A Day Trip

I have a very hard working husband.

I'm lucky.

He works long hours in a physically demanding job to take care of our family. Sometimes there are days when we don't see him much. I try to keep my emotions in check about that because it's a sacrifice he makes to allow our family to be blessed by my being home with Lily and for Andrew and Reagan when they are home.

Yesterday, he took a day off to get a few things done. One of those things was to drive up to camp and pick up the boat to bring home for the winter.  We decided that Lily and I would tag along and take a little day trip just to spend the day together. 

The Outlaws were back in Pittsburgh, so there was no drama to be had as in Lily's first visit to camp. We actually didn't go all summer long simply because we wanted a peaceful summer that we'd worked very hard over the last 5 years to find. Our early trip this year in April was our only visit this year which was a perfectly happy time.

Lily was set for the ride with lunch, snacks, books, her baby and blankie. She happily chatted with both her parents and kept us laughing until she took a little snooze. We didn't listen to music...we just talked. About some important stuff and some nonsense. We reminisced about making this trip for the first time more than 5 years ago. It was nice simply being together instead of passing each other while we remind of schedules and handing off one to three kids. 

Once we arrived at camp, Lily needed to run off some energy. While Daddy got the boat prepared to come home, Lily ran in the grass next to the house. She is always full of nonstop go go go!

She decided to walk along rocks and feel her newly growing hair blow in the breeze.

 

 

Sometimes she stops to take a break.

She and I had a lot of fun and it always makes me happy to hear her laugh so hard! "Run Run, Mama!"

It was a short little day trip, but an enjoyable day as our party of three and much, much needed time together. ♥

Home from Scout Camp

Three days after we went to visit Andrew at Scout Camp for family day,{you can read about that here too, if you missed the first link. ;)} he came home for not even 24 hours before he turned around and flew off to Arizona to visit Oma for two weeks.

We headed over to the church to pick him up around noon and knew we'd have a day of unpacking, laundry and repacking since we'd be heading to the airport at the crack of dawn for an 8:30am flight.

Lily started squealing as soon as he got out of the car of the people he rode home with and we could see him!

He hugged me and said, "Mom. Seriously. Look at my feet."  Gross.

They had to unload the trailer that carried all their gear before we headed home.  He was exhausted and despite not wanting to unload at home and clean his gear so that I could start laundry, he did just that all while talking about why there were random things like a clothespin in his pocket, ducktape in another, how his camping chair broke and he fell through it, what his favorite part of the week was and that he wanted to go back next year.  I'm glad he had a great time!

 

And pretty soon this was what life looked like after Scout camp.

 

Pretty much a success!

A Pictorial

I mentioned yesterday that we'd been away for the weekend.  This is Lily's version.

Watching Daddy getting ready to go fish.

{it was wayyyyyy too cold for the rest of us to go out with him}

 She kept hollering down to him, "Dadddddddddyyyyyyyyyyyy! Hi Dada!"

Then she'd look at the birds flying and talk to them for a bit.

And then run back and forth across the balcony.

Then back to Daddy...

"hmmmmm" what to do next?

{she literally says hmmmm when she puts her finger on her chin}

She decided to toss her hairbow over the balcony, "Awayyyyyyyy!"

Andrew went down to retrieve the hairbow and help Daddy with something.

Watching Daddy head off in the "boap"

Not thrilled about him leaving her...

See?