House Boat Trip 2012 Shasta Lake!

 lol ...nice driving babe!
This past week we were on a houseboat with Greg's family in celebration of his parents 30th wedding anniversary and his dad's retirement. I knew the trip was going to be fun, but it really was an awesome time! Very relaxing and enjoyable moments with some great people! A lot of food and drinks were consumed this week , which is how we like it!I totally want to do this with my family too and with Greg's family again it really is so much fun wading around in the water, seeing all the stars at night and laughing with family!

 I had koozie cups made with a little house boat on them!

 Kisses for Bailey...

We had just set sail and already the drinks were a pouring!

 Bailey needing to be in the mix she did so good I'm proud! The water felt amazing and was so pretty!

 Relaxation Station!

 Serious...

 goofy! lol

 Yup lost these glasses...

 Pretty, pretty.

 Claudia's Cousin boated by and spent the day with us.

 Water slide-a-rama!

 Tom, Greg's uncle surprised us by hitching a ride with their cousin for the day!

Bailey was giving him a ride back to the boat lol... she definitely loves retrieving things!

 Bails turn for a ride !

 Happy and tan family ;)

 It was a great few days and was hard to leave.

Thank you Greg and Claudia! We are so happy we could share in the celebration with you guy's it really was a trip to remember...and maybe to duplicate one day!

Big Basin

 This weekend we had a really fun and much needed camping trip with my dad. It had been way too long since we had seen my dad and this camping trip was a fantastic way to get back into the swing of things. We camped at Big Basin in the Coastal Redwood Forest. We camped at Little Basin and hiked to Big Basin on Saturday. My family camped at Big Basin when I was young and had GREAT memories there...even of Heather and I getting lost on a hike (even though we found our way back and knew where we were the whole time;) lol. It was great getting to see things I remembered and all these tress still amaze me!

 I was our make shift tour guide...

 This tree is the Father of the Forest!

 This one is the largest in the park and is called the Mother of the Forest.

 It's hard to see, but this cabins name was Stephanie!

 The fallen tree below and it's roots are one of the things I remembered from when I was a kid!

 Lol I love how dad had to stand on the fire pit to catch up to Greg. We had a great trip dad from our uphill hike, the speak easy trunk, the cast iron pot, the fires, bike rides and talks! Hopefully we will see each other sooner than later! xoxo

Black Bean & Feta Dip

This was an appetizer I saw on a blog and knew I wanted to try this weekend for girls weekend at the cabin. It was easy and turned out yummy.

whisk in a big bowl 1 cup sugar, 3/4 cup apple cider vinegar, 3/4 cup vegetable oil. Add 3 cans black beans rinsed and drained and 3 cans shoe peg corn rinsed and drained.Add 1 bunch or scallions and cilantro chopped and mix well. Chill until serving. Serve with tortilla chips or corn chips.
ooops! and 8 oz. feta cheese (good catch Sherina ;)

Sister Time

 

As always sister visits are bittersweet...I love spending time with my sister and her husband, but it reminds me of how much I miss her when she leaves. This visit marks the last before some pretty big changes (not sure if I can blog about it yet ;) so it was nice to get some one-on-one time ! The weather was not what we had planned on, literally it rained and got freezing cold just for the days they were here and now it's back to 90's! Oh well it allowed for some down time where hand and foot action could occur...J.D's idea a 7 game series in hand and foot! The Vieners (joke between us lol) were the Girls woo woo!

 McCloud hats!

 lol You can tell by our borrowed attire that we didn't plan/pack for the 50 degree weather!

 Only took 24 pictures and 1 video to get this shot a la Heathers artistic eye lol

 We got to see the mountain one day!

 Happy family ;)

 looking buff Jd lol...

 Jd's sidekick, Bailey loved her auntie and uncle.

 Fishing

 hmmm... what's that?

Love you sister! ...I can't even tell you how excited I am and thankful for this next part of both of our lives! It just makes me sad I can't be there everyday, I'll keep praying and one day our paths might be houses right next door to each other.

Sugar Hand Scrub

 So I have been totally addicted to Pinterest lately and I had to try this hand scub I pinned.

Super easy and it works pretty good on getting your hands smooth.

Whatever jar you want to use fill it 3/4 the way with sugar. Then using the Dawn soap with Olay Hand Renewal fill 1/4 of the way (I did to my mason jar brim).

Stir together and you have a scrub!