During the course of the weekend
we basically rode, ate and relaxed around camp.
The kids rode, ate, and ran circles around the campsite, wrestled,
played, watched movies (when we needed them to relax before bed) and spent some
time in time-out. I am pretty sure
Cecilia is the only one who wasn’t in time out at all. One afternoon for a few hour stretch it
seemed like there were always 2 kids crying: the one that got hurt (hit,
pinched, toy taken away, etc) and the one that was getting a time-out. It really became comical! The time outs were usually for rough
play. Everyone was probably in need of a
nap!
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| Erik and Logan |
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| Heather and Lexi |
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| Vince and Brad |
At some point I had told Vince to
go potty before we got on the horses.
He
didn’t want to so I told him he could go outside behind the horse trailer.
Logan said he had to go to, so I sent them
together.
There was a lot of laughing
and Heather went to check on the boys.
Logan had told Vince to pee in the bucket of water (that was
intended
for the horses).
Vince followed his directions.
Heather and I tried to pretend we weren’t amused.
I made the boys apologize to all the horses! I asked Vince why he did it if he knew it was a bad idea. He said "Mommy, I like having a goofy plan!"
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| Me and Joel |
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| Logan and Vince and I think Vince is attached to the dog leash |
We spent a lot of time
riding!
Heather and Erik rode double
with Lexi and Logan.
I rode with
Cecilia, Brad rode with Joel and Vince rode on Barney (Brad ponied him).
Then Vince would almost fall asleep on
Barney, so the plan would have to change.
One time Logan took Vince’s place on Barney.
One time we had no choice but to put Joel on
Barney, alone!
Joel loved being ponied
around on Barney!
It could be a problem
if he decides he likes that better than riding double.
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| Barney babysitting Joel |
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| Joel riding Barney |
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| Maisy loving Keith. I have a very similar picture of the 2 of them from about 5 years ago. |
On Saturday my inlaws, niece and
nephew joined us for a trail ride.
Heather’s parents also stopped by the campground.
My father in law and Heather’s dad went and checked out the grist mill
while the rest of us went riding.
Heather’s mom stayed back and watched Cecilia.
Which I am told was going fine until the last
10 minutes when Cecilia decided that she wanted me and only me.
It was a nice ride and it was great to see my
nephew so confident riding his new horse.
It was also fun to see Keith playing with all the little kids around
camp and letting them wrestle him down.
They thought it was so much fun!
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| Adults at camp! |
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| Keith. Such a good kid! |
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| The little kids convinced they could take Keith! Lexi was tying up his feet! |
There was only 1 time all weekend
that the kids scared me. When we camp
everyone keeps their horses tied up on picket lines. Joel took off running towards another camp,
but he was headed for someone else’s horses.
I took off running behind him and when I caught a glimpse of him he was
just coming to a stop in a horse’s hay pile.
The horse had no idea what to think and thankfully it didn’t freak out.
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| Logan, Vince, and Lexi trying to take Keith down again |
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| Vince getting Keith....I don't think he really bit him, just his shirt |
It was our (camping) neighbors’
horse that Joel scared. All weekend
Vince kept referring to our (camping) neighbors as “my uncle.” Brad found it hilarious because I had gone on
one date years ago with our camping neighbor.
I asked Vince why he kept calling him his uncle. Vince told me that Logan asked him if that
was his uncle and Vince said “yes”.
Silly Kid!
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| Bristol and Cecilia (giving me a funny look) |
When Heather, Erik, Logan and
Lexi left for home on Sunday evening Vince was very sad!
I was too, but I am an adult and I get to
talk to my friend on the phone, by email and by text whenever I want and Vince
is 4years old and doesn’t get to do those things yet.
When they left my inlaws pulled in next to us
and spent Sunday evening until Monday camping with us.
They just got a new horse trailer and it is
pretty amazing and like nothing I have ever seen before.
They attracted a lot of attention and gave a
lot of tours of the horse trailer and loved every minute of it!
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| Camp Monday morning |
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