So backing up a bit- last Friday we went to Greg and Mary's and babysat all the potluck kids... there was lots of dress-up and shrieking and raccoon watching. A good time was had by all.
Bob sent me flowers for our anniversary, and I got him a new bonsai tree. Meet Bonsai San II. He's quite cute and has a little pond with a fisherman underneath his boughs.
Our anniversary was on Sunday... I made Bob wear his wedding tie to church. The rest of the day was not that great, honestly. I think I just let my expectations get too high, but the girls weren't having the best day to start with and Sundays are never easy. We went to Avanti's for supper; Cecily was acting really squirrely, hardly ate her supper and tipped over backwards in her chair, Emmy was grumpy, hard to keep happy, and loud. Woot. The rest of the evening was about as bad.
Some nights I can not wait to put them to bed... they're so sweet when they're finally sleeping. *grin*
I've been watching craigslist, varagesale, and garage sales for a bike for Cecily without any luck. The neighbor girl has a princess bike with a basket shaped like a carriage and a matching helmet that she's been coveting. So she went push-mower shopping with Bob and they came home with this.
It's a flower bike and her helmet has butterflies. She likes it a lot, even though it doesn't have princesses on it. "Gavin and his girl will be so excited to see Cecily's new bike!"
Friday the girls and I went to school... and then came home and packed up to go camping! Yay! Bob took the day off, so we left as soon as we could. Not quite soon enough for Cecily who didn't stop asking when we were leaving until we left the driveway. And then we stopped to buy ice and she asked if we were at the camping. *sigh* We took her bike so she insisted on wearing her helmet and promptly fell asleep like this.
Emmy was just happy to be outside.
We were the first ones to get to Moraine View so we got our pick of tent spots.
Cecily got to explore and then everyone else showed up and the real fun began...
setting up tents...
And a really big tent! We had lots of tents and food. Wysses know how to do food.
Kacie came! All the way from Indiana!
We had a delicious supper of brats, hot dogs, and watermelon. The watermelon was cut up with a fillet knife (never been used on a fish before) because we obviously haven't done this enough yet and didn't have a big knife along. Lots of little knives in Matt's tackle box O'knives and multi-tools, but no watermelon knife.
We sang around the campfire and then I tried to get the girls to bed. Emmy fell asleep pretty quickly, but Cecily really wanted me to stay next to her and I really wanted to go sit by the fire and talk to my cousins for once... *sigh* It got pretty cold over night. I had a hard time sleeping because I was worried about the girls being too cold (they were both fine) and because I was cold. We had Emmy between us and she kept kicking the covers down so Bob and I were cold all night. Plus the birds, and the train that came through; we didn't sleep very soundly.
Little miss was up bright and early and a happy little camper.
Cecily was not ready to get up yet. Right after I took the picture, she pulled the sleeping bag over her face and slept like that for a half an hour. *grin*
Streitmatter's brought bacon and eggs and pancakes for breakfast.
It was pretty fantastic. Cecily even got a snowman pancake.
Our fearless organizer. Hehe.
The girls loved all the attention and people to play with them. I'm not sure why, but they were on stumps and a picnic table to play Frisbee.
Just chilling in the Cecily Rose.
We all went over to the boat launch/ picnic area/ playground for lunch. Emmy loves to swing. She will point and yell until you do want she wants...
Cecily got her first ride on Uncle Matt's boat. She loved it.
Emmy discovered the twisty slide. (That's Oreo on her mouth.) She loved it. And wanted to go down again and again pretty much by herself.
Cecily and Tate went down it too.
Oh, how I love dirt and outside!
After lunch we mostly hung out by the tents. Shelly and I went for a walk with Emmy. We found Uncle Jakey fishing.
Emmy would point to dandelions and yell until Shelly picked them for her. Then she would drop it and do it again.
Clayton was fishing too- he caught a fish!
They filleted it (Cecily was very intrigued) and he fried it for pre-supper appetizers.
There was another group in the group camp area- they seemed to be a little bit hippy-dippy... They came over and said they were going to be dancing around the maypole later and said we could join or come watch. It sounded fun until we overheard some of their conversations... yeah... they appeared to be some sort of neo-pagans so we figured the maypole was probably not innocent fun and we didn't participate. And leave it to Kacie- while they were dancing "guys, I feel like we should sing a hymn or something!" So we did. How Great Thou Art. *grin* I love my family.
For supper we had campfire packets and the rest of the food.
And then we packed up and came home. Mur. Emmy was not happy to be in the van after being outside and free for so long.
I put both girls straight into the tub when we got home. They were so dirty... there was a ring in the tub when they were done.
It was a good weekend... although I can tell the girls are missing all the extra attention. Cecily told me after church that "sometime we can go to the camping again with Tate and Kyle and Kacie and Lena and Shelly and..... and sleep in our tent!"
Blessings.
