A camping we went

We went camping last weekend up at Troy Meadows. It's up past Kennedy Meadows a little ways, maybe an hour and a half from town (wasn't keeping track...). The area was really nice. Lots of trees and nice temperatures. Turns out the area is also very popular for dirt biking. They were all very quiet at the campground, but it was very noticeable when walking around that we seemed to be the odd ones out without the bikes resting near our area.


We're guessing this might be the 'meadow'




Trevor is always excited to climb


Cooking dinner... sometime before this point I stopped trying to keep up with the boys' grubbiness


Can you spot the clever Ryan?


Ryan seems to be camera trained--he was popping in between the trees saying "cheese!"

We discovered something partway into the trip. Ryan REALLY likes inclines. So the major lesson we learned is that we should get a campsite that is down from the road instead of a little up. Ryan's favorite activity was to run down slopes. So into the road and then down the road. We took quite a few little jaunts up and down the hill (he'd only want to walk up maybe half the time though).


Weee!




The next morning--Trevor guiding Ryan back up the hill. I think he was saying something like "see Ryan, that's number 17" (referring to the site markers)

The next day we had our pancakes, played around a little, and then packed up before finding a good hiking spot. It rained overnight a little but things weren't too damp.


Happy Hikers

Trevor did really well for the hike. It was probably an hour and had a little altitude gain. There were enough rocks to climb over to keep his interest. And he decided that he was a super hero pretty early on and used his 'sticky boots' and 'sticky hands' to help along the way. It was a good reframing for him because he got some sap stuck on his hands that wouldn't completely come off. So he definitely made the best of it.



I think most of his happy moments were on top of large piles of rock

Ryan and I waiting for Trev and John to come back down from the rocks. Ryan was declaring 'no' to saying cheese... getting tired.


Drive home

Dancing, Water and Fireworks

Not that they're necessarily connected...

I took a video of one of the boys' recent dance offs. They definitely both have their own style.



Ryan's dancing is sometimes interrupted by finding cheerios on the ground and the techno/screen saver like thing that shows on the TV while the music plays.

Trevor finished up his swim lessons. They lasted every day for two weeks. He managed to have the driest head in the entire pool. He did make a lot of progress from last year though--he participated every day, wore a life jacket, jumped in from the side, and even went down the slide once on the last day. What he really seemed to enjoy was trying to hang on the metal ladder bar thing and climb on the walls. So I signed him up to start gymnastics again. He's pretty excited about that.



For 4th of July we went to the Griffen's and they set up a big blow up water slide. Trevor seemed to quickly overcome his aversion to getting his head wet. He even went over to the kiddie pool and purposefully dunked his head. He said that he wasn't sure in swim class but now has had enough time to think about it and decided it's okay.



We all went to a parking lot to watch the city fireworks. John bought some 'lame California fireworks' that Trevor and Matthew appreciated setting off before the show.








Trevor decided he wasn't shy around the girls when he found out they had popits