September was crazy busy for us. (Isn't it always?!) I was delighted to turn the calendar page to October. Such a clean slate. While constantly doing fun things is, well...fun, it is also exhausting. After a while I start to feel like the heart and soul of our family is unraveling due to all of this "fun." Don't get me wrong--I am thankful for our active lifestyle. It means we are all healthy. It means we are blessed in more ways than I can count. But a little rest is restorative. :)
Last night we celebrated the end of our soccer season by watching Aaron play one last game this fall. The weather has been so perfect for soccer this year. Kaleb played his last game last week. Someday I hope to post more about our September days. But for today, I'm highlighting our September camping trip with Shawn and Rebekah and kids.
 |
"Friends are friends forever, if the Lord's the Lord of them..."
Rebekah and I used to sing this song during the summer we worked at camp.
And now we go camping together with our families. :) |
 |
| What is he thinking? I like to think he's reflecting on such a great summer. Ha! |
 |
Aaron insisted we bring my flip-flop candle on our camping trip.
Notice his elbow? Seems like it had a bandaid on it all summer long. |
 |
| Kaleb uses sticks as swords... |
 |
| ...and as guns... |
 |
| ...and he dug this log out of the lake to have a place to sit! |
 |
| The boys spent lots of time playing in the mud. What a great thing to do while camping. |
 |
| Here they are showing off their dams. |
Derek and Shawn deep fried the turkey Braylen shot last spring. They did it all themselves--hooray! Rebekah and I prepared a few side dishes and I think we had a nice spread of food. Yep, we sure do love our hunters. :) If someone would have told us 20 years ago what our future held, Rebekah and I would have never believed it. Isn't God great?!?!
 |
| Derek's checking on the bird. (Thank you Braylen for this picture!) |
One last picture for today. This one's from the state fair. Yes, we snuck in a trip to the state fair on Labor Day weekend. We even let Braylen bring a friend. It was very hot. There were lots of people there. But we had fun and ate cotton candy, funnel cakes, and drank tart lemonade. That makes it worth it, right? ;) I thanked God over and over that we never tried to go to a state fair with young kids and strollers. I saw so many miserable looking toddlers and even more miserable looking parents. I wanted to tell those people, "Wait until your kids are older! They will enjoy it more, they will be old enough to remember it, and it is
so much easier on you as parents!" But I kept my thoughts to myself. To each his own, right? :)
 |
| Haven't you ever seen a Mater hay bale before? :) |
No comments:
Post a Comment