Sunday Afternoon Cookout

Petra and Joe came over last Sunday for a lil cookout for Joshua's "goin away". Everyone, of course, was all over lil baby Eliza. She's the cutest lil thing ever...with all of that hair! Jenna is jealous for sure!!! HAHAHA :)

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We miss you G*Ma!

G*Ma & Jenna had a good timeplaying with each other while she was in for her visit. Jenna LOVES the outdoors and enjoys sitting and playing in the grass. We had a lil bon fire in the back yard and all sat around and relaxed. Lindsay also brought baby Kolton over to play. Jenna enjoyed her new little cousin but doesn't quite understand why he wont get up and play with her. (I'm behind on the blogging this was 2 weekends ago hehe) We miss you Nanny!!!!

Joshua spent the afternoon playing in the sprinkler...he's a "big boy" now. haha!

(too busy for the lil kids!)

Mommy's Lil Soldier

Joshua is fascinated with "Army Gear".
So, he played dress up in fatigues the other day.
He was so adorable!

"The only guns a man needs"

Mud Pie Anyone?

Joshua went to stay with Mama & Papa Saturday night (while Mommy and Ev spent the evening with Mason and Courtney). Sunday afternoon I called to check on Joshua and he was in the shower..... Mama said "the boys had a mud fight". I laughed, thought it was cute but don't guess I really had a sense of how bad it was until I heard her say "Joshy hunny, clean inside your ears...I can see dirt in your ears". I said, "I bet they had a blast, but I'm so glad they're at your house!!!! HAHAHA

(note the frog in Devon's hand... cant tell which one is Devon? - he's the one on the left)

Boys will be Boys!

Bluestone Camp Spring 2009

Our family met at Bluestone Camp & Retreat to spend a much needed long weekend together. My Nanny and Papa drove up from SC and we drove down from Charleston, to meet in the mountains. Bluestone Camp & Retreat is owned by the Presbytery of WV (where mom works).
The Lodge...

We hiked and fished and just relaxed and soaked up the fresh air and sunshine. Joshua loved it and has decided that he wants to live there, (after his fit about "not wanting to waste his whole weekend in the woods", lol).


Mom is so silly....

There are tons of hiking trails and we spent Sunday wondering around on them. We enjoyed the company of Basil and Fritz the dogs and Louise the horse. We went up to the lodge on Saturday night and played “Apples to Apples” and had a funny and scary (for me and Nanny) experience with a terrified mole. It ran around blindly for an hour before Joshua caught it with a box and we put it outside. It was so scared it pooped it’s pants!! Joshua did some kind of a tribal dance of capture! LOL Poor lil guy...he was adorable though!

Joshua played outside a lot and almost caught a fish, unfortunately there are no pictures of the “one that got away!” On Sunday night we went down to “The Point,” which overlooks the lake and built a fire, roasted marshmallows and had a wonderful time. I played a really dirty trick on Monday. I was in charge of putting out the fire and did a good job, but was really leery of leaving it, just in case it would reignite. Well, on Monday morning we started to see smoke coming from the area where we had had our fire, so Joshua, Papa and I went down to investigate...

Mom was so upset, thinking that somehow our “extinguished” fire had been reborn in the night and caught the forest on fire. I went running back up the hill and said “It looks like we left an ember and it reignited and set the hillside on fire!!” Mom almost died, she got really upset and almost started to cry. Ok, I did feel bad...so I told her I was just joking. That really, some guys down by the river were burning debris! I think she really did want to choke me!!! But, of course, I almost peed my pants laughing. I'm glad she finally thinks its funny now though!!! We had a TON of fun! Enjoy the pics.