The Jones Round Up: Road trip to California!!

It was such a neat thing to be with my parents adn my brother Clint on Thursday on. It was such a fun Road trip adn we all did GREAT till monday morning when we were all ready to be home :)
Tuesday.....
Desert Flower

Dinner Tuesday night (our first night)

Lye Creek Campground in the Humboldt Mountains

headed out for our hike

Hiking up Lye Creek

View from the Humboldt mountains in Nevada

Wednesday at Lake Tahoe (Emerald Bay)

Boys at Emerald Bay Campground

Thursday Morning headed out to Yosemite From Lake Tahoe

Yosemite Valley! ....Majestic~

Coming into Yosemite valley on Thursday afternoon

Our Friday Adventures in The Beautiful Yosemite park.... Bridal Veil Falls

Gideon was so strong he broke right through the huge log...Super powers are amazing :)

We climbed up and over all of these huge boulders. It was fun to see and feel the mist from the falls.

Where are the Lion's boys? Do you see them out there in the meadow....?

Playing in the meadow :)

You just keep looking up and up and up till you finally see the top. AMAZING formations from Glaciers in this park. It was incredible!

Vernal Falls. We didn't go all the way up. We were too tired on getting that far :)

Bridger fell asleep on the hike up towards Vernal falls in my sling. Grandpa was giving me a break and letting him rest on him. So cute!

Clint and Gideon

Gideon getting nervous...he's afraid of heights and was pretty amazed at this height

Looking down over 3,000 feet straight down a sheer cliff

It was MAJESTIC!!

View from Glacier point

Saturday....
We stayed at Forks Campground near Oakhurst California on Thursday and Friday night and headed out on Saturday to San Francisco!~
This is our daily ritual of packing up the truck :) We got good!

Verlene and Uncle Bob
who live in Mountain View California near San Francisco; We were leaving Yosemite Saturday and spontaneously decided to go an extra day and go see my Dad's sister Verlene. I haven't seen them in probably over a decade. My childhood memories were of my uncle Bob running up to me and grabbing me and tossing me into the air. He was always so excited to see us. Verlene was a lot like my Grandma Edna. I even thought of her when I walked into her house. it was decorated like my Grandma had things. It was really good to see them. Me Clint, Gideon and Bridger played at a park Saturday afternoon across the street from their house while my parents visited with them. :)

On our way to half moon bay it was sunny and warm and right before we got to the ridge line that we go over to get to the coast was this tidal wave of a cloud. It was like the movie 2012 where the wave is going over the mountain. It totally looked like this and it was rolling and the mist was falling down to the other side of the hill. It was pretty awesome. My brother's camera got a pretty good shot of this that I will post later. Fun Fun! We stayed at half moon bay saturday night

Sunday....
Half Moon Bay Camping near San Francisco

Me and my brother Clint :)......I had been camping for 6 days by now,....it was getting to me :)

Yummy hot Chocolate

My Hot chocolate is too hot :(

Silly!

Cutie 1

And Cutie 2

Running from the waves.... i held there hands in the waves adn they just loved it. The water is still cold but it is warmer than the Oregon Coast

Enjoying the sunny weather on the nice Warm beach :)

MOM!!! There is sand on my hand!! :)

FUN on the sand~

Gideon's Footprint

Bridger's Footprint

Ta Da!!! We are at the OCEAN!

Surfers out in the water!

Clint and I spent saturday night sitting on the beach talking after I got the boys down for the night. The light polution was pretty bright that we actually could see farely well but you looked toward the ocean and it was pitch black. Kinda freaky looking. I was glad to be on the beach and not out on a boat in the darkness. :)

SAN FRANCISCO!!
Golden Gate Bridge....Yes that is as close as I got :) Another time we will spend more time there.

I spent Saturday and Sunday driving with my brother. This is his green truck in this picture. Gideon joined us for saturday's drive. it was a lot of fun catching up with him and playing. Love ya Bro!!