On The Pontoon

In August we ventured to Jess and Doug's lake to hang out with them for the weekend!!  Kids had a great time......as did the adults!!  The weather was great, so we soaked up some rays on the pontoon and at the sandbar!!

Mason ready to set sail.

 Kids are all excited!!

 These two together are awesome!!

Time for some tubing!!  Mason was the first one to go.......Jess told me that Mae has never tubed before, so technically, Mason tubed before his big sister!!  Way to go big guy!!  :}

Ella's up......

Now Mae's turn.......she never wanted off!  Joe had to call it quits because by now his bottom had had enough!!  lol

This girl cracks me up........

And now it's time to stop motorboatin and throw Joe off the tube!!  Pretty sure Doug enjoyed this!!

Uncle Doug teaching the kiddos to operate the boat!!

At the sandbar it was time for mud facials!!

Country Concert 2012

Then there was Country Concert!!  Joe and I haven't been here in quite a few years, but always said if Zac Brown Band was there, we were going!!  So we went with his sisters and their spouses.  A good time was had by all!!  :}  We didn't by any means 'rough it' during the 100 degree weather we had in July.  I made sure we took the generator for AC and we filled the water tank for showers!!  I have my limits people.  :}

We opted to purchase front row seats for ZBB........Best.Purchase.Ever!  We love this band.

Disclaimer: please excuse the cell phone pictures.......thanks!  :}

'Roughing It'

At the end of June a horrible storm ripped through our county, and half of the US!!  We were very fortunate compared to some!  We had 2-3 square of shingles and tar paper torn off our house and a square off the garage........both resulted in water damage inside the house and garage!  We've finally gotten a new roof put on and are slowly getting the damages inside fixed!  The storm left us without power for quite a while........so we did what any normal family would do......we generated our camper and camped in our driveway!!  Much easier to generate that as opposed to the whole house.

There were bonfires......

and sparklers......because it was almost the Fourth of July!  The moon was soooo bright most nights, made for some cool pictures.

Maybe 4 days after we lost power (and were still out) the campground we camp at got their power restored........so we pulled out of the driveway and went there!!  Always a good time with our good friends!  They were without power at home as well.......so as soon as we got word about the campground, we both headed out!!

Yogi in June!!

I'm back!!  After way too long gone from the blog, I will attempt to catch up before the end of the year!!  :}

Waaaaay back in June, we went camping with our friends at 1 of the many Jellystone Parks, aka Yogi Bear Campground!!  The kids had a blast!  There was a splash pad, 3 (I think) pools, water slides, 2 huge bounce pads........the kiddos were in heaven!  My kids weren't interested in the water slides, but they sure loved the bouncing and the splash pads!!

 And this slide proved to be hazardous to Evan.......

He went down head first and another kid running past the bottom of the slide slammed into Evan's head with his knee and fell down, which in turn caused Evan to become pinned under the water with his face pressed into the concrete!!  He wasn't sure which way was up when he finally resurfaced for air!!  Poor guy.....the next day his whole eye was purple.  Needless to say, he no longer went head first down the slide!