Hume Lake

We were able to spend a week at Hume Lake with friends for the second year in a row. It was so much fun! We rented a cabin "beautiful home" with friends from college and their families. We had a great time together. Here are some of the highlights.

Chris & Alicia, Us, Katy & Wes. Not pictured- Jason, Bonnie & Brodie and Keri & Brent


Jeff's parents met us the first day we were there and we had fun exploring with them. They only stayed one night cause they were at the end of their trip and had stayed an extra day to see us.

Josiah with Grandpa

We enjoyed putting our feet in the creek. The water was cold but it didn't stop the kids from getting wet. They loved it. Especially after a 5 hour drive.

Here's a picture of the lake. It's so beautiful there. The weather was perfect and the lake was refreshing. Not too cold but definitly not warm. Often in the evenings we would take a walk and feed the ducks.

We also learned how to play disc golf. The guys played almost every day. It was fun. It's something we can do with the kids. We're planning to play around Santa Cruz sometime in the future.
We had a hotdog and smores roast the first night. It was a great way to start the vacation.




Most days were spent at the lake playing in the water. Tori's favorite memory is when I started to swim a fish jumped up and hit me in the head. I felt it and both Jeff and Tori were laughing and trying to explain to me what happened. Tori is still retelling the story.

VACATION

Daddy makes an excellent chair.

Milkshakes are a yummy treat at the snackbar. We tried to have one every night...you have to have goals.

Buck Rock- there is a fire lookout at the top of this huge rock that we were able to climb to the top of. The views were amazing. We even saw a couple fires going while we were up there. Tori actually climbed halfway before deciding that was high enough. While we were sitting there waiting for everyone else a hummingbird buzzed by and she started laughing and said, "I think the hummingbird just tootsed." She thought it was hilarious...I thought she was.

We're going to the top!

1/2 way up

We made it.

Can't wait for next year! Thanks friends for another fun year.

Fires Again?!!!

The helicopters and tankers are flying by again. It's an unsettling feeling. I know the fire will probably not threaten us (it's in Bonny Doon) but in the course of 5 minutes at least five planes/helicopters have passed by over our house. I'm so thankful for the resources that we have to fight fires but it's worrisome knowing that it's not technically "fire season" yet. It's not pleasant to wake up to national news reporting that the Santa Cruz mountains are burning again.

There goes another one overhead...two. Seriously in the time it took me to type this at least 10 flew over.

Here I go...

I've started a family blog, hopefully I'll keep up with it. Here's what's going on in the Coffer Clan right now:

I'm loving the sunny day, reading a great book, and working on this blog. Jeff has been working too much recently but right now he's getting some stuff ready for our vacation next week. We're really excited about it. Oh, Tori is officially a "potty training drop out". I couldn't handle all the "accidents" anymore. The novelty of going on the potty wore off and she couldn't be bothered to sit on the potty so she'd rather let it run down her leg and let me clean up pee pee prints all over the house. Not to mention the other nastier messes. Once I realized that it was a choice not an accident it was back to diapers. We're both much happier with the situation. Hopefully she'll decide to try again soon, but we'll see. Josiah is learning to sign. His first one is "more", it's of course related to wanting more food. As far as crawling goes, he's still stuck in reverse and would love to figure out how to crawl forward- it'll come little man, don't give up on your dreams.