While out in California, we visited Yosemite.  We rented a house with my brother and and his family.  It was beautiful!!  The deck was awesome and it had a hot tub. 

The kids had a blast playing in the outdoor shower. 

Here is N and Cousin A running in Yosemite Valley:

And Baby B runny away in Yosemite Valley:

We stayed in Yosemite for 4 days and then headed home from there.  We decided to go through the park rather than back track waaaay back and around it.  BAD IDEA.  I thought we were going to die.  We curved around and around through the mountains for 3 1/2 hours.  I was having a hard time breathing.  I was clutching the door and the arm rest the whole time.  And I couldn't take my eyes off the road.  And I wasn't the one driving!!  But I still felt that if I wasn't watching, we would fall off.  And if we fell off, nobody would ever find us because we would be reduced to rubble and noone even knew we took that way home.  Ugh.  And then we went through Tioga pass (or something sounding like that) and that was like 2 or 3 S curves in a row with a mountain straight up one side of you and a drop off on the other.  No room for error.  I was nearly in tears when I saw it coming.  It was unreal.  But there was a really pretty lake up there (half frozen still as we were up nearly 10,000 ft). 

It was so sad to leave my family.  My and my brother have always been close and now me and my sil are really close.  And of course my sweet niece:

I have to pray really hard that they will get to come visit for Christmas.    Ok, gotta go before I start bawling....