Steven and Chrystal Tandberg Family: Vacation at Charlottesville

June 21, 2008

Vacation at Charlottesville

We had a rather sudden opportunity to take a family vacation to Charlottesville. A member of our ward offered a Time Share that his parents weren't going to be able to make it to, to us at a really good deal. So we went to a resort near Charlottesville and had a really great family vacation!

We got to stay at a cabin right on a lake. It was beautiful!

The view from our front porch.

There was a cute playground with a little play cabin where Mariah had a great time playing.

The resort had a kiddie pool, which Mariah thoroughly enjoyed!

Steven helped Mariah learn to play put-put golf on a fun mini-golf course.

We took a ride on a paddle boat from the marina.

Mariah got to ride a pony! She was so good! We tried to go the day before, but they weren't giving rides. We tried to go pet the horses and she wouldn't go near them because they were stinky. It was a good thing they weren't as stinky the next morning when she got to ride them!

We also got to play games down at the lodge. It was such a fun place to stay!

1 comment:

julie Tandberg said...: This looks like such a fun vacation. Itis great seeing all of you.; June 28, 2008 at 6:32 PM

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Mariah says the darndest things...

Mariah certainly has interesting designations for things. Today she asked me for clean milk. I was getting Lylah some of her rice milk and evidently Maraih didn't want it. She pointed to the regular 1% milk and said that was clean milk. I asked her why it was clean, she told me, "because I said it was!" I really don't know where she got that!

At dinner Mariah told me she wanted dry water. I asked her what dry water was (after I could stop chuckling behind my hands) and she said water that came from our glass pitcher was dry water. I never quite figured out why that was dry water, although we do usually put ice cubes in it when we use the pitcher. hmmm... dry water...

The other day Mariah asked me for kid beans. At first I thought she wanted green beans because she loves them and could eat a whole can by herself. But she didn't want those. I eventually found out that she wanted kidney beans. Lylah likes to eat kidney beans, straight from the can and Mariah was jealous and wanted some.

We use sliced cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches, now Mariah calls that cheese "girl cheese."

One of my favorite things Mariah said was about a year ago. She came to me with a very concerned look on her face, "Mommy why doesn't the table have clothes on?" I had taken the tablecloth off and hadn't put another one on yet and she was worried about it.

When Lylah was a couple months old she got a hold of Mariah's hand and tried to put it in her mouth. Mariah laughed and said, "Mommy, Lylah is trying to eat the elbows on my hand!" Now if that is not a good way to descibe knuckles, I don't know what is!

Steven was trying to help Mariah learn how to catch the ball. He would throw the ball and she would look at him and miss it. He told her to keep her eye on the ball. She gave Steven a funny look and literally put her eye on the ball. Needless to say, we both started laughing.

We went hiking last week on Steven's day off. We were just getting going up a hill into the trees when Mariah turned to Steven and said, "Daddy I want the car." I didn't realize we were raising such a city girl. Looks like we need to get back out west soon!