Yet Another Sequoia Adventure

So I took Ethan for one last day of fun up in the mountains before school started. We went back to Sequoia for a hike. Before the hike we decided that we needed to see tunnel log. It was amazing. Then we headed over to Lodgepole for a hike. Ethan said it was the best day of his life. We had a 1.7 mile hike into some waterfalls and when we got there, I showed E how to do a little rock climbing. He was in heaven. He even fell into the waterfall.....surprise surprise. Here are the pics.

On the way to the hike

Tunnel Log...doesn't it look like a rear view mirror from this POV?


Ethan sitting on top. He loved it. The tree fell over in 1937 and they cut the 8 ft by 17 ft tunnel shortly after.
My car in tunnel log.


The whole log is all carved up with initials.
Here is another tree that fell over on a calm clear day. That is Ethan right in the middle of the root system.


Trailhead
It was such a beautiful hike.



I wanted to be that person just floating in the pool of water....what a life.
The view down the canyon once we made it to the falls.

Ethan at the falls. There obviously isn't much water flowing down the falls. If it were the beginning of summer, Ethan would be underwater.

Can you spot E?


The rock was super slick and pretty steep. Ethan thought he was really cool now that he knew a couple of the basics of climbing.
Taking in the view.

The hair disaster..

So like I mentioned in the previous post, I tried to go blonde ( i know, it was a BAD idea) and it didn't turn out so well...here are the pics of the adventure:


This picture really doesn't do it justice..my hair was gray, green and somewhat golden.



Here I am rocking my hat getting ready to head to the store to get dye:


Thank goodness I have a best friend who knows something about hair, she came to the rescue (and has MANY times with this same ordeal). I know, when will I ever learn.....
I am happy with how it turned out. I promised Andy that I wouldn't post this self portrait because he told me that he would take a better one of me with a MUCH better background, but if you have learned anything from this post you will realize that I don't have much patience when it comes to things that I want to do. I just get this overwhelming urge and just HAVE to do it. I figured that if I get the urge to do a blog post I better do it NOW, or else the urge might pass and it won't get done for another few weeks and by then I will have had to dye my hair again...you see where I am going??!!! Promise though, I am staying a brunette for quite some time. I have learned my lesson..well, at least for a few months ;).

August Adventures (thus far anyway...)

The boys ended the month of July by going camping. This time they brought along a fishing pole for Ethan. He was in little boy heaven!





This past weekend we headed up to the Fresno Chaffee Zoo. I really liked it because it isn't HUGE so one can spend a few hours there and see all there is to see and not feel too overwhelmed. We all really enjoyed it.


The kids got to feed this giraffe:




People who know me know that I am not a fan of birds, but I can appreciate a beauty when I see one!



To finish off our day we headed to In-N-Out Burger....man I love that place!



The next post will be of my hair DISASTER...I thought it would be a good idea to try to go blonde again on my own. Yes, I know, I am not allowed to buy store hair color on my own, but I just couldn't help myself. I just HAD to. So, I went from brown locks to blonde roots and green/grey striped hair. It was awesome. I had to wear a hat and sunglasses to the store to buy brown hair dye. I called Breck and got advice (and a much deserved scolding) and kind of fixed it. I have to wait a few days so I don't make my hair fall out before I post the final product. I will be basically the same color I have been for awhile but hopefully without the greyish tint it has to it now :).

Pictures from our trip to Utah

With the recent discovery of the Ansel Adams negatives, I had to do an imitation of his work.

Yosemite Valley with El Capitan and Half Dome in the distance.



Half Dome


Yosemite Falls


Yosemite Valley and the backside of El Capitan



Tonopah, Nevada. An old mining town where we stayed on our way to UT.



More Tonopah


And more

Wellsville



And a fun one of Mio

Boys trip to Sequoia National Park

Last week Andy and Ethan went to Sequoia National Park for the afternoon.










This was an enormous tipped over tree..it also made a pretty awesome slide!


Glad that I wasn't there...I am pretty sure I wouldn't have let him go across that!