Thursday, July 2, 2009

Summer Vacation Week #3

I am a little late posting for last week since we are already half way through this week! We had another fun week last week. I got the girls busy cleaning in the kitchen. We have most of the cupboards cleaned out now and we got the fridge cleaned out too. Little K had so much fun helping clean out the fridge.
The other girls got to clean the bathrooms....not their favorite thing to do, but they need to learn responsibility. M is so particular after she cleans the bathroom. She won't let anyone make a mess in there!
For our cooking class we were going to make homemade bread and butter, but I had too much bread already, so we turned the cream into ice cream instead! (I don't think anyone minded!) We used the Ziploc bag method. I was surprised that it froze so fast. We might just do it like that every time! The girls had a lot of fun shaking it, but it sure was COLD. We went for two nights camping with my brother and his family. It was a lot of fun. We stayed at a nice camp ground. We were right by the river and the kids had fun playing in it. We had yummy food, the kids had fun playing together, and the adults had fun playing games after the kids were all in bed. The only thing that would have made it better is if the kids had slept better at night! Oh and if it hadn't rained on us.
My in-laws just bought a fun new camp trailer. We got to take it with us. It was a fun experience. We might just want to get one of our own someday!
This was little H's first time camping. Unfortunately she didn't have a very good time. She got into something she was allergic to. We couldn't figure out what it might have been. Her little face got all red and splotchy. She was very miserable....poor thing.
We decided to go to the lake one day. We took our paddle boat with us. My brother's family took it for a little spin on the lake. You can never go water skiing behind it, but it is still fun. I think the kids enjoyed it the very most.
We thought the water would be too cold to play in so we didn't take our swim suit. The water was pretty nice though. The kids had fun getting in. What started out as wading turned into swimming until all the kids were soaked....but they were sure happy.
We saw a few little critters while we were camping. The kids loved the caterpillars. My husband wasn't too fond of all the ants he stepped in. I should have got the "get these ants off me" dance on tape!We made a mad dash home on Saturday so that we could go to our family reunion. It is always at the same park. We had fun eating, visiting, and playing.

Well another fun week is gone. 3 down 8 more to go.

2 comments:

  1. How fun that you got to go camping! I just don't think we're going to get to go this summer! It looks like everyone had fun. Poor H! It looks like she has her Daddy and hair piece for comfort though! ;)

    You've got so many fun activities planned. I'm sure your girls love it!

    Isn't it great for kids to learn how to clean. D has been doing it for a year now and he's actually finally starting to get good at it! :)

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  2. You sure have been busy. Looks like there is a lot of fun going on in your house! Good times!

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