Veggie People

 The kids and I went to the county fair in August.  We got in free just for dressing up veggies to look like people.  We had a great time looking at the animals, checking out the different booths, watching acrobats and magicians, and here J Man is doing Karaoke to a Justin Bieber song.  Free fun, gotta love it.

Rafting Trip

 The Jorgensens invited Dad and me to go on a rafting trip this summer.  It was a dream come true for me.  I loved every minute of it.  Leanne and I love to have fun together.  Here we are being our silly selves.

We Love Grandpa!!!

We love it when Grandpa Baughman drops in.  We are so lucky to have him so close to us.  This is one night when we went out to Applebees with him.  We love you Grandpa.

River Parties

We had a river party almost every day this summer.  I could only put a fraction of the pictures up here.  It was heaven.  I love summer.  It can never come too soon and it will never last long enough!!!

We had to put these two pictures in because Dad doesn't always get to play with us at the river and so when he does we make the most of it. 

The Movies

Our town doesn't have a dollar theater and so our kids don't get out to the movies too much.  Mr. M earned a trip to the movies and invited his friend.  When J Man found out he decided he wanted to use some of his birthday money to go to the movies with them and buy treats for everyone.  I am pretty sure they all thought they had died and gone to heaven!!!  Cars 2 was the flick and a great time was had by all.

Camping and Fishing

We had such a fun camping trip with the Davis's and the Jorgensens this summer.  Here are some of the highlights. 

These troopers woke up before 5 am to fish and came home with more than a dozen.  The ironic thing was that the fish started biting at around 7 am.

Best Buds

The kids had so much fun creating clubs and little spots in the trees that were the girls'  spot or the boys' spot.  There was even a fallen tree that crossed over a creek that was called the bridge to Terabithia.  It was hours of creative fun!!

These were the self appointed guards who were scaring away any would be campers from this spot so that when our friends the Jorgensens showed up they would have a place to camp.

The first hike to some falls.  Mr. M ended up with a rock in the head thanks to Baby R and her lack of good aim.

Leanne and Layne

Fishing with Dad

The Davis family and the Vance crew sharing a gourmet meal.

Fishing at a more reasonable hour (7am)  Everyone came home with at least one fish!!

The second hike to a falls.  This one was wet fun and uphill all the way back!!

After all the friends went home Dad took us on one more waterfall hike.  It was rated difficult.  We ended up hiking too far making it a total of 4 miles up "difficult" hiking.  The next picture shows how much fun that hike was.

Not worth it!!!

Day Camp Volunteer

 I couldn't have been prouder of this 11-year-old scout.  He spent four days of his summer vacation volunteering as a den chief at the local cub scout day camp.  He helped a group of Tiger scouts with their day camp activities and was commended for his kindness and attention toward the little 7-year-olds.  What a great guy you are Mr. M.