Memorial Day (on Sunday)

Because Memorial Day always brings a four day weekend, the Campground always has extra campers. So there was a big turn out for the 'Frog Jumping Contest'!

Lots of people brought their own frogs and some brought enough frogs for themselves and others! I heard that there was a garbage can with nearly thirty frogs in it!
My nephew was excited to have a frog, and he even won third place!
This frog was huge!
My mom doesn't like frogs so she hid in the car during this part!
These girls don't mind frogs, but they didn't feel like getting slimy catching frogs!
I wonder how many frogs they had?
After the 'Frog Jumping Contest' we had a Memorial Day service to give honor to those who served in the Armed Forces.
Dad thanked those who had served and and were with us but he also gave honor to those who had 'Given the last full measure of Devotion'.

After a moment of silence Rachel played Taps by the American flag.


To help give an illustration for church some of the kids were asked to try and break some sticks. They started out with one little twig and after that they tried several stick together.

All of that was to show that as Christians we are not very strong on our own but when we are a group we can help strengthen each other.
Isaac was really fun to watch as he was trying to break his sticks. :)
I think that someone counted around 70 people crunched in church this week!
Okay, I know that numbers aren't all that is important in a church. But it was allot of fun hearing all of those voices joining in worship on Sunday!

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!