This is a Cody's summer hair. 
Dave turned 40 this year and here is his traditional birthday pie...coconut cream pie. This time I didn't call and order it from Coco's. I baked it myself.
Making pastry dough for more pies and tortes.
Hannah started tennis lessons at the club. She's been playing since she was 6 and now wants to be more involved in the sport.
I know... I'm need to hurry it up and fill you in on the rest of July.
Stay-cation fun! Made ice cream in a plastic bags. It really works!
Water balloon toss in the front yard.
Hanging out at the park in Big Bear.
While brother scooters at the skate park.
Celebrating Cody turning 14 years old.
Hanging out at the beach with friends. 
Boogie boarding...
and digging for sand crabs.
The trail description for Fern Lake Trail on Trails.com is as follows:
Here's Dave right after he caught his first "Golden Trout" on a barb less lure. It has been called the "Fish from Heaven." Small and beautiful, distinctive and spectacular and only survive at such high elevation. This trout with its vibrant colors evolved over thousands of years adapting to the high country meadows of the Kern Plateau. Sorry I did not get a photo of it. Dave wanted to release it back into it's habitat as soon as possible.
Okay next post will finish off the month of July. Thank you for visiting, see you again soon!
As promised here's a little bit for the month of July.
It's been a family tradition of ours to visit a National Park every summer. This year we spend a week camping at June Lake with our friends the Walker Family. We took a day trip to the Devil's Postpile National Monument. This is what it looks like at the base of the pile.
A hike up the pile and here's what the top of a column looks like. Amazing... 100,000 years ago, lava erupted from a volcanic vent. The lava cooled and began to shrink and stress, cracks formed and with the right cooling conditions the columns were shaped into hexagons.
Since we were already hot and sweaty, we decided to continue on and hike to Minaret Falls. Hannah got tired and Cody didn't mind an extra work-out. Too cute.
We went a little off course to get as close as we could to the falls. The water was so refreshing!
Here's Hannah being sworn in as a Junior Ranger for the Park. She was then presented a ranger badge.
Many hours were spent fishing while at June Lake. As for me, I savored the scenery.
Dave really liked float tube fishing. 
Final fishing score was: Dave-6 Cody-7 Hannah-9 I'm not too sure how official the scores are. I recall that Hannah seemed to have been the one who reeled in the most fish, regardless of whom the pole belonged to. 
We saw alot of wildlife. Here are some ducklings and their mama. My camera wasn't ready for the shot of an eagle catching a fish.
One of the highlights of the trip was crawdad catching at Gull Lake. Here's what dinner looked like two of the nights.
Gotta get...back, back to school. This time always reminds me of Grease w/John Travolta and Olivia Newton John. Summer fun is over and it's time to get back to the books (with all the singing of course). Here's how Hannah and Cody looked yesterday morning. 
Hannah had to have the red converse! I'm too much of a miss matchy so, I had to spend extra and get a black pair too.
The skater shoes live on for Cody, if he could he'd wear them on the pitching mound.
okay, okay...I know. The button has been on pause, there has been a rupture of time, a part has been missing, there was an extreme break, an interruption of sorts. Have you missed me? It is the end of the hiatus... the start of many posts.
...a stroll through Santana Row.
In the month of June.
Camping at the Kern River...
...cooling off at Lolo and Lola's pool.
...harvested from our apple tree.
We welcomed a new puppy to the family. Can you believe she was a stray? Without any luck of searching for her owner, she adopted us. 
