We love camping!!

Thursday, June 18th through Saturday June 20th, Morgan and I had the opportunity to go camping with my parents and my sister Emilie, her husband Ben and their two little ones, Charlie, age 2, and Myles 8 months. We camped at the Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park near Santa Cruz, CA. Our campsite was beautiful but full of poison oak and luckily nobody got it. We were right next to the bathrooms which is a pregnant womans dream come true and we were about 15 minutes away from the beach. We spent the majority of the day on Friday at Natural Bridges State Beach. Morgan built sand castles and later he and Ben went body surfing. We visited the tide pools nearby and munched on food all day. My legs and feet got pretty burned and actually swelled a lot. The swelling is finally subsiding. Morgans back was really burned as well and is already peeling. Saturday we went on a stroll through the redwoods. It was beautiful. We had a wonderful time and have yet again learned to put on sunscreen.

20 week Tummy Shot

Here is the tummy shot that has been requested. I'm 20 weeks along now, halfway through the pregnancy. I don't think my face has really gotten as pudgy as it looks in the picture. I just don't take very good pictures, so disregard the face;)

Our Lightning Storm

This last week our area got a rather random lightning storm that lasted all night. It was beautiful. We had the down pour and all! We took a few videos and the one we have posted is a pretty cool lightning show. We just loved the weather! We apologize in advance for the wierd commentary.:)

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Gone Fishin'...

...but no catchin'. On Monday the 1st of June, Morgan and I went to Sly Park Lake for FHE. Can you believe the day pass is 10 flippin' dollars?! We were only there for an hour! It was nice and peaceful until the mosquitos started enjoying our blood. The spot that we chose to fish at and eat our TOGO's dinner, looked perfect, but once the line was cast out into the water, there was nothing but weeds EVERYWHERE. Morgan kept trying to cast to different areas but would always get those darn snags! So we are looking forward to my brother, Chris, the pro, to teach us how to fish, where to fish, what to fish with, and all that jazz.

Here's Morgan enoying his Pastrami sandwich. I had already gobbled mine up by this point.

A recent visitor!

So Morgan was walking outside on our porch late the other night and scared me to death when he said, "Woah!" Then whispering, "Terie, come look at this!" I said, "What is it? I don't want to see it if it's scary!"

He said, "It's a snake!"

"I don't want to see a snake!!"

I went out there and sure enough. There was a snake. It was a king snake. My brothers used to catch king snakes when we were little. I guess Morgan found a red racer the other day as well and put it in our garden.

Iris Heaven

We live in Iris Heaven. They were here long before we arrived but here are a few pictures (photoshopped obviously) that show you how pretty our yard was before they died recently. I didn't realize iris's came in so many different colors! They are so pretty!

It's Gardening Time!

We recently finished our garden on Saturday the 23rd of May. It took a total of 2 evenings and 1 day to finish. It consists of strawberries, watermelon, belle peppers, grape tomatoes, string beans, cucumbers, and a pumpkin. We are now crossing our fingers that it will grow. We put a lot of work into it and we are hoping to reep what we have sowed.

Day 1: Create grow boxes. Isn't my husband so cute! He loved getting out his tools and working with his hands in the dirt!

I did most of the hoing and breaking up of the ground.

I look extremely ecstatic don't I?

Morgan cleaning up for the evening.

Day 2: Putting up the fence. (We have deer out here in the country that like to venture into the gardens).

Day 3: The planting phase.

Here's a picture of Morgan putting in the irrigation system. He is so handy!

The finished product! Secured with plastic gate and all.