Mountain Festival 2011

On the ferris wheel!!!

the Kamikaze!...Dustin is in there somewhere!!!

Boy Creativity

We heard lots of hammering Saturday morning...and it ended up the boys were making a fort...pretty cool!

Here's Joseph re-painting his second bike...

Big Bear Summer Fun

While Derek got nursing duty for Shasta recovering from her latest knee surgery, I took the boys for a last summer jaunt up to Big Bear before school starts this coming week...
We had a great time at the cabin and the weather was beautiful...here we are at the Village...

This year's new find was the Swim Beach - a great little place for some fun in an offshoot of the lake...

We also visited a local park...

...and the zoo

Here We Go Again

Poor Shasta girl started limping on her right leg - we pretty much knew right away that it was likely her other knee's ACL was tor - almost a year to the date of her left knee surgery last year -- so.....another trip to the doggie orthopedic surgeon...and more bandages, cone, staples and recovery!

This last weekend (8/13) Shasta got her staples removed - bandage was taken off a week earlier -- she's doing well! We're on to the "got to reign in her energy" phase as she wants to chase deer and squirrels on her 5-10 min walks -- ay yi yi!!!