More Camping Pics

JoLynn finally caught her fish.  (With Uncle Blake's assistance.)  She was so proud!  He actually caught it and let her reel it in.  What a guy!

Shae, enjoying her ride.

The Wagenmans!

Me and my Sistas.  Fhew - we look SIZZLIN!

Camping At Big Lake

Okay, so just remember that no one in their right mind wears make up while camping, so if you are of a weak constitution, you may want to skip this one.  

You have been warned.

oh, the waiting!!..............

This little girl thinks it's time to start walking.  I'm sure she'll master it while I'm gone at YW camp this week and I'll miss the whole thing :(.  That's right - I get to go camping 2 weeks in  a row!  If camping with 3 girls is hard, I can't wait to experience it with 29 girls!

Bring it on.

Megan and Tyler catching some zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Da Boys with da babies

the craft tent!

hard at work

check out those Grandpa pants on Tyler!  

He is the YUMMIEST little boy ever!

Claire and JoLynn hangin' in the hammock

Hailey adopted this inch worm and named it "Ticklish".  The poor thing was squished, dropped, kicked, pinched, shoved into a dozen different "homes", and lost about 20 times, but the little guy was miraculously still alive on the last day.  He was a soldier to the end.  The "end" meaning when he mysteriously disappeared while the girls were on a scavenger hunt.

Good bye brave Ticklish...we won"t forget you!

Reel Fun

We just got back from camping with my Merrell family at Big Lake.  It was loads of fun!  It was so pretty up there too!   But whoever added camping to the vacation category never camped with 3 babies and 3 little girls.  Basically we packed the entire contents of our house into boxes, bags, and containers, drove it into the mountains, and squeezed it into a tent for the week.   Fhew, camping is a lot of work!  But among all the cooking, washing, keeping my crawling baby out of the dirt, trips to the "bathroom", and yelling my kids' names every 30 seconds to make sure they weren't wandering off too far, we did manage to have some fun.  We had a craft tent for the little girls where there was lots of giggling and creating, we played pick up sticks rock band (a game invented by my brother Blake), and we went fishing.  I'll have pictures to post soon.  (I know the suspense is palpable!)  But speaking of fishing, Jake and Megan turned us on to this little nugget of funny: