The Rules of Camping

And finally we have rule #3

Rule #3 is Sunshine and Swimming

Play catch with you Uncle

Pop bubbles.

Play catch with your cousin

Have best friend time at the park

And of course go swimming! This little girl went for her first time ever, and she loved it!! She was so relaxed in the pool!

Cousins

The Rules of Camping

Rule #2

Its a 2 part rule, Family and Food

Cute little cousins waiting for their supper

Making french fries.

And hot dogs

The brothers and brother in laws washing dishes #playingcatch

Love these 3

Taylor wanted in on the real food.

It wasn't all that she thought it would be.

Brendan and Janelle enjoying every bite.

Hailey and Kayla

Grama with her 2 littlest grand babies.

All the grand kids.

And of course our family pictures.

The Rules of Camping

Last weekend we headed out for a wonderful time in Carman, camping with my family.

We are getting to be a good number of people,

My parents and 3 brothers and 2 sisters at home, one of those sisters has a boy friend

Then my sister, her husband and their daughter

My brother, his wife and their 2 daughters, with a baby on the way for August

And our family of 5.

So in order for things to work out well with that many people you need to have some camping rules. :)

So here they are:

RULE #1 Relax

Sophia knows how its done!

Kayla and Taylor.

Brendan

Frank and Rita, aren't they cute?!

Josh, isn't he cute too? :)

Janelle, of course she's cute!

Taylor and Uncle Ben

Sophia and Kayla

Brendan

Kayla

Sophia

Andrew

Andy, Hailey, Grama and Kayla

And of course all of us around the fire.

Water Fun

On Saturday we woke up to a rather warm, humid day.

We enjoyed pancakes for breakfast, then cleaned up and relaxed.

After lunch some of us went for a game of tennis, which was cut short when they put up tornado warnings for our campsite!

We headed back, cleaned up all our stuff and were getting ready to leave till the storm passed when it started to rain!

We all scrambled into the RV and watched and prayed.

Thankfully the storm passed with just rain, wind and a little bit of hail.

Oh, and a nice big puddle!!

Since the kids were all wet we decided to head down to the beach again.

Brendan staring down an alligator. :)

Kayla and Daddy swimming.

After a super steak supper Josh took Brendan and the girls on the boat again.

The girls tried out the knee board.

They were really good!

Although once in awhile you have to fall. :)

Brendan was happy to watch.

Then they pulled out the tube. Even Brooke and Kaya gave it a try.

And that was our last, wet, fun day! We are looking forward to going again!