Thursday, August 22, 2013

Our Week...

Here are some random pictures of this past week...
Dad and the boys washed and waxed the RV.  It took a few days ;)
My smart Daddy figured out how so remove all the black scum/stains!
Even Caleb helped!

It looked great when we finished.   Almost like new!!!  ;)


Another thing the boys (Thomas, Daniel and Joel) have been doing is making Hula-Hoops!  They spent hours outside making them!  They are going to try to sell them at our local Farmers Market this Saturday.
They assemble them all on their own. After they get the hoops together, the decorate them with colored electrical tape... 


And on top of all that fun, My awesome, amazing, wonderful, handsome brother Greg got back from training last night!!!!  We're so glad to have him home for a few months, we really missed him ;)

It's been a good week so far :)

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Cliff Jumping!!!

About a week ago, Eli, Jake and a few of their friends went cliff jumping at Hauser lake!  They had such good time the first time that they wanted to go again; and there was no way us girls would let them go without taking us this time...
 
 
I can't remember 'giving' Eli my camera to use...   :)
 
Needless to say, we had a pretty good time, LOL!!!!
 
I liked the rope swing better then the cliff jumping; I felt a little more safe ;)
 
Some of the guys got really brave and jumped from the highest place they could find!  about 25ft. (?)
I thought they were crazy!  I think if I did that; I would probably look down, faint, and fall off anyways!
 
No...none of us girls went that high.
 
 
We figured we couldn't end the night without ice cream!  So we stopped at the local A&W and got a .99 snack...

Everything went really well!!! Thankfully no one got hurt.
We really had a blast!  We already talked about going back in a few days ;)

Monday, August 12, 2013

10 already?!?!?!

Yesterday we celebrated Joel's 10th birthday!
He got to open one of his presents in the morning, which happened to be a starter pack for a new WWII  miniatures game...
Needless to say, he was pretty exited, LOL!!!

That afternoon we went and saw the new Pixar movie 'Planes'!  Secrets never last long in our family, but we managed to keep this from the birthday boy all day!  He never even suspected till we pulled up to the theater. We don't go to the theater very often since it is so expensive for our family (even the matinee), so this was a treat for everyone.   We really enjoyed the movie! It was very cute, perfectly clean, and a great family movie.

Once we got home, Dad started cooking up catfish for dinner!  Gramma came out to celebrate with us, and so did Hannah and baby Dillon!!!!     

It took a while to cook up all that yummy TX catfish, but it was sure worth the wait...yum...
Living in an RV, we don't have the space to have a million people over, or a huge cake. So usually our birthdays look like this ;)
 ...we had run out of propane, so the brownies didn't get done; we just had ice cream instead. 
We try not to do a ton of presents on birthdays, since we try to celebrate the kid and not the 'stuff', so Joel got to open his last present after ice cream.  He thought the Gerber/Bear Gryllis (or whatever) machete was pretty cool... Hey! I would too ;) 
It's hard to believe that my little brother is already 10!!!  I love all my awesome siblings, I just wish they wouldn't grow so fast!!!!        Happy Birthday Joel!!!