Random CA Vacation Activities

Emery playing the piano(tampon).

Addie & Taylor in the bounce house.

Cam, Taylor, & Bailey bouncing.

Bailey & Cam with their monkey bread masterpiece.

Emery eating dough.

Bailey & Addie making Monkey Bread.

Grandpa, Grandma, Addie, & Cam taking the dogs for a walk.

Cam and Roxy

Addie and Arrow

Bath time in Grandma's Kitchen Sink.

Bailey showing us her dance moves.

Cam looking intense on the dance pad.

Addie's smooth moves.

I decided to wrap up the rest of the trip in one post, hopefully. Well, I might have one more after this one, but that should be it.

Mark and Ceri's niece Taylor was having her 4th birthday party the day after Ceri's pinning ceremony. Mark's brother and his wife were nice and invited us to the party as well. So, the next day we went over to Mark's parents' house for Taylor's birthday. It was really nice, especially for Cam. Taylor and all her cousins were very nice and they all got along with Cam and played really well together. The kids in my parents' neighborhood are not very nice and have been mean, especially to Cam. One example of this is when we opened the door one day to go out and play. There was a kid sitting on my parents' lawn under a tree. As soon as we opened the door and started down the stairs, he turns around and yells at us to go away and leave him alone. They run away from Cam and tell him he can't play and call him names. They've been mean to Addie as well, but it's mostly been Cam. It was great for him to have some nice kids to play with. Anyway, they had a bounce house and a BBQ. We had a lot of fun.

The kids watched a few movies and ate yummy popcorn that Grandma Fox made. She popped the popcorn in coconut oil and added salt, it was delicious. We could have eaten it all day. We also enjoyed Grandpa Fox's breakfast. He put in hemp, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, coconut oil, and bananas (or any fruit). Even the kids liked to eat this for breakfast and even Addie kept asking for more. When we get a job and have money again, we'll have to make this.

One night we took leftover dough from our yummy, mummy hot dog dinner and made garilla/monkey bread. The kids rolled the dough into little balls and then rolled them in cinnamon and sugar. We put dough balls in a bundt pan and Barbara melted butter and brown sugar and poured it over the top and baked it. It's probably one of our most favorite treats. Emery was getting upset that she didn't get to help so I handed her some dough to roll. She handled this part ok, but got upset when I took it from her and added it to the pan. I ran and got the camera thinking she would do it again, only to have her eat the piece of dough that I handed her. Luckily, it wasn't as big as the first dough I gave her.

In the morning before we left, Grandma and Grandpa took Cam and Addie with them to walk the dogs. Addie got to walk Arrow and Cam got to walk Roxy. Even Maddy got to go on this walk since it was short. She's their oldest dog and can't handle long walks anymore. I'm sure the dogs are all very glad that we're gone. They had to stay outside for the most part, except sleeping at night in their crates. Roxy got to come in for a little since she has short hair and didn't seem to bother anyone's allergies. Addie and I are allergic to the dogs. So, as not to bother Addie's asthma, the dogs stayed out. Roxy is probably glad we're gone as well, especially since the kids made her very nervous. Emery appears to only like animals from a distance as she was scared to death anytime the dogs got near her, not to mention other animals as well. She started to warm up to Roxy though and ended up following her around the house yelling, "Hi!, Hi, Rock!, Hi, doggy!, Hi, Rocky!". She even got up the nerve to pat her on the head. Roxy, spent most of her time dodging Emery and hiding under the coffee table to get away from unwanted attention.

We went to the park a few times as well. One of the kids' favorite things to do was to throw the tennis balls for Arrow and Roxy to play catch. They would sometimes get to use the tennis racket to hit the balls, which we did for Arrow at the park one day.

We also played the Wii, and danced on the dance pads. Even Emery danced a little.

Emery discovered the piano while at Grandma and Grandpa's house. She loves to play the piano and we had Brie's old piano in Brig's room where we were staying. Emery would come running in and climb up on the bench and begin pounding the keys and singing along. After a couple of days of this I noticed Emery would say the word "tampon" every time she wanted to play the piano. I thought this was hilarious. I have no idea why she thinks piano is "tampon". I would correct her and say it's "piano". After hearing me, she'd say, "panno". But, if she ever said it on her own, it was always "tampon". So, we have some pics of Emery playing the "tampon".

Well, got to go to church soon, so I will be posting pics along with this later.