August Birthdays

After Squaw Valley, we headed down to Folsom to see my Mom's new home and celebrate her 70th birthday with her. With Marisa, my Mom, Auntie Sue, Aunt Lisa and Poppas birthdays in August, it's a busy month for celebrations. 

We stayed at my Mom's house with her and Auntie Sue, who was up for the weekend. After our annual first day of school clothes/shoes run to Scheels in Sparks, we got to Mom's pretty quickly after Squaw Valley, it was a nice easy drive. There were, of course, welcome gifts for the kids, salads, cookies, brownies, cheesecake, candy and spaghetti sauce. We had family tickets for the Train concert that night. Faith was a little under the weather so she stayed home with Grandma Mary and Auntie Sue while we took the boys out into the middle of nowhere to see their first concert. They were exhausted form the trip and the concert had two openers, so by the time Train came on, Tanner was trying to sleep on the blanket. They were interested for the first few songs but then were both done. It was a good concert, but we ended up leaving early and got back to Mom's about midnight.

We spent the next two days between Mom's house and Lisa and Clarks new place. They have great backyard with a pool that was full of children swimming, diving and shooting basketballs. All of their kids started school the next day, Cayden's first in High School, so it was kind of their last fling of the summer also. 

On Mom's birthday we had a great lunch and dinner, surrounded by more swimming (and some pre-season football). Eric and his girlfriend Cody made the trip up from the Bay Area to join us. Eric swam with the kids and everyone had a great time. We got a tour of Mom's mobile home park and neighborhood (which seems to be great), and spent the weekend catching up, eating and swimming. It was great to see everyone and just hang out a BBQ like we used to do and Grandma and Grandpa's house back in the day. 

We left Monday morning to head back up to Tahoe for another couple of days with Kim, Bill, Cori and the cousins before heading back to Boise.