Saturday, August 14, 2010

Camping with Kaylie - The Remaining Two Days

Saturday morning started out with french toast and sausage.  Kaylie was the official egg cracker/scrambler.

There was some modeling of the new swimsuit prior to going to the beach.

We're very serious about our sunscreen.  Kaylie piled it on before any fun in the sun.


It was a really warm day to play in the lake.

She even convinced gramps to join in.

Time out for a lunch break.

Most kids have buckets and shovels but not ours.  Oh no, they get empty food containers, cocktail glasses and serving spoons out of Eddie.

Kaylie made a couple new friends.  Boys just can't stay away if they think a meal might be in the make'n.

Saturday night we all went up to the Rangers station and made some crafty things (I'm about arted out by now).  This was the bird feeder they had the kids make.  It's a pine cone with peanut butter and bird seed stuck on it.

Then we made a critter out of stuff from outside.  Like pine cones and feathers and sticks etc.

Here is the finished critter project.  I wanted to name it Predator but she wouldn't let me.

We completed the evening of fun crafty crap with this thing.  Complete with sand and seashells.

After the art in the park thing, we had hot dogs roasted over the fire.

Sunday started with pancakes.  Kaylie is an expert pancake flipper.

Oh yeah.... 5 more hours of beach time.  The duck's a nice touch.

Kaylie goes out on the dock (or as some dim witted blond woman from who knows where ..obviously not from around here... called it "the bridge").

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Camping with Kaylie - Friday Night

We took Kaylie camping last weekend.  Friday night started out with Kaylie doing some artwork.

At one point she needed to take a break and chill out in the hammock.



Kaylie is an excellent chicken drumstick barbecue'r.

Our night ended with more painting...under lantern light.


Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Kaleb's Racing

My grandson Kaleb, who is 6 years old, has entered into the world of motocross racing. Last week he raced his first race at the Stearns County Fair, then the next night he raced in the Crow Wing County Fair and then a couple nights later he was up in Bagley racing. So he's getting a lot of seat time.

 


Here he is at the Crow Wing County Fair at the start line with both mom and dad there to help him.

It would appear Josh (dad) has some encouraging last minute words for Kaleb.

Off he goes....

Looks like he's in the lead....go Kaleb...

Nice cornering...


Yeah!!!  First place!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

BWCA Day 5 Heading Home

There was some pouting on Tuesday when we had to head home.

 

Our Kinship Kid (aka: son in law) had a collar on that said Camper on it, so not to be confused with Staff.

The beaver dams were even bigger and stronger on the way back out.


Bad beavers.....you bad beavers.
We are currently watching Josh for signs of Giardia.

As usual the guy in the back of the boat doesn't do much.

The boys land their boat at the portage.
Another BWCA adventure went very well.

Monday, August 09, 2010

BWCA Day 4


Day 4 started off a little foggy.  Josh was up at 4:30 am or some goofy time.  So when me and Makita got up around 6:00 am we hit the water.  We left Mikey fast asleep in his little tent.


We forgot that our canoe carrier doubles as a seat so Josh sat cross legged on the bottom of the boat most of the morning.  He lost all feeling in his legs and feet about a half hour into the journey.


Mikey finally got up around 7:30am to find us all gone.  So he high tailed it out to find us and retrieve his little buddy Josh (who was grateful to have a seat).



Josh cleaned up on fishing.  He was the only one to bring in any fish that morning.  He's a real Gary Roach if you know what I mean.


We cleaned up the fish that Josh caught and combined it with the fish we'd caught the day before and were finally in for a fish fry.

Mike and Josh went out and tipped the canoe.  This has become customary on these trips it would seem.


Then Josh and Makita got it in their heads to jump off a rock cliff.


Geronimo Josh!

Oh for Pete's sake...........


I may have mentioned earlier..... the rocks are slippery..... "Down goes Frazier"


Fish Fry!


Three little piggy's eat their fish.


Three little piggy's do the dishes.


Ahhh they finally get to kick back and smoke a cigar and wait for the stars that are sure to shine bright.

Friday, August 06, 2010

BWCA - Day Three


There's always work to do around camp.  Josh is a super sonic wood cutter.  I don't think any of us, other than him, cut one single piece.


The bear bag looked pretty good up there in the tree.  The rest of the camp was sorta messy.


Rock fishing rocks!


Be careful...those rocks can be slippery.


Josh and Mike were kick'n back fishing.


Wang in the rain!


It rained pretty good for awhile in the afternoon, early evening.


Hmmmmm.... a gay looking shirt, a rainbow and a naked man in the background......


Josh loves bath time.


The boys coming back from dumping fish guts.  They're paddling sons of guns.