Time has gotten away from me!  We've been gone the past 3 weekends for camping and baseball, it's been a whirlwind beginning of summer!!

We couldn't have asked for better weather for Memorial Day weekend!!  It was perfect for camping!  Our sites were right on the pond.  In the past that meant catching a lot of fish, unfortunately this time there weren't any fish but they did have fun catching turtles!!  There were some big snappers in there!

Mason caught the turtle...

Charlie tried to get the hook out but that sucker snapped hard and fast!  

Charlie gave up after that.

Kade was good at giving directions from a very safe place on the bank.  

That's Kade's hand in the picture surely telling Charlie where to put his 😆

Thankfully the turtle got the hook out himself and then disappeared underwater.  Not that turtle's first rodeo.

Doing what we do best at the campground...relaxing!

Wagon rides with his best girl, Harper.

There was a live band one night.  Mason and Harper stole the show.

This is my absolute favorite picture of the weekend!!

Erik is still stronger...just a little bit!  

It won't be long until he'll need back up if he wants to get Kade on the dance floor.

Mason will still dance with his mama,

but he much prefers Harper.

They got the band's autographs.

Harper's dad showing Mason who's still in charge.

The boys are keeping us busy, as usual!  Kade has been VERY into golf this spring.  

One day, Erik took Kade golfing 18 holes in the morning and Mason fishing in the afternoon.  While I cleaned the house and prepped for the upcoming 3 weekends in a row of camping, baseball and baseball!  Thank goodness school is finally out, it was starting to get in the way of our fun!!

Mason had Track and Field day last week.  He did the softball throw, the long jump and ran the 400.  I wasn't able to get off work but Erik took the day off to cheer him on.  

He also had a field trip to the government center where they did a mock trial.  I'm not sure how but Mason was chosen as the judge!  Let's just hope he always stays on this side of the law!!

Kade joined a gym, with his buddies Porter and Charlie, called ETS.  Starting May 1st, they've been going 3 days a week, getting up at 5:20am to make it to the 6:15 class before school.  He's been showing us his muscles and we're definitely seeing results!  Can't believe he's old enough to weight train!!

I took them out for pizza after one of their evening workouts.  The nerds all sat on one side of the booth while I sat by myself on the other side 😆

 

Mother's Day weekend we took our first camping trip of the season.  We lucked out with the weather, it was raining when we set up the campsite and it was raining when we took it down, but other than that it was decent.  We even managed to get a little sunburned!

The campground it perfect for both boys.  It's right on a trout stream for Mason and it has a nice 18 hole golf course for Kade.  And with the boys being the ages they're at (meaning I don't have to watch their every move) I was able to sneak a little nap in by the fire!  It was a successful start to camping season 2023.

Isaac, Kade, Jay, Violet

Grandpa put Kade to work clearing weeds on the land.

 

We're still plugging away at the school year!  Now that the weather has turned, it's getting very hard to come inside and get to bed early.  Mason has the countdown going for us, I believe he said 15 days left but he always adds, "Not counting today or tomorrow".  I'm not sure who taught him countdowns but you can never really trust it when he's not counting a few days 😆

Baseball has started for Mason!

This is his serious pose.

Erik got suckered in to coaching AGAIN!!  The poor guy can't catch a break, although he doesn't really know how to say "no".  Which is amazing because Kade and Mason sure do know how to say 'NO" repeatedly!  They must've learned that from me.

We spend many hours at the lake down the road these days.  

It's almost bass season!

Unfortunately I didn't have 1 new picture of Kade for this post.  

So I made Erik and Kade recreate one for me 😆

March 2014

9 years later...