End of Summer

I cannot believe the whole summer has gone by and we have not managed to post once, so I will just give a brief summary of some of the things we did ( some I cannot remember).
The end of July we took a camping trip to the Calveras Big Tree State Park with 3 other families all of whom have girls around Ciara's age. It was our first camping trip with all 3 girls, but they all did great and showed they were capable of roughing it for a few days. We spent one day swimming in a lake close to the campsite and another day swimming in the river and just hanging out and relaxing in general. The kids all got on great together and we hardly saw them the whole time, with the exception of Tara, she was too little to run with the gang.
Early August brought Grandma Trish and Grandpa Ron to visit, we had a really nice visit them, we almost gave Grandpa Ron a heart attack when we forced him to drive through downtown San Francisco on our way to the Bay Area Discovery Museum over in the Marin headlands but it gave him some stories to tell about this visit.
On August 15 Fiona celebrated her 3rd birthday and thinks she has officially joined the "big girls club". I took the day off and she got to hang out with just me, she graciously allowed Ciara to join us to go see Kung Fu Panda, it was her first trip to a movie theater and she was more interested in the bag of popcorn ( which took her the whole movie to eat) than the actually movie.
We just spent this past week renting a cabin at Sorensens resort in Hope Valley, approx half hour south of Lake Tahoe. The scenary around us was beautiful and made for a very relaxing time. We went swimming in a natural hot springs pool, spent time just playing by the river close to the cabins and we spent one day at the beach by Lake Tahoe. We also brought the kids for a little horse ride which was fun. We went on little mini hikes and played games and everyone was well worn out by night time, we actually got to sleep in some mornings ( that was a highlight for me). It was a really nice trip and we are hoping to go back in the winter time to play in the snow.
I am going to post some random pictures from the summer, most are from the Sorensons trip as that was really the only time we took the camera out.