Been awhile…

July 20, 2007 by Joe.

Wow, a lot has happened since June 18th (my last post).  Where should we begin.

On June 30th, we went on a road trip to Northern California.  That night, we stayed at a campsite just north of LA.  It was a great campsite but we really had to be careful about the poison oak.  It was everywhere.  We then continued our drive north.  We made a stop at a fountain called Old Faithful.  This isn’t the one in Yosemite or Yellowstone (wherever?), it is in Napa valley.  It was cool to watch the geyser go off and we got to see it spray twice.  We then left and many hours later found our campsite in Richardson Grove state park.  This is just south of the Redwood National Forest.  This campsite was great as well.  Lots of trees and pretty level.  We walked on quite a few trails and also along the river a ways.  We did quite a few things on this trip including driving along avenue of the giants.  We stopped at many of the small towns and thought about attempting to drive the truck through one of the trees.  We didn’t.  Throughout the week, Josh was our mesquito repellent.  Sami got bit zero times, I got bit three times, Tara got bit seven times and Josh got bit 28 times.  I swear we were soaking in him repellant but they kept going after him - everywhere!  We also went on a really steep trail the day before we left.  It was about a mile and a half long and it dropped 800 feet in that distance.  Josh was a real trooper most of the way and then he started to not enjoy it at all.  If you ask him what he enjoyed about that trail, his reply will be “nothing - I liked nothing about it”.  I ended up carrying Sami both down and up on my shoulders cause it was easier to do that then try to hold her hand and have her walk.  It was too steep for her.  We only made it about a mile down and decided to go back up.  I can’t wait to go back when they are older and I don’t have to carry them.  It is suppose to have some of the largest Redwoods at the bottom. 

After we got back we had the dreadful news about our niece passing away.  She was a tough six year old who had many challenges in her life.  Please keep her family and friends in your thoughts and help them keep the strength and courage they taught Izabelle to continue on with their lives. 

Josh had a doctors appointment today.  He is int he 95 percentile in height but only 50 percentile in wieght.  We also had his ears checked and they were full of wax.  They weren’t able to get it all out so we will be working on that in the next week or so.  Our doctor is working on scheduling him to meet with a specialist regarding his hearing.  Let’s hope everything is ok.

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