crazy campers

When AH and I go camping we usually go to get away from the hustle and bustle of home and work.  We want to chill out, relax and enjoy our time together. 
Do you have any idea what happens to those ideas when you add, 3 tents, 3 dogs, 5 kids and 5 adults?  There will be no relaxing, chilling out or quiet. 
It was so beautiful last weekend.   Temps in the low 80's, 50's at night, a beautiful park and softly falling leaves.  The kids were well behaved, the adults almost.  We ate tons of food, hung out around the camp fire and visited a pumpkin patch.  We toasted marshmallows, hunted for twigs to start our fire and decorated our pumpkins. 


Fall has arrived




Beautiful lake.  It's supposed to be great for fishing.




Tons of stuff they couldn't live without.




Rich, Katelyn, Brandi




Nate, Jayden and Chase.  DIL Barb couldn't come, she was missed.




I don't think anyone has more beautiful grand kids.  They are always ready to pose.




Pumpkin patch, a great picnic and mazes to go through.




A new look for a Midwest grain bin.




O ur favorite past time eating.  MIL Sara, Brendan and Rich




DIL Sara and Ron fixing dinner.

 At the end we were exhausted, smelled like wood smoke,  had a ton of stuff to put away and laundry to do.  Having our family all together makes all the work worthwhile.