camping...

Ryan and the boys before they left for their rustic camping adventure!  The girls and I met up with them in Traverse City along with the rest of my family.

Ryan fearing drowning while doing the dishes? 

lots of fun times hanging out with aunts, uncles, and cousins...

and of course grama, she is the best story teller, the kids love her stories by the campfire each night!

eating lots of junk!

Playing cards with grampa, is always a fun time!

we went mini golfing...

and rode bikes, this is Anaya's bike which Lucy learned to ride, it helps having pavement, we have none!

Oh and lots of fishing! 

I love how Lucy is keeping her eyes on that fish!

a little shopping on the rainy day...

I think these two were trying to catch raindrops, but one never knows for sure with these guys!

Josiah was thirsty!

look at these guys!  So dirty, and yet so cute! 

this is how they got that way, wallowing in the dirt!

It was all good, but not all clean, fun...

the dirt...

apparently to some,

made it much more fun!

Thankfully they clean up well!

Camping...

We went camping with several families from church at Jellystone in Silver Lake, {yes less than 5 minutes from our house,} which was AWESOME because I could and did go home to shower!!!  We had a couple of hard rains, but...

our new tent held up well in the rain!  We had a camper, but mice ate it!  Seriously, it was destroyed by mice and we had to part with it.  So we bought a tent!  {yikes!} We haven't camped for a long time, and I must say it is not my favorite thing to do ~however~ we had a great time, even with the wet weather!

We did have plenty of sunshine too, and the kids had fun fishing in the pond.  Daddy put a hook on Anaya's pole and she got to fish too, she had so much fun, she even dared to touch the worms and the fish {I am not surprised, she is one spunky girl!}

Anaya LOVED Yogi and Boo Boo Bear, she marched right up there and gave them hugs!  It was funny to see all of the kids a certain age range loved Yogi, the ones younger... not so much and the ones older were too 'cool' to give hugs!

I love this picture!  Ty was not about to get too close to Boo Boo no matter how hard he tried!  Too cute!

Check out these darling kiddos!  We spent a few days with families that are very dear to us and had a really fun time!  I may even be persuaded into going camping again sometime!{Especially if I can go home to shower!}