Funny Friday!

 Happy Friday! :)

Fort Davis!

Sunday morning was our only chance to sleep in that week. Thankfully the kids slept great and got a little caught up although we were all still pretty tired when we woke up at our 6AM, Texas 8AM.

 

  

 

We met the family and headed out for a little side trip to Fort Davis. We were trying to get a picture of the kids but the sun was too bright. Haha.

 

  

 

 The whole week almost everywhere we went Peaches and Lou were holding hands with little J.

 

 

They have a lot of really neat displays at this fort. This was the old stables.

 

 

 

And the barracks. We noticed the beds were pretty short and learned that the Calvary men couldn't be more than 5 foot 8 because they thought it was too hard on the horses to carry bigger men out on patrol for miles and miles every day.

 

 

 

We also learned this fort was never actually attacked, but it was raided several times for its horses and supplies.

 

 

 Noni said she has a picture of me standing right here at about Lou's age so we got this one. :)

 

 

 

We walked the grounds and checked out all the old buildings.

 

 

 

 They built the fort twice because the original one was made of wood and all burned down at one point so they had to rebuild out of bricks.

 

 

 

 

Thankfully it wasn't too hot this year...mid 80's which was super nice for Texas in July!!

 

 

 

Sweet cousins!

 

 

 

I got this picture because I have one in the same place of Aunt Karen with the girls and M when we visited there years ago. 

 

 

J was pretty tired by the time we were ready to go and caught rides wherever he could. :)

 

 

 He loved the dress up station in the museum.

 

 

Peaches is wearing the same dress here that Boo wore the first time we went! Lou didn't want to dress up, but she was holding a gun at one point and little S walked by and said, "A girl with a gun?! That's disrespectful!" Haha.

 

Practicing Morse code.

 

 

Camping

 

 

We finished up at the Fort and then stopped for lunch at a grocery store/sandwich shop.

 

 

I found this gem and several others like it on my phone later. :P

 

 

 

Then it was back to camp for games...but not before we got Sonic! Lou is so funny...after she finishes her drink she goes around to other people's and begs a sip off them. She was going around to all the empty cups and testing each one to see if they had anything left.

 

 It had warmed up that afternoon so we pulled down the old kiddie pool and let the little ones splash around while we played a card game.

 

 

 

 It was a wonderful relaxing afternoon!

 

 

Next up the first official day of camp!

Painting the Bell!

 Even though we'd been up for 16 hours at this point we decided to paint the bell the first night. Camp didn't start until the next day so there weren't many people around yet and we figured we could go at 9:30 instead of waiting until 10:30. The girls came up with a fruit of the spirit theme.

 

 

M and S came to help too.

 

 

It was a lot darker than these pictures make it seem and it was hard to see but they did a good job!

 

 

We let the younger ones do whatever they wanted on the back.

 

 

Here they are the next day! Good job bell painters!

 

 

Sweet cousins!

 

 

All five little ones have so much energy and barely stopped moving all week! While the rest of us waited in line they were climbing trees and playing with rocks and running all over the place. They kept each other quite entertained!

 

 

Peanut loved little J and did a great job keeping him safe while he ran after the big kids!

 

 

 

Up next: Fort Davis! 

 

Texas!

 Peanut got home from camp Friday afternoon and brought Boo's suitcase with her so I could do a quick turn around on their laundry. Boo got home at 8pm that night and seven and half hours later we left our house at 3:25AM! Lou hitched a ride to the terminal.

 

 

We met Noni, got our bags checked in and got through security in record time. 

 

 

We were ready for Texas! 

 

 The girls usually don't sleep that well on the plane so I was very happy that Lou was out within minutes of being airborne.

 

 

We had a short layover in Denver...just time enough to grab some breakfast before boarding our next plane. Daddy was trying to teach Lou how to cut her pancakes. :)

 

 

Our next flight was quick and easy and we landed in Texas! We grabbed rental cars and jumped in for a little road trip to camp. Two trips to McDonald's in one day made for happy girls, haha, and thankfully they passed out the entire way there!

 

 

This trip we got two small rental cars instead of one larger vehicle. Noni and I had the littles and Daddy had the three big girls. They did a little napping too.

 

 

They woke up just as we were pulling into the town.

 

 

We got some groceries and headed to camp to open up the cabin. Thankfully Daddy and the big girls got there first and cleared out the SIXTEEN mice in traps before I got there. :P Aunt Karen had gone this spring and set off bug bombs and put out new sticky traps which were quite effective! I only saw two ants and a couple tiny moths the whole week! No spiders or scorpions this year! Thanks Aunt Karen!!!

 

T had to fix some leaky pipes and patch a big hole in the back where the mice had chewed through the spray foam. Noni did all the vacuuming and bleaching while I unpacked everything and set up all the beds and carpets. We were hot and tired, but managed to finish in just a couple hours and then we headed to town to meet the family for dinner.  

 

 

We ate at a restaurant we'd never been to before and it was really good!

 

 

Cutie J!

 

 

Sisters!

 

 

After the kids ate they went and played outside.

 

 

It was really pretty there and not too hot. We enjoyed the sunset.

 

The kids play really well together and can make all sorts of fun with just some rocks and sticks. :)

 

 

Funny kiddos!

 

 

The best part about camp is being with the family! We were just missing Auntie E and Pawpaw!

 

 

Lots more pictures to come!