Luke really loved the fire. He is mostly safe with it, but still makes me nervous!
This is the tree that the woodpeckers were pecking in while we ate our food.
The kids really loved the fire everyone would stand around and just watch the fire together it was so much fun!
This one goes down in the books. This is when Isaac and Rachel were teaching us how to sing the bazooka song and the Hermie wormy song. They were so hilarious I will never forget Isaac's dance moves.
I love the laid-back family time that you get when you're camping.
Noah sat there and slept all through all the songs and everything it was so funny.
Love me some cute Erika.
She caught a Caterpillar and kept it in this bottle the whole time.
This is the campout that Jack kept himself busy the whole time. He played in the dirt so much. He was just covered in dust and dirt. It was fun to watch him play with the cup and dumping the rocks and sand out. But what a mess.
He sure wore himself out
Nate top of the kids how to start a fire with Flint and Steele it was so fun. Charity really got into that. They were all professional firestarters by the time we were done camping.
It was so fun to see how much Erika had taken to Hannah by the end of the camp out. They were best buds. I hope I got enough pictures of them spending time together.
Everybody really got into the stick whittling.
Luke climbed pretty high in the tree.
Heather was so cute with Jack wanting to hold him and play with him even though he wasn't being very social. I think he finally warmed up to her near the end. Guess we'll have to see how it goes next time.
Our "hike" was a great success. The kids had a lot of fun climbing on the logs and playing in the water.
Everybody about Jack.
Strike a pose
He's getting so grown up.
Nate and Rob talked all the kids into dunking themselves in the freezing cold water. It was a lot of fun to watch them torture themselves. We all enjoyed it.
Luke and Rachel spent a lot of time together. They seem to have a lot of fun and enjoyed being seven-year-olds together.
I still can't believe they were able to break the sticks like this it looks so painful.
And more staring at the fire :-).
Sleepyhead.
We were testing the theory about boiling water in a paper cup in a fire and sure enough the cup did not start melting until the water had completely burned out.
I love this man!
And this one too :-)
These pictures are all out of order now I'm not sure what happened when I was uploading them but either way sure they are.
Here they are with Nate's fish that he caught.
Kelly was really anxious to get the fish herself.
She had been looking forward to this part at the mountain man rendezvous but they didn't have her do it!! She decided she would do it at our campout.
Eeew! Gross!
Look at her go.
Okay then you take over
I love how everyone's just standing around watching
Now it's Charity's turn.
Ulgh!!
Kelly was so nice to make Jack's sign for his birthday.
Apparently these guys can't get enough of the birthdays.
Here is our big one-year-old!
Loving the attention!
And the balloons
He was so cute and happy all day
He really loved all the attention.
Everything goes in the mouth still
He was a little apprehensive about the whoopie cushion. But Brad converted him.
I loved watching him open his present! He was so excited about it and couldn't wait to get on it.
I think his big brothers and sisters were as excited as he was to play with his new toy
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
Luke started second grade this year. He has Mrs. Featherstone.
Kelly is in fifth grade this year and has Mr. Paver and Mrs. Masterson.
Here's our big sixth-grader Charity has Mrs. Johnson this year.
And our big third-grader, Bradley, has Ms. Wood.
Look at my big kids I can't believe how much they've grown up! I don't know I had to wait a whole week for his first day but it eventually came.
Here's his little monster cake. I had been wanting to make this cake for a long time and thought it fitting for his birthday. I didn't put any teeth on it until Kelly mentioned that it would be cute with teeth that look like Jack's with the space in the middle. I think she's right.
And we had to have a small cake for Jack to eat and smash in his face. So I made this cute little car cake.
He had a pretty good turnout for his birthday we were all very happy with the guess that came.
He wasn't quite sure what to do with it
But he figured it out
FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN
What a cute little guy. Noah has Mrs. Piper this year.
He was so brave and when in all by himself even though we all knew he was a little bit nervous he was so brave.
BALLOONS DOWN THE STREET
One morning we woke up to the sounds of hot air balloons filling up. So we ran outside and got a closer look at the balloons launching from our park down the street. It was so cool.
STATE FAIR 2013
Kelly put her art in the state fair again this year so we made sure to get tickets and go. This has become a family tradition that we all love and look forward to. We had a really good time this year the kids all got to go on rides and we watched a couple of shows it was pretty fun.u
They got to touch a Moonrock.
Here's Kelly's work of art
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