Thursday, May 30, 2013

Father's & Son's

Every year, most wards host a Father's & Son's campout commemorating the restoration of the priesthood to the prophet Joseph Smith.  Last year we traveled up to Maryland where the Lee and the boys attended the Father's & Son's campout with Jeff and co.  (Well, I am not sure if the Fathers & Sons was in Maryland or Virginia, or West Virginia.) This year they came down here and went with Lee and the boys to our ward's Father's & Son's.  Our whole ward was actually invited to go, but I just wanted Lee and the boys to go.  Jeff dropped off Lois here and we had a girls night.  We had hot fudge sundaes, watched HGTV and two episodes of Granite Flats. Check Granite Flats out here.  I really like this show. Nice and clean, with some good drama. Can't wait for season two!  We didn't take any pictures of our girl's night, but Lee took pictures at the campout.  He even told his cat story.  Come by for a visit and we'll roast marshmallows and Lee will share his cat story.  And maybe if you liked to be scared a little, he'll share his Memphis story.

Oh, before I share pictures from Father's & Son's, here is Cal's last project for school this year.  He had to pick a "famous" person, write down five facts about him and re-create the person.  Can you guess who?
May 22 2013 Cal and Neil Armstrong

Also, one of the first times I used my oven I roasted a chicken.  I should have covered it or something because it made a HUGE mess.  I know, I know, ovens are for cooking and will get messy, but my nice, brand new oven was a mess.  And then I tried to clean it with some cheap oven cleaner and apparently some oven cleaner dripped on an oven handle and dis-colored a small part of it.  I was trying to avoid doing the self-clean and using up a bunch of propane to do so.  It's not even all the way clean and I am going to end up using the self-clean.  Oh well.  I will buy some better oven cleaner sometime, but I don't want to scrub it out again, anytime soon. 
May 20 2013 Oven

Oh...and I made a cake for my friend's son.

May 24 2013

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Okay...Father's & Son's.  It was very primitive...no nothin'.  Thus it was free camping! 
May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (3)

May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (2)

I guess Clark liked the backwards roasting?
May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (4)

See the frost on the windows?  It got down in the 40s.  Brr.....
May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (7)

The bishopric provided breakfast-breakfast burritos, yum!
May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (8)

May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake

May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (9)

May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (10)

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They went on a hike to Slate Lick Lake.  It was quite the l-o-n-g walk with several kids and no water.  Good thing it wasn't hot out. They all walked two miles to the lake.  Once they got there Lee ran back at got the van to bring them back to camp.  By the time Lee met them they had already walked one mile.
May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (12)

May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (13)

May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (14)

Lee said it was a pretty spot.  Looks like it!
May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (18)

May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (19)

May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (20)

May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (21)

May 25 2013 Fathers & Sons Slate Lick Lake (22)

A couple in our ward gave us this gala apple tree.  They were excited that we had purchased our first home and wanted to give us a house warming gift--a tree.  He suggested a fruit tree and this is what we picked.  Thanks Butlers!  And thanks Lee for planting it!
May 25 2013 gala apple tree from the Butlers

After a lazy morning at home, the guys were back.  They had purchased $.49 slurpees and Lee treated to us girls to some too.
May 25 2013 Shanna

A little later we headed to a parade in Shenandoah.
May 25 2013 Shenandoah parade

May 25 2013 Shenandoah parade (2)

It would be fun to have Lee be in it next year--well Elkton Eyecare.  It's free to be in the parade.  We went to the park after the parade, had dinner and visited a little.  Thanks for coming down Heits!  Come back soon!

2 comments:

Lois said...

Thanks for the fun weekend!!! (And who is that fat lady you sat by during the parade??)

Lois said...

Looks like fun. Didn't think you could use oven cleaner on a self-cleaning oven. Hope it all came off ok. The parade looks fun.

Love, MOM