Camp McFadden

My Dad helps out with a nice little camp right outside Ponca. It's called Camp McFadden. If you ever happen by Ponca, I highly recommend checking the place out for a night or two. Anyhow, while we were there, we took a trip out to the camp to go canoing one afternoon. It was a ton of fun. Josh really had a blast this time. (Last time he was in a canoe, all he wanted was to get back to land.)

Hi!

Josh taking a turn at the paddle.

Here, Josh is trying to get the paddle back. Oops!

This is just a picture of the nice little pond we were on. We are in one canoe, and Heather and her family were in the other.

Putt Putt Golf

After our brief stop in Texas, we headed to the great town of Ponca City, OK to visit my parents. We were so happy to be able to see my cousin David and his family when they stopped by on their way to New Mexico. I wish we'd gotten pictures.

One day, we were able to go to the mini-golf course with the kids. Josh loved it for a good 5 minutes. I'd comment on his short attention span, but mine isn't much longer. :)

He's got the idea. Put the ball in the hole with the stick! Yeah!

Time for a much needed break! It's great that these golf course obstacles double as a bench.

This is how Emily got to enjoy the whole golfing experience. Looks like fun to me.

After about 4 holes, this is what Josh let us know what he really thought about mini-golf.

Texas

After we left Heather's place in Louisiana, we headed to Texas to visit Peter's brother, Doug, and his family. While we were there, Josh and the girls got to spend some time playing in the backyard.

Josh filling up the car. As you can see, he's been looking forward to putting gas in a car for a long time.

This is Kimmy. She just a few months younger than Josh. She obviously has something important brewing in that pretty little head of hers.

Later, we pulled out the pool. Kids and water are such a great mix.

Isn't it nice when cousins help each other out? Especially when it involves sprinklers.

I guess Kimmy wasn't quite wet enough! (Or maybe the adults egged him on...)

Ring around the Rosies

One more set of pics from Louisiana and then I'll move on. It's just so much fun to see 1-2 year olds playing ring around the rosies.

So much fun!

Then it was time to go. Bye Abby!

Bye Kaity! Love you guys!

Cute Cousins

Okay, so my posts have been coming along a little slow lately. I apologize for that. Our computer screen isn't working right now, so it may continue to be a little spotty for a while. As soon as it's back up I will be back to blogging on a regular basis.

Anyhow, back to our trip. As we were walking back to our cars after fishing in Louisiana, (see "Fishing in Louisiana" for that story) Kaity and Josh decided to hold hands. We snapped a few pictures of that, of course. SOOOO adorable. They could be in a calendar of cute pictures of kids.

See what I mean?

Which way should we go now?

Awww!

Fishing in Louisiana

Our first stop on our trip was to Heather's house (my sister) in Louisiana. We had a great time there. Heather has 2 little girls. Kaity is 7 months older than Josh and Abby is about 7 months younger. The kids had a blast. There was a playground in the back that we got to play in. And then on the day we left, we got to go on base... Travis, Heather's husband, is a firefighter at Fort Polk... and go to a little kiddie fishing pond. Here are some pictures of the kids and the fish.

Josh and Daddy "Pishing"


Josh's first catch. Doesn't he look proud?


Josh and Abby

Josh and Kaity

The girls were all about the worms and dirt. Josh wouldn't go near it. Go figure!

Vacation

Sorry about the lag in posts. It's been almost 3 weeks since my last one, I think. We went on vacation for a little over 2 weeks. I have a ton of pictures that I need to download on my computer and then I'll be updating you on our fun fun break.

Hope your summer is going great too!