Springbrook 2010 (part 2)

Day 2, Saturday am.

Danny demanded volunteered to do breakfast for everyone. And boy are we glad he did!!

Biscuits and gravy, eggs, 3 or 4 different types of jams and jellies, sausage, milk, chocolate milk, OJ, coffee.....the works!


Because they forgot a key component to their camp stove, breakfast making was moved to mom and dad's camper kitchen.


While he cooked, we all waited...anticipation thick in the air.


Mostly. :-)




The spread.









After breakfast, we cleaned up our mess, and a bunch of us headed up the dam to check out the lake.




Sam needed another swim...her energy is non stop!!!


Isaac's little legs had quite a time getting up the hill!


The view back down towards the campground. The place was packed!! 80 degree weather in October...on a weekend....with no rain forecasted. Doesn't happen often!


The trees were just starting to get some good fall color to them.


Brandon was busy building away with some old tinker toys Jim and Joyce brought with them.


Isaac watched, waiting for pieces to fall on the ground. :-)


Danny soaking up some sun.


Steve catching some z's.

Later in the afternoon, we were talking about Sam not wanting to jump off the docks while playing fetch. We all dared Mot to jump off the dock, with the hopes that she'd follow.

Sam ended up going by herself...but we did finally convince Mot that he still needed to jump....for entertainment sake if nothing else. I took some video of it...so there aren't any stills (at least on MY camera).


Putting his shoes back on after the swim.






Lauren playing in the creek that runs along side our campsites.


Steve and I took a walk at one point in the afternoon. It was just way too nice not to!






Our cousin Tony arrived on the scene just as lunch was being served. Amazing timing! :-)


Hot dogs over a fire....is there anything better?

We spent the rest of the afternoon hanging out around the campsite talking, joking, and having a great time!!!!









Kevin and Kerri made chili for everyone for dinner that night. It was marvelous!!





Before Tony, Jim, Joyce and Scott left, we wrangled up a friend in the campground to take a group picture.




What are they doing?


Ah yes...'tis football season. :-)



We all played some cards for a while, then mom, Inny, Steve and I took a walk around the lake.

In the dark.

It's tradition, don't you know.

When we returned, Danny and Mot had already gone to bed....so we followed suit.

(to be cont)

Springbrook 2010 (part 1)

On the second weekend of October, every year, the family (and lots of friends) gather together at Springbrook state park for a camping family reunion.

It's been going on for years, and years, and years. (I think we were calling last year the 40th anniversary)

This year we decided to be adventurous and take the hounds along. We knew Isaac was going to be OK. He's a really well behaved old man.

Sam, on the other hand, well she was going to be the chore. Her puppy energy is too much to handle in our house....let alone in a tent camping! :-)



You can tell they were both excited to go!!!



After we got our tent (and the boys tents) set up....Mot, myself, and the dogs went over to mom and dads site for lunch.

Then, we changed clothes and headed to the lake.


It wasn't until Mot got IN the boy's tent that he realized without the rain fly, it wasn't much of a private changing room. :-)


Sam, of course, LOVED having the lake so close.


Isaac could have taken or left it. Emmy seemed thrilled....but Houston...poor guy just wasn't too sure about that whole water thing.


Play time in the lake was too much for Emmy and Houston.


And Isaac!!!!


Sam probably dreamt about it all night! :-)

We all pretty much hid from the heat the rest of the afternoon.

For those of you that weren't reading this blog last year.....on the second weekend of October in 2009, we had to cut the weekend short due to snow. Crazy eh????

The boys arrived later that night.


What is this, you might ask? It's the newest addiction. Danny brought a HUGE container of candy corn and peanuts mix. The perfect combination was 3 peanuts, 2 candy corn. Heaven! :-)


After the boys got all of their gear unloaded, the 4 of us sat down to play a hand or two of cards.


Only they would bring an actual table lamp and table cloth. We had our own little bug-free world in that screen tent all weekend! :-)

(to be cont)

Mostly Wordless Wednesday: Well....alrighty then.

I took this picture of two random blocks sitting on a picnic table.



Wonder what my boss would say if I made it my computer wallpaper?? :-)

Mostly Wordless Wednesday: Tell us how you really feel

As the vehicle made a left turn, I noticed huge, yellow stickers in the shape of lemons all along the side.