Our first week away without the kids!

This is the instruction manual I left my mom for the kids. Sometimes I forget that she has already raised three kids herself.

Getting ready to get our 'float' on!

Floating day 2! SO FUN! Everyone must do this! You can see there are two seats in each raft. In the middle is a cooler! Perfect right?! We had these things down to a science, beers on the bottom, sandwiches on the top. We just tied the three of them some what together and let the river take us. So relaxing. My most favorite part of the week!


All blown up and ready to go! We had this all figured out as well. Drop the guys off at the gas station to fill up the rafts while we park the trucks and meet them at the docks!

Me introducing Karri to cake balls! Yum :)

Emerald Bay a.k.a. Heaven on Earth.

Ok, so there was a boy stuck on the side of one of the cliffs that needed to be rescued. After finding out that he was alright, we thought it was necessary to take a quick picture.

Our home away from home. Definately the way to go.

Craig and I at Donner Ski Ranch. We went there to check out something called Trial Racing. You should look it up if you don't know what it is. Pretty amazing. Just another fun day :)

We sent the guys in to buy rafts for us to float the river. As you can see, they were ABSOLUTELY THRILLED!

All of us!

Matt, Craig and Brent enjoying the deck!

Karri and I at Donner Ski Ranch :)

Craig and I had an awesome vacation in Tahoe this last week. We rented a home in Carnelian Bay with our friends Brent and Karri and Matt and Blythe. It was absolutely a blast! There were many times our faces hurt from laughing so hard! We did everything from hiking down to Emerald Bay, floating down the Truckee River TWICE (SO FUN!!!!), a little gambling, hot tubbing and a lot of relaxing. It was a week long laugh! This was my first time away from the kids for more than two nights. Although I missed them all so bad it hurt, we had so much fun our time there just flew by. We couldn't have asked for better company :)