Campout

Just wanted to publish this adorable picture of Harrison and Ryder from the campout they went on with their dad this past weekend.  The last 2 Stake Father & Sons Campout have been rained out.  Last year they all drove home in the middle of the night when a huge thunderstorm hit them.  I'm told that Ryder slept through it all.  This year though the weather was FANTASTIC!!!  Sunny, clear and 80 degrees.  The night didn't get too chilly either.  They had lots of fun playing football and participating in a service project to clear the campground of its overgrown brushy areas.

They cooked on the camp stove (campfires were prohibited due to high fire danger - if you haven't seen in the news lately there are huge fires burning thousands of acres near Fort Worth).  Dinner was Dinty More Beef Stew with S'mores for dessert.

All in all it was a great trip for them - if you don't mind the creepy crawlies that were there in abundance.

A mass of daddy long legs hanging out in the restrooms.

There were also milledpedes everywhere - this one was resting. 
I suppose it is quite tiring making 1000 legs move all day long!

Singing In the Rain

Yesterday we had a surprise summer thunderstorm and the kids wanted to play in it.  So with a quick prayer that the lightening would stay away from our neighborhood, I let them have at it!

Nicole has always loved the rain, and she was the one to ask first if she could go out and enjoy it.

Then her siblings decided to join in.

Nothing more fun than swimming in a drainage gulley right?

They had such a great time - and I did too watching from the cover of the front porch.  It was totally worth all the wet clothes and the trail of grass bits that they left when they came in to clean up.  Lovin' these crazy Texas summers!