Rocklin's Patriot Day

Now we are in September, and Rocklin has their

2nd annual Patriot Day Celebration. It is a day

for the city to celebrate its heroes and there are

many displays, police, fire and the military show up

with vehicles to look at and for the kids to climb in.

Many local vendors have booths there as well.

Parker and Jack had a good time climbing

in the all the vehicles and the Sheriff's Dept.

helicopter even landed in the parking lot and

they got a chance to sit in it.

 

Miscellaneous Pictures from August

Hannah and her friend found this box

in front of a neighbor's house and brought it

home, why, I don't really know but 

Parker and his friend Jack discovered it in

the garage and have had loads of fun playing

in it inside and outside the house.

Parker's cub scout pack's popcorn fundraiser

started in August.  Since I was co-popcorn

kernel and setting up and taking down the tables

at the stores, Parker filled in the schedule when

ever there was an opening.  He worked many hours

and sold quite a bit of popcorn, such a trooper.

Our pack did really well this year exceeding what

we sold last year by quite a bit.

Hayley's New Car

Since Hayley's college schedule this year was 

different than her friend she had been carpooling

with, we finally had to break down and get her 

her first car.  It is a Hyundai Elantra and she

really loves it and has been enjoying driving

herself to school and around town.

It's like a mini version of Tim's Sonata.

Camping Trip

Our first pack camping trip of the summer was at the 

Boy Scout camp Marin Sierra in the Tahoe National

Forest.  It was a nice camp and we had a good time

hiking, going swimming in Lake Spaulding (though

the water was freezing cold) and having fun

sitting around the campfire at night roasting

marshmallows and telling jokes and scary

stories. Some of the boy scouts from Troop

29 joined us and were helpful in showing

our cub scouts how to tie knots and whittle.

We drove a few miles from our camp to Lake Spaulding.

It was a beautiful day and the lake and scenery was

gorgeous.  The water was pretty cold but the boys

didn't seem to care and had a blast swimming.

 

 

One of our cub scouts found a frog and it

really became attached to him.  Even when he

put it back in the lake, it would swim back 

towards him and climb on him again.  It was

so cute to watch.

 

 

Parker got a chance to hold the frog.  He thought

it was pretty cool.  Such a boy.

At the campfire that night, the boy scouts performed

a funny skit for our boys.  They really liked it.