Happiest Place On Earth!

Every summer for the past 11 years, my family has vacationed at what the Castleton's consider to be the happiest place on earth, Lake Shasta(except for Linda). It's a gorgeous lake in Northern California with tons of trees, clean water, and almost always perfect weather(except for this year with all the fires and super low water). We go with 4 other families from our home Stake and live on houseboats for a week having the time of our lives wakeboarding, floating, cliff jumping, playing games, watching movies, eating good food, not sleeping, and on and on... We even have our own testimony meeting on the one Sunday we are there, which is my favorite Sacrament meeting of the year. This year Ben couldn't come and this was my first time traveling with two kids, so my sister Debbie met me in Vegas to help with the rest of the trip(can you say 'lifesaver'). The whole week was really hard without Ben and even though I'll never do it again, it was still totally worth it. Thanks Grammy & Poppy. Can't wait until next year!

Katelyn has always LOVED the boat rides...

but Samuel couldn't quite decide how he felt about it

Katelyn's new best Shasta buddy, Caitlin Redford

Grammy & Katelyn floating

Samuel & Aunt Stacey

My little flag girl

Katelyn driving the boat, in circles

'till next year...

Samuel had a major milestone while we were at Shasta. For the 10 minutes I was outside for, Poppy and his Uncle Gavin witnessed him roll over for the first time. I know it's not very exciting to most of you, but we are your typical annoyingly proud parents who want to share every little moment of our child's life. Enjoy!