let the party begin

The family all got together for a Wood Family Reunion, it started at my parents home in Washington where just my immediate family met up for a week before heading off to the BIG Wood Reunion in Lava Hot Springs with my Dad's whole family. Nate was not able to make it to the Washington get together but we met up with him in Idaho.

All pics in this post our taken my my sis Janica.

Check out all of her photography work at janicalarae.com

Kali always willing to model for us :)

before jumping in the pool we painted all of our nails.

Then Kali jump, dove and swam like a little fish,

she finally got brave enough to go off

the slide and jump off the diving board

thanks to Auntie Cori and Uncle Tucker :)

They helped ease her into the idea by having her jump and slide

onto a big floating mattress first.

Then Aaron surprised the kids with their very own fishing poles

and gave them lessons on casting, so they would be ready for fishing at the cabin.

Kali was able to do it all by herself and casted all the way over the pool,

she does better than me.

Aaron and I hanging out

Kali, mom and Cori went for a run.

Kali wanted to look just like her Auntie.

She will not let me ever put her hair in a pony tail but she let her Auntie do it!

Kali has become quite the little runner. She can run a quarter of a mile with our stopping, than takes a little breather and runs all the way back.

Aaron has her in training.

Sunday afternoon hanging out with the family.

Kali and I are twins :)

me at 15 weeks

Grandma putting all the grandkids to work pulling weeds, and playing of course :)

swimming

hot or cold, rain or shine

this is where Kali likes to spend her time.

Seriously though, the other day it was 60 degrees outside,

70 degrees in the pool and it started to rain out side,

that did not stop her, she had to get in her morning swim.

This is how Krew likes to spend his time :)

While I was cooking dinner, Krew was making a movie tower.

thanks Kali for helping clean it up :)

Sunday afternoon

The kids in Grandpa's orchard picking and eating cherries.

Krew hasn't learned yet how to spit out the pits

and won't let me pit them for him, so he may grow a cherry tree in his stomach.

Kali is so sweet always picking me flowers.

She will be running around and stop abruptly when she sees a flower she wants to pick for me.

So SWEET :)

This is how Krew rolls.

This is how Kali rolls. My girlie tomboy.

It is not uncommon to see Krew pushing this tractor around where ever he goes.

snow, really?

June 16, 2010 - somewhere in the mountains of Oregon :)

I wake up to this.

40 degrees and snow.

and by noon it was 60 degrees and looked like this.

by 2:00 the kids were playing on the dock and getting their feet wet and muddy.

Krew my little Hawaiian baby

(because of his love for running around in his diaper :)

When Dad got home at 7:00 pm he dumped all of the melted snow out of the canoe

and we went for

a canoe ride and watched deer.

can you see the deer?

When we were on the other side of the lake

we were right next to them,

but of course I didn't have my camera in the canoe.