Justin & Angie. Paula managed to create a outdoor theater for the kids by using an extension cord to the only electrical socket in the whole campground - in the restroom. Phil learned more history and facts about the place in his first day than all of us combined. Nadia beat Tom at Settlers thus ending his 3 month dynasty and I am now the expert at making campfire espressos.
Here are Danny & Carly playing in the stream in the back of our campsite. They would wake up in the morning and run outside to play and stay outside all day. Will put up lots more pics in the Gallery.
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Categories: Favorites | May 8th, 2007 | by admin | no comments
Early Morning Presents - we let him open his presents first thing in the morning like Christmas.
I love their early morning dos & sleepy faces.
Danny got a Rescue Hero command center complete with rescue heros and their equipment!
Spiderman pinata
Strawberries & cream with gummy tarantulas - I have no idea why the cake had so many candles - that was something that Danny & Daddy worked out but he liked it! Spiders was the theme of his birthday party and if he had his way he’d wear his spider man PJs all day - every day.
He has all sorts of ideas about turning three…
“Did you know the three year olds are so big they don’t take naps anymore?”
“Now that I’m three I need 3 gummy vitamins instead of just 2.”
“Now that I’m 3 I’m not cold any more so I don’t need to wear a jacket anymore because I won’t get sick any more.”
“Now that I’m 3 I need Carly’s peanuts becaues she’s so little and I’m so big.”
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Categories: Favorites | June 18th, 2006 | by admin | no comments
We went to the County Fair today. Danny watched the rodeo, ate corn dogs and candied apples, played on hay bales and napped in a wagon. But his favorite part of the fair was the animals. He loved these adorable little curly haired goats and spent a long time feeding and petting them.
They also had a neat exhibit where kids could pet stingrays and horseshoe crabs. Check out all the pics from today in the Gallery.
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