Camping and Boating with the Kynaston's!

Over the weekend, we went camping and boating with the Kynaston's...its great having friends with a boat! The weather was beautiful and pretty warm...perfect weather to be out on the lake! We camped up by Fremont Lake, in which our camping involves bringing up our RV. Camping is the best when you have running water and a toilet! (Especially when you are camping with little girls who have to go potty a few times during the night.) The first night up at our campsite, Travis and Michelle made dinner. Prime Rib, Potatoes and Carrot Cake...all done in the dutch oven. They were practicing for the county fair's dutch oven cook off...I will be a guinea pig anytime! The girls played in the woods, in the dirt by the campsite and collected moths...so by the end of the night, they were pretty filthy. Yeah for being able to take a bath...another major plus for having an RV!

Karlee is only unhappy because she had to come inside for a bath...she could of played outside all night!
Beautiful blue eyes amongst the dirt!

The next day we got to go out on the boat. I LOVE being out on the lake! The girls had so much fun on the boat and tubing on the lake. This was the first time they got to be in the tubes by themselves. They were attached pretty close to the boat and Travis barely had the boat going for my sake...but they thought they were pretty big and had a blast!




Shelby thought she was a pretty good boat driver! We were driving back to our campsite by the lake and she thought she was steering by herself and didn't ever figure out the boat was on the trailer attached to the truck. :)

July 4th

July 4th is becoming one of my favorite holidays, probably because, the older I get, the more I understand how lucky I am to live in this country. We have so many freedoms that so many others don't have. The girls looked forward for today for a couple reasons...they got to have new shirts (they love any reason to get new clothes...) and they were going to get to see fireworks. This was the 1st year that they actually remembered what happens on the 4th of July...so it was fun to see them excited for it. Since July 4th fell on a sunday, we went to church in the morning. Yes, they did wear their shirts...not really the best thing to wear to church probably, but they wanted to make sure everyone knew they loved america. After church, we went up to where Gram and Da were camping and got to visit for awhile.

Shelby was very excited about the marshmellows...she is excited about anything with sugar in it, really...but she thinks cooking them over the fire is the best thing ever. I think the marshmellows were always burned pretty crisp...but that was okay, I think it hid some of the dirt and ash she dragged the marshmellows through while she was cooking them.

She had a pretty good sugar high for awhile!

Karlee loved playing with the cousins...they jumped rope, played hide and seek, ate watermelon, played horse shoes (well, watched where the horseshoes landed...they were flying pretty wild) and blew bubbles. Yes, she is wearing her winter coat...it was a chilly day especially with the wind that came up in the afternoon. They were camping by the Green, so we stuck are toes in the water....BRRRRRRR!...it was pretty chilly. I think it took about 15 minutes after we had taken are feet out for them to thaw out abit. A great afternoon!

Once it started to get dark, we ran into to town and met up with the Kynastons to watch the fireworks. It was another fabulous display! Shelby really enjoyed the colors and after each one, she told me that "that was her favorite". Karlee hid under the blanket most of the time. While they were shooting off the fireworks...they played the song, "God Bless the Usa" by Lee Greenwood. This song, with the combination of the fireworks kind of brought me to tears. I am so greatful for all the men and women who have fought for our freedom, from the beginnings of our country till now. I thought I would just post the song...they say how I feel the best....