Dave and Cathy's Family Blog

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This month’s blog post includes 2 pages of pictures — click on the numbers above to see all pages.

July Highlights:

• We return to our beloved Lake Tahoe
• Luke starts to come of age in the ocean, paddling out for the big ones
• We celebrate Nicholas’ birthday
• Kids give in to the Pokemon Go craze and we help enable it 😉
• We take a side excursion to Reno, Nevada
• Attend Brandon and Kevin’s beautiful wedding in Corona Del Mar
• This one is not a highlight but a low light — my sister’s family lost their beloved 13.5 year-old dog Buddy to illness. We will all miss the sound of his feet on the hardwood floor, his rascally ways of stealing food off the counter, and his loving, gentle demeanor.

Lake Tahoe 2016

Writing about vacations is bittersweet. On the one hand, it’s cool to see the pictures and reflect back fondly on the new memories we made in Lake Tahoe; on the other hand it’s tough to not still be there having more good times with the kids. But that’s just how it is and little by little all of us have gotten back to our familiar routines.

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• Family vacation at Lake Tahoe
• Luke participates in week-long basketball camp
• We celebrate Nicholas’ birthday
• Chile wins it’s first ever Copa America

We Return to Lake Tahoe

This year marked our seventh trip to Lake Tahoe with Lilah and Luke. As is usually the case we were blessed with some great weather and decent water temperatures — even Cathy made it out deep into the lake which is very unusual for her. When we visit the lake we always try to make a point of taking part in new activities. This year we chose water skiing and mountain biking on the Flume Trail.

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This month’s blog post includes 3 pages of pictures — click on the numbers above to see all pages.

July Highlights:

• Fourth of July fireworks and hats (this year the kids only put them on for picture and refused to wear them after that)
• Tahoe vacation full of activity (ropes course, parasailing, zip lining, white water rafting…fun stuff). No water rafting pictures yet, but I will post them once we receive them
• We experience our first hailstorm together
• Nicolas’ birthday

Returning to Lake Tahoe

Last year, we went to Vegas for our family vacation, but with temperatures consistently in the 112+ degree range, we weren’t able to do a lot of the “outdoorsy” stuff we would normally do. This led to a lot of hanging out around the pool with kids who quickly grew bored and wondered when we would be going back home again. So after a three year absence, we returned to our happy place: Lake Tahoe. Cathy and I have been coming here on and off, on our own, then later with the kids, for the past 20 years. We’ve built many memories here and this year we added a few more to the stockpile. (more…)