Just being lazy...

... That is what my sister Rachel said about

this last Sunday.

Rachel told me:"All we did all afternoon was sit around and talk!" But I told her I enjoyed it!

Besides there were other things that we did...

These girls went for a boat ride, and they were almost dumped into the water couple time thanks to Jordan!

Jordan was cutting cattails for Marge and Maurie. (When he wasn't trying to dump the girls in the water:)

Up until this picture the waiters kept Jordan dry but then he slipped!
Later some of the guys went fishing.

(Notice who is in the background? It was great having Faith and Melody home from Texas)

Dave said he knew the perfect place to catch fish!

While some people were fishing, and some people were sitting around on Lauren and Wolfgang's deck some of us went on a walk.

I couldn't pass up adding this pretty flower that I found on our walk!
I also couldn't pass up this great picture of Marge trying to be Tarzan!

Looks like these guys fishing went well...

Don't worry I won't show you all the gross pictures of them trying to fillet them.

Finally it was time to eat!

Poor Bop was cold!

We found a really good twist on the traditional s'more!

We used an Oreo cooking instead of a graham cracker.... Yum!

But the s'more was really messy!

The guys weren't satisfied with the normal way of playing guitar. :)

Poor Marge! All of this 'Just being lazy' was hard on her!

Blink Anyone?

Mother's Day

To help celebrate Mother's Day Maurie made a huge cake!

To follow tradition the guys did all the cooking!

Ladies first!
As huge as this cake was it disappeared really fast!

Someone brought some really big marsh mellows.

We thought they would be great for 'chubby bunny'!

Although we found out it was nearly impossible

to say 'chubby bunny' with only one marsh mellow!

Great job Katie!

Christian had a hard time trying to get the

marsh mellow in his mouth...

...so Wolfgang offered to help!

Almost there Zoe... :)

My sisters are never afraid to try something strange!

And last but not least I thought it would be

fun to get a mom trying it! Way to go Dawn!

He's back!

He's back!

'Miracle Man' as he has been termed was finally able to come

back to the Refuge this last Sunday!

Everyone was glad to see 'Bop' or Merle back at church!

Welcome back Bop!

Aren't hugs great!

We were also blessed to celebrate an anniversary!

Congratulations on 23 years!

Guess who had a birthday Monday...
The little ones were having fun helping Jamie open gifts. :)

Rach told us on Sunday that she would really like to go flying.

So Mrs. Lee said that was possible with a little imagination!


At the beach Isaac found a fish swiming in the water close to shore...
...so we decided to go to the dock and feed the fish.I think Kaleb and Joy ate more bread than they fed the fish!
While we were feeding the fish the other kids went for a boat ride.

Isaac thought he needed to help. :)


Kaleb wouldn't let that bag of bread out of sight!
Still eating...
Kaleb and Joy really wanted to go for a boat ride also...
...they didn't get very far.
Time to go!