Sunday, July 5, 2009

Peres, Rodriguez, and Rutherford Annual Family Campout: June 2009

We headed up to Cisco Grove near Truckee, CA for a week long vacation in the beautiful, much cooler mountains. After getting through the stomach flu the first night/day we had a great time. Well, besides all the mosquitoes. I had never seen it so bad before. We couldn't get the bug spray on fast enough or often enough. We counted 30 bites on Scott's back. Ouch!
Steve, brother-in-law Rick, and I were determined to make it a training week for our upcoming triathlon. I thought we did pretty well. We ran, mountain biked, road biked, and froze our backsides off swimming in a lake. The kids loved playing with their older cousins all day. They rode bikes and played in the creek. We took the kids to Steve's family's favorite swimming hole where they looked for gold. We went into Truckee for dinner and our annual family picture. I would have to say the highlight of the trip was having them all come back down to Folsom for a day to cheer me on in my mountain bike race. I took 1st place for the 2nd time. I know their presence had a big effect on me. Thanks guys!

Elizabeth Rutherford


Rebecca Rutherford

Joshua

Scott

Steve...reading as usual.

Rick and Rebecca Rutherford roasting marshmallows with Scott and Joshua.

Anne Rutherford showing us her best smile.


Noah chows on a smore, just like the squirrels.


Rick and Scott NOT at the swimming hole. Wrong place. Keep looking.


Anne, Rebecca, and Rick...found the swimming hole.


Noah, Steve, and Scott. Come on in, the water's fine...if you like ice!


Scott and Steve


Rebecca and Elizabeth R.


Joshua, Rebecca, and Elizabeth R.


Elizabeth pretending to be happy while being eaten alive by mosquitoes.


Joshua and Rebecca

Scott looking for gold.


Joshua and Rebecca found a water slide!


The swimming hole!

Noah looking for gold.

Rick and Anne


Joshua on his water slide.

The whole clan (minus Kristina and Dustin).

Elizabeth, Rebecca, Anne, and Rick Rutherford

Steve and Elizabeth

Steve, Elizabeth, Joshua, Scott, and Noah

Deron and Teresa Rodriguez

George Peres and Phyllis Collins

The clan hanging out around the campfire.

Deron, Rebecca, Joshua, and Noah

Phyllis, George, and Steve

Scott's "action" photo.

Joshua and Rebecca

Anne and Rick

Noah, Scott, and Joshua enjoying some good books.

Teresa and Rick keeping an eye on the fire.

1 comment:

Angela (Turner) Howland said...

Wow those girls have grown up! Looks like you had a good time despite all those pesky bugs!!