Still Catching Up

I am still trying to get caught up from this week-end!  We started our week-end Thursday at the lake.  Steve, Thomas, and I spent the night at the lake Thursday night and Thomas and I got up and went to school and work Friday morning.  Steve and Pop wanted to fish until dark and get up early Friday morning to fish, so we stayed the night and Dan-Dan and Pop did too.  They stayed in our camper, which is really their camper Ha! and we stayed in Aunt Cindy's Wildcat as Thomas refers to it HA!  Cindy and Dodd brought the Wildcat Thursday afternoon and set it up.  That was our first time staying in it and it was fun!!

Thomas and Campbell found some old cement blocks leading out into the water and that is where they wanted to play.  I wasn't too worried about them playing there, it was only ankle deep.  But what I did worry about was alligators and snakes.  Steve and Pop have seen alligators when they were out fishing in this lake.

It was a beautiful sunset that afternoon!  The lake is so pretty...it is just another example of God's handiwork!

Thomas loved staying in the Wildcat camper!  It was something new and he got out all of his trucks and tractors and got in the floor.  He was even pretending that the remote controls were cars!  Of course he was getting in a little Starfall too!  He slept so good that night...the bed really is comfortable!

Friday afternoon I took off early and picked Thomas up from school and we headed back to the lake.  Steve had promised Thomas a boat ride with him and Pop and Thomas could hardly wait to get there!  Pop was putting on his life jacket and they were ready to go!

And they are off!  The fish better look out!  Dan-Dan and I stayed back at the camper and then we went around to the playground to meet them and get Thomas off the boat.  We stayed at the playground for a little while and let Thomas play.

Thomas loved the playground.  There is a contraption there that is supposed to look like an old truck, I think.  But Thomas kept pretending it was bus and he wanted Dan-Dan and I to ride in his bus and he was pretending he was taking these "wadies" places HA!

This is the "camp cat".  This cat was the sweetest cat and Thomas and Campbell named her Red Rover HA!  I have no idea where that name came from!  Poor Red Rover was a really good sport and she let Thomas and Campbell do pretty much anything they wanted to her.  She had a really good time with them.  I would have liked to bring her home with us.  Thomas said he knew he was awergic to cats...but he sure wuvved Red Rover anyway!!

Our neighbors that camped right beside us happened to be Dodd's first cousin and her family.  Thomas made a new friend, Conner.  Of course, Campbell already knew Conner because he is her cousin, but Thomas didn't and he was so proud he made him a new friend.  They had a lot of fun.  You know they are having fun when they are so dirty that their feet are black.  I think Thomas got the dirtiest I have ever seen him on this camping trip.  I remember Tori used to do the same thing...now she won't hardly even go with us HA!  She did come and spend the night Friday night, but she slept over in the Wildcat.  She stayed with Bon Jean Thursday night and then they went home Saturday night.  Camping is a lot of fun, especially for the children...but I know some adults who like it pretty well too!!