Monday, August 18, 2008

Family Camp 2008

Cory and I
Justin and Andrea

The guys making breakfast

Ella, Alex, Jackson, Ryan and Caden
Tyler, Cole and Alex

Caden, Ella and Alex playing in the "sand" at the campsite

Ella's "sand"... she was convinced she could make a sandcastle with this!

Strike a pose
Tyler
What's that monkey doing in the tree?

At the lake

Cole trying to get Justin, amazingly he failed everytime...


Alex and Ella..."will you marry me?"
Alex has such a twinkle in his eye when he looks at Ella. We're sure they'll marry someday!

Doesn't Brenton look happy?

The guys having some boat time

Hope you're enjoying your smore my sweet boy!

We had our first camping adventure as a family this last weekend. When we arrived it was around 100 degrees and I thought we were all going to melt that night as the 7 of us tried to sleep in our tent. Thankfully, we did not melt and Saturday morning my friend, Andrea and I, walked our coffee pot over to a site with electricity and made our morning pot of coffee... you might have a problem if you can't go a weekend without coffee! We had so much fun watching the kids play in the "sand", aka dirt, at the campsite, playing at the lake and having fun talks around the campfire. The final pictures are of Caden on our last night, he so badly wanted to make smores and we ran out of time after the nights activities. He fell asleep in his chair, but before falling completely asleep, he opened his eyes and said, "I want a smore." His eyes then rolled back into his head and he was out. I didn't want him to feel like he completely missed out so being the kind mom that I am, I placed a smore on his chest, stuck a marshmallow to his lip and snapped some pictures... On the way home we asked the kids if they'd want to do it again. They all said yes so I guess they had a good time too!

5 comments:

Eryn said...

Yay! You've arrived to blogland!

The Browns...do I know them? JK.

meleea said...

wahooo! i am so excited you took the plunge! love the family picture at the top - such a beautiful family. camping looks like a success!

Valerie said...

Glad you had fun (which is somewhat relative in mom world). We will have to have that talk sometime since it didn't happen at camp ;-)

Trish said...

Yay, I found you!

Welcome to blogland. I am excited to be able to keep up with you and your amazing family this way!!

I love the family camp pictures, it looks like hot, dirty, sticky, bug infested fun! I wimped out at the last minute, deciding that I didn't want to go without Dave (he had to work) so the boys and I went to the beach for the weekend instead!

Kelli said...

Hey Mer!
I'm happy to started a blog! It makes it so much easier to keep up with friends that I don't get to to talk to often enough...hugs!!! It was fun camping next to you! Thanks for not eat'n our chickens when they got loud...lol