Shall we gather at the river

Over the winter some dear friends, the Mitchells, asked The preacher Daddy to baptise two of their young'uns when the weather was warmer.
So, today, that's what we did.

 

What a beautiful day!
And we played and ate.

The little boys and their new buckets - the perfect thing for putting your mud in.

That little one with Ava is My Chance! The Petitt family was camping and came to see us.

Boys with a log.

Boys with Lora on the log (she was lighter than them and floated better - this was a well traveled log).

The big boys went tubing down the falls.

While the daddies grilled hot dogs at the top of the hill.

Lora, Jorja and Gabby wading to the falls after lunch

Elijah and Ryan

Alex

Daddy and Josiah falling down (on purpose)

Lora sitting



 After we cleaned up our mess, and all who would had slide down the falls we went to visit with the Petitts at their campsite.

Me and Chance

Me and Ann and Chance (Not the greatest picture but Jorja tried hard to take it)

Another photo by Jorja of Daddy and his mommy, Marcia (aka Grandma)

Thankfully there are NO pictures of our Geo-caching adventure. Some unnamed boys wanted to go find a treasure (or whatever) but went so far and decided to come back and get the Mamas so they could go further. So, us Mamas, strapped on a little one, stopped by the potty and walk down a big, steep hill in the woods to an unused trail. I was NOT going back up that hill with the little ones we had in tow (I wasn't dragging them back up) so we followed the trail to the road. Forgot that the road goes UP and up and up and up . . . dragging/carrying little ones.
We made it back to the camp and guzzled down some water.
We didn't find the treasure but I think I've officially started that exercising I've been wanting to do.
Thanks boys!

Here's one more just for good measure - Gene took this one at the local hardware store.


Elijah and Alex learn where babies come from.

Now, its Sunday afternoon. And almost quiet. At least not terribly loud. I've had a short nap and ice cream is calling us.