Saturday at Pine Flat

So Saturday Doug and I took the kids to the home and patio show at the Visalia Convention Center.  Ho hum.  It wasn't quite what we expected, but we got in for free, so no love lost.  All loaded back up and in the car we decided we were in a wandering mood (when are we not?).  So we called Paul and Christa to see if they'd like to join our wandering.  We met up in Sanger, originally thinking we'd head up to the snow, but since this was a spur of the moment idea, we weren't really snow-ready, so we decided to head up to Pine Flat dam instead, let the kids run around by the river and such.  It was a fun, relaxed afternoon.  It was nice to be out (we haven't done a lot of wandering/outside time since Kylie was born).  The kids had a blast, and here's the evidence:

Our whole pack (sans Doug the photographer, of course).  That's Alexa under that checkered blanket:)

Keilana and Dylan LOVE throwing rocks in water--it can literally entertain them for hours.  Keith liked that, too, though I noticed he was fond of throwing in sticks as well.

Our little Canon has some fun features, one being the ability to play with the color settings.  The boys were in blue. . . . 

. . .and Keilana in pink

This one was based off the brown in Paul's sweatshirt--check out how well it picked up their skin tones!

Oh, their hair.  I love their hair.

These two are the ultimate boys.  They love each other, though I swear they've got to spend half their time fighting.  Monsters, the both of them. 

So, we tried to get a picture of all the kids sitting in this cool tree.  Dylan took off.  He climbed to the top of this branch, and then got stuck.  He couldn't go any further, but didn't know how to get down, either.  

Looking like a treed cat! :)

Snapped one last shot (not realizing the color settings were still altered) before Christa climbed to the rescue.  I thought we should just leave him there until he got desperate enough to jump, but that could've taken a while.  

We did get a few photos before he escaped:)