Since I have always thought it was sad that Josh has to wait all year to get gifts since he has Christmas and then his birthday on January 14, this year we decided to have a half birthday celebration. For his real birthday we will just go out to dinner and he won’t have gifts. Here is Joshua opening his gifts….
Samantha was scheduled to go to two day camps and two weekend camps for Girl Scouts this year. However, she only attended one of the day camps and they didn’t send home pictures like the last day camp. She missed all of her other camps because she somehow managed to come down with pneumonia.
Timmy started out his camping this year with a day camp that he went to with my mom. He wanted to do something with grandma this year. Here is a picture of my mom with Timmy on the last day of camp…
Nathan then took Timmy to two weekend camps. Here is Timmy at the ship’s wheel (it was pirate themed)…
Here is Timmy at the archery range. This year he was able to shoot much better because he was a little older and a little stronger….
Nathan got into the camp atmosphere and played along at one of their gatherings…
Here is another picture of Timmy that Nathan took while at camp…
I had to take a picture of two of our fellow campers during the July 4th golf cart parade….
One of the new events for this year at the campground was a RC boat race at the pool. Nathan helped set the course up and the kids had to steer their boats around balloon fishes in the pool. Here is Timmy getting ready for his race…
Here is Timmy driving his boat…
Here is Josh and Timmy while Josh was driving. I wish my camera skills were quicker because Josh had actually drove his boat through one of the fishes while he was driving…
This event happened while my back was out so I could only stand up for about five minutes. Otherwise I would have gone outside and taken better pictures. One of the work campers came in while the ground was wet and tried to perform a 3 point turn to get into his site instead of backing in. It wasn’t successful and he was stuck heading towards the pavilion. Nathan went out and hooked the winch on his Jeep to the bumper of his RV and helped drag him back up the hill….
I wish I had been able to get better pictures but oh well….
Once we arrived in Pennsylvania this year we decided to add a planter to our deck. It has been mostly fun but the flowers we chose only looked good when they were blooming which wasn’t very much of the summer. Here is Joshua and our neighbor Emma helping to clean up the planter before Nathan built a walkway…
Here is a picture of the front of the deck. The two bushes on the ends are blueberry bushes, the dead one in the middle is also a blueberry that I am hoping will come back next year. The ground cover is ever bearing strawberries…
I did get a few blueberries from each of my plants this year so I am really looking forward to seeing how many I get next year. Here is a close up of one of our strawberries that are out right now…
Here is a picture of the side of the deck. We planted perrenial flowers that I am going to dig up soon, blackberries, and raspberries….
A close up of one of the blackberry plants…
We had one raspberry plant that produced this year but now looks like it is dead… hmmm… hoping it will come back up next year since the berries were delicious. Here is one of the raspberry plants that is growing like a weed but hasn’t given us a berry yet….
My mom also gave Nathan a new fire ring for his birthday so here is a picture of the new fire ring…
Nathan has the cooking plate over the fire because we buy amazing fresh corn and he boils pots outside so he can fit more at a time.