Memorial day swimming

After our camping trip over memorial weekend, we headed to Kris's parents to celbrate the holiday. Sunday evening we went for a walk and Bree was SUPER excited to get to hold (or try anyway)Milo's leash on the walk!

Papa Steve always opens their pool for memorial day and this year was a perfect day for time by the pool.

Bree, Kyra and Adrie

Griffin

Crew

Bree loved having Kyra help her float through the water

Adrie Lou Bell

Griffin, Bree and Crew

Bree really wanted Milo to join her in the pool

Bree and dad

Lindey and Kyra

Mazie, Kyra and Ellie

Adrie and Madi in their giraffe print suits

After swimming we had a fabulous BBQ......Caitlyn prepared some of the shishkabobs-her first time ever touching raw meat.This grill is serious business!

We played outside some more.....

Madi gathered up all the towels....

and we ate lots of GOOD food!

Bree was sitting next to Griffin in the highchairs and we he got down she reached over and stole his corn!

Memorial Weekend Camping

Every memorial weekend a bunch of neighbors/friends go camping. We hadn't been for a few years and so we decided to go up and stay friday through sunday. The girls were SO excited to camp and sleep in the tent and Kris was excited to take his truck camping-since the last time we went camping he didn't have a truck to take. There were about 10 families that went and we had a great time-even through all the rain! Kyra and Adrie were excited to be unpacking but their friend Jaxon didn't look very excited.

John's trailer entertained the kids for hours-they even turned it into a stage for shows at one point.
Kyra and Jessi doing a little number on the "stage"

Bree and Alex spent lots of time on it.

Bree and the boys (Griffin, Alex,and Ryan)

The kids had a lot of fun with games like UNO.....

Frisbee.......

Tag and hide and seek.....
Kate's excersaucer.......
Bubbles (these bubble blowers are the best I've ever found-thanks to Tysen for giving them to us)........and building things with the firewood-like this stage/bridge.

Bree and Shaley

Bree loved sitting in the grass and playing with the rock piles-she even tried eating the grass and flowers many times.

Adrie being silly in the tent.

One of my very favorite parts about camping is sitting around the campfire! There is something so mezmorizing about the fire! Apparently Adrie doesn't share my love for the fire because she spent most of the time hiding from it like this....

I don't know why but she was REALLY worried about it and wouldn't get very close. She would sit so far away that it wasn't keeping her warm.

Kyra on the other hand loved it! She said her favorite part about camping was making smores by the fire!

Dad and Bree

We managed to get Adrie a little closer to the fire if we were holding her but she was still very nervous about it.

I think Bree's favorite part of the camping was the DIRT! She loved playing in it and apparantly trying to eat it....No, it is not oreos or chocolate...it's DIRT!

Bree got pretty dirty but I think her friend Griffin took the cake with his marshmallow mess!

Kyra, Adrie and Avea
Each morning Kris got up and made a nice warm breakfast and Kyra thought it was so fun to help him cook! I like camping because Kris does most of the cooking!

The last day we were there we went on a little hike

and threw some rocks in the river.

view from our little hike We had a great time but boy is it nice to come home and SHOWER!