Birthday Boy

Happy Birthday Chase on the 29th of July!

This post is all about Chase's birthday weekend!

Two Saturdays ago, we went to Shaver Lake with Chase's family to try the rope swing that Sam (Chase's brother) had found. Because we had Chase's niece and nephews with us, we also found a little beach to swim at because the rope swing went off a cliff. I didn't do the swing because it was really scary. Sam did double back flips off of it. The jump started five feet up a tree and at the apex, it was about thirty feet off the water. Scary!

Sam had his ever present GoPro and both the videos were made with it. Sam wouldn't jump with it attached to his head because it falls off and smacks his nose, so the top video was filmed by someone in the water. The video below it was filmed on land.

After the lake, Chase wanted to go rock climbing on some large pinnacles that we found a couple of months ago. Chase, Sam, and Micah (Chase's brother-in-law who is married to his sister Natalie) hiked up a ridge to the rocks while Natalie and I stayed with the kids and read. A giant group of trailer campers moved in and set up all around us (we were parked on a pull out in an area where free camping is allowed). We were not impressed, especially since one of them almost hit Natalie's car when trying to get around them. Eventually, the men came back down the hill and we were able to leave. At least the lake was fun!