Blue Mountain Beach: Day 6 of 8

Derek and Katie playing a morning game of Perquacky

Adam took his army men on the road

Derek's Scrabble pyramid

It's Paul's turn for the beat down

Jason and Laine

Adam tries in vain to keep Paul in the pool

Derek and Adam and their pimped out raft

Grill night - burgers, dogs, and brats

Birthday celebration for the boys

Derek turned 11 on March 30 and Adam turned 8 on April 11

Helen's peanut butter cake with chocolate gnosh

Derek and Adam read the next clue from Laine, who made up a fun scavenger hunt as a birthday present for the boys where clues led to plastic eggs with money and the next clue.

Adam plays with his new pirate figures

Derek shows Paul his new airplane

Laine's clues from birthday scavenger hunt

Thursday April 8, 2010

Blue Mountain Beach: Day 5 of 8

A little morning CRCT practice

Mom playing Scrabble with the boys

Katie, Jason, and Kelley. This was the first year we had a private pool. I preferred to be body surfing at the beach, but everyone else really loved hanging out around the pool. This day we hung out at the pool all day before finishing off the day with a quick trip to the beach. It turned out to be a perfect red flag day (high hazard) where the waves were really churning. It was the best body surfing conditions all week and we almost missed it.

Laine and Helen discuss Laine's process for making her Scrabble art pieces

Jason and Paul were nice and let Adam and Derek beat up on them

Katie...chillin

Kelley, Katie, and the boys playing Marco Polo

The boys helping me out in my Scrabble game with Jason and Kelley

Movie time

Wednesday April 7, 2010

Blue Mountain Beach: Day 4 of 8

My Mom made french toast for the boys

Helen and I went on a bike ride in the morning. The spokes on the piece of crap bike broke when we were almost home and caused the chain to derail.

Kelley, Jason, and Paul in the distance. Adam, me, and Katie in the foreground.

Derek lays it down just so

Me, Jason, Kelley, and Paul

Me catching a nice wave

Katie and Adam digging in the sand

Our family

Katie and Derek playing frisbee

Jason and Adam playing beach paddle ball

Adam cuddled me once I agreed to play a game with him

Adam is notorious for making up rules to skew every game in his favor. We were supposed to cover the other guy's beach toys with sand. I worked furiously and had almost covered all his toys when he announced that it was time to switch sides.

Finishing the day off at the pool

Katie and Laine

Tuesday April 6, 2010

Blue Mountain Beach: Day 3 of 8

Adam, Kelley, and Paul do some early morning work on the puzzle

Paul and Adam join Jason and Laine for their morning P90X workout

Derek doesn't like Mom putting sunscreen on his burned legs

Adam gets Nini to play a Nintendo game while Kelley works on the puzzle

Hauling all our stuff to the beach

I wish I knew how to get all the pictures to turn out crystal clear like this one

Let me guess...at first she hated him and then she saw beneath his conceited exterior and then they fell in love

Katie and Kelley are ready for the beach

I thought this guy was cool using a long paddle and board to surf

Me doing some body surfing

Me and Katie out in the water with Jason heading in

Jason and Adam playing frisbee

Laine and Katie visit with a lady and her dog

Derek helps prepare the garlic bread for dinner

The puzzle is starting to come together for Mom and Katie

Adam enjoys a cold beverage while he watches something on his computer

Helen was in charge of dinner - egg plant polenta

Adam and Paul continue their Mario Kart grudge match

Monday April 5, 2010