The OC Fair

There were too many pictures to put in my last post, so I saved one of my favorite activities for a post all its own! Mom took Me, Jamie, Corrie, Curran, and Luke to the Orange County Fair! From the minute we pulled up I was exicted....how could I not be when I saw the giant ferris wheel? There was a ton of other things to do besides the rides though.

Luke and Jamie

Curran and Corrie

The fair has TONS of animals! We went through barn after barn of different animals (always stopping to scrub our hands down afterwards). It was cool to be able to pet the animals and see them up close.

Me and the crew hanging with the goats.

Jamie helped me get up a little closer to pet this cow.

Luke got close and personal with the little piggies.

Corrie digs the rooster.

My Mom really talked up the pig races before we got to the fair, so we made sure we didn't miss them. We got a big bowl full of homemade potato chips and headed over to the pig race arena. This pig was bacon, or spare ribs, or hambone...or something like that.

We are getting ready to cheer on our favorite pigs. There were a few races and a couple of us picked out winners. And yes, that is a cup of ketchup in Luke's hand:)

We happened upon a magic show in the middle of the fair grounds and stopped to watch. Corrie was chosen to help with a rope trick. She makes a cute assistant, don't you think?

Then it was on to the rides. Everyone got to chose 2. When I saw this giant slide, and found out I was tall enough, I had to pick it!

It was an awesome ride....whithe my hands up all the way! I also chose the ferris wheel, one of my favorites.

Curran and Corrie were super brave and went on this spinning ride where you spin so fast you stick to the walls. They loved it! But Mom kept talking about how it would make her barf:)

Luke and Jamie went on the haunted house ride. After seeing this grizzly guy outside I was glad I wasn't going on it!

All the kids chose this rollercoaster for their second ride. I wasn't tall enough, but it looked really fun.

We all chilled out with some fresh squeezed lemonade to end the day. It was such a fun day that I can't stop talking about. Thanks for sharing it with me sister's Jamie and Corrie, and brother's Curran and Luke.

My Adopted Brothers and Sisters

For two weeks this summer I knew what it was like to have 2 sisters and 2 brothers. Mom and I went to stay with Jamie, Corrie, Curran, and Luke while their parents went on a cruise with Paga. I had the most AWESOME time! We went to the beach a lot, played Break the Ice and Buckaroo, and watched morning cartoons in bed. Here are some other fun things we did:

SLIP 'N SLIDE!!! This was such a fun day. We broke out the slip 'n slide and Mom filled up 100 water balloons. It turned the back yard into a swampy marshland....but it was so much fun!

Luke is getting ready to soak someone with these balloons...or maybe pop them with his teeth.

After a while Mom set up an obstacle course we ran through and got timed. It started with hitting a soaker ball off the baseball tee.

Curran sure could blast that ball!

Then started the running. Run, Jamie, Run!

You had to run through the swampy marshland,

Around the slip 'n slide-

To the Spongebob Frisbee.

After, and only after, you got Spongebob through the cones could you move on.

You then had to grab 2 water balloons from the cooler and put them under your armpits. Without touching them with your hands you then had to go down the slip 'n slide.

If a balloon came out of your armpit, you had 5 seconds added on your time.

It was so fun but by the end we were wet and cold and the backyard was flooded!

Another day we made delicious frozen lemonade from real lemons! The other kids did most of the work and Mom blended it up in the blender.

Sticky, but DELICIOUS!

The girls went to camp for part of the second week, so it was just me and the boys. We went to the Angels game on plaid hat night!

A great time was made even better when the man sitting behind us bought us red rope and blue cotton candy!

You can tell that Luke and I really loved it! Mom was so distracted by the sticky mess that she narrowly missed getting hit by a fowl ball! Instead, the nice man who bought us all the treats got hit with it right in the chest! He wasn't too hurt, but it was a close one!

We also went on my first bowling outing! I had so much fun and haven't stopped talking about it since. The bumpers made it a little easier for me...even though I threw it down the wrong lane a couple times and slipped trying to walk down the lane:)

It was such a fun 2 weeks! I told Mom I need lots of brothers and sisters so I can have fun all the time.

Beach Time

Just steps from our campsite was the beach! We went every day after my nap when the fog burned off. We did lots of fun stuff at the beach. There weren't waves that I could really surf so....

...I took up boogie boarding!

It was pretty fun because I could do it all by myself! The only down side was the water was pretty cold so I didn't stay in too long.

Dad went out with Uncle Jeff every day paddle boarding. He was a little shaky the first day, but by the end of the trip he was pretty good!

I had a nice deep pit dug for me every day as well. I spent hours upon hours in that pit. I played, I rode the boogie board into it, and I peed in it!

This is what Buzz called the "Death Drop". He could do it standing up of course, but I thought it was a little safer sitting down.

It was pretty steep!

We brought my Buzz Lightyear kite along to see if we could fly it at the beach (since we have had no luck at home). Unfortunately it was missing a couple pieces. Even after dad rigged it with some string it still didn't do so hot.

This is about all it did before making nose dive after nose dive into the sand. I guess this McClellan family was not cut out for kite flying!

We don't have the pictures from Aunt Jen yet, but one thing I can't stop talking about is the platform. A little ways out into the ocean is a platform you can jump off of. The whole crew (minus Mom) swam out to it, while I rode on the boogie board. Then we took turns jumping off. It was lots of fun!

Every day I ask Mom when we can go camping again. I LOVED every minute of it. Thanks Uncle Jeff and Aunt Jen for letting us tag along!

Biking Around Camp...and Beyond

"You want to go on bike ride wid me?" is the question I asked repeatedly all day....starting at 6:30 a.m. Aunt Shalaine and Uncle Cort were nice enough to loan us their awesome bikes for the trip, not to mention the cool seat on the front that I got to ride in. We road our bikes every day, a few times a day. I LOVED it!!!!! Here are some of the places we went:

Tar Beach. There is all this tar seeping out of the hillside into the sand. It is a pretty cool sight!

Here is Kate and I with our poking sticks. You can poke the tar, glob it on your stick, and chase people with it:)

Dad and Blake were also enjoying the tar poking. Blake was headed up to the top of the hill where it was oozing out. Unfortunately there was also a giant dead bird up there! Gross...but cool.

I Love Tar! Until it got on my shoe and we had to throw away these flip flops at the end of the trip.

We also biked to the Seal Sanctuary.

Brooke and I are looking down over the cliffs at...

tons of seals lounging on the beach. They were fun to watch, especially as they would swim in from the ocean and flop up on the sand.

Some days we biked into town. One of my favorite places to go was The Spot. It was a yummy burger joint with delicious fries and chicken. Aunt Jen treated me to a sticky guy from the quarter machines.

Yummy lunch at the Spot. Too bad I couldn't enjoy it because a ton of policemen were having lunch there. What's wrong with policemen? you ask. Well Mom thought it was funny one day to tell me that the police were going to get me if I was bad. Ever since then they make me really nervous. I couldn't eat a thing until all the cops left!

We also biked around the camp grounds and along the bluffs of the beach. I think I loved it so much because I didn't have to do any of the pedaling and got all of the benefits! It was definitely one of my favorite parts of camping.