Summer Camping

Our family was so blessed to spend a wonderful week camping with great friends. We spent a Monday-Friday camping up on the rim at Woods Canyon Lake. The weather was gorgeous and the scenery was incredible; however to Nikki and I the best thing was the fact that our hubby's cell phones did not work!! ;) We had no agenda except to hike, fish, catch crawdads and enjoy our families. I would say we accomplished all that and then some.

Pastor Dan cooking breakfast one morning .

After breakfast and even before breakfast some mornings several kids went down to the lake and went fishing/crawdad catching with the dads.

Natasha found a Nemo fishing pole and she would stick it in the water and twirl it around and say "ishing, ishing" and she did catch something......

Jay and Dan rented a boat one morning

The kids caught a lot of crayfish we were able to cook up

By Thursday we caught a total of 18 fish for our fish fry.

Taking naps out doors and being carried in the baby pack for hikes Jadon had a great time.

During some down time I taught Joshua and Savannah how to play "war". They really liked it.

I Love this photo. During one of our hikes the girls collected flowers and put them in Joshua's hat.




I taught the kids how to play Left Right Center. We played with donuts.

We survived our 5 mile hike by stopping at the camp store for an ice cream treat.

During the hike we found several Horned Toads.

I have no idea what is going on in this picture but thought it was cute.


Hiking is such hard work!

Cousins Come To Play

My kids love getting together with their cousins, on both sides of the family. Wow I actually just counted and they have 11 cousins. :) Aunt Jutem and kiddos came in town for a few days and we all had a great time hanging out together. They played at the house, we went to Makutu's Island and then spent one afternoon at the pool. It was a lot of fun but always too short!

Chance helping feed Jadon.

Riding bikes in the backyard.

Jadon at Makutu's island

Kids eat cheap Wednesday nights at RainForest so we all went there for dinner.

Hanging out at the pool

Look Who's 8 Months Old

Jadon is growing so much!! He is a very busy little boy who loves to move all around. Last month I was actually worried that he couldn't sit up but now I realize he can and has been able to but he would much rather be crawling. When I sit him down he goes straight to a crawling position! This month Jadon has learned how to pull himself up already and he stands every chance he gets. He pulls up in the pack-n-play, the couch and chairs. It is crazy. I think he might be walking by 10 months. He is a very happy little boy who loves getting attention from everyone he will "click" or cough at us just to get us to acknowledge him.

He finally got his first biter biscuit and loved it. I have a picture of each of the kids first eating one of these. They make such a mess! LOL They love them.