Our camping trip

We had such a great time camping with all our buddies from our small group at church. These pictures are in no special order and I tried to get as many combinations of people as I could. I know there's alot, but had to capture most of all the moments. The weather was absolutely gorgeous and it couldn't have been any better. Not too hot and not too cold. It was just a wee bit chilly saturday night, but we just bundled up more. The kids had so much fun together!!! I know most of you will be blogging about it so I won't be long winded.

Most of you know for some reason I do not sleep well in a tent at all. That's the only downfall to camping for me. So as I lay there patiently waiting for my family one by one to wake up in the morning. Bradley first jumps under the covers with us and then we wait quietly for Alayna to peek her head up over the pack and play with a great big "HI" and giggle. Then daddy has no choice but to wake up to the tickling and giggling. This is one of my favorites as we start the day.

This was Saturday morning around the campfire. I love this part of just hanging out laughing, being silly, being serious, being quiet, being loud, getting to know people just a little bit better and just being.

The Schrodt Family gearing up for smore time.


Happy baby Callie. She was an awesome little mini camper. She and Alayna are outnumbered by the boys by far. So glad you had a girl Katy or Alayna would be destined to be a tomboy for sure!! Well I think she already is!!

Dave intriging the boys with probably some creepy crawler.

Daddy & Bradley doing their favorite thing...fishing. Bradley begs to do it all weekend long and thinks that's all there is to camping.

Craig & Dave took the boys canoeing on Saturday afternoon

Alexander begging Craig for more squishy bait:) Hee Hee. Bradley baited his first worm on a hook this weekend, daddy was so proud!!

Jacob so proud that he made the perfect marshmallows.

Mike, Terri, & Joely Boely as Bradley liked to call him.

Me and Alayna. She was referred to as Pig Pen's sister from the peanuts this weekend because she got so dirty she constantly had a cloud of dust over her head. I hardly had her dressed in the right clothes for camping. Oh well....

Craig gave free bike rides around the campground. So all the kids took turns and had a blast. I told him he should have started charging per ride:) Could of made some side $

Bradley and Josiah playing so well together. Not sure what that game is called.

Little Grayson making his first smores and so intent to make it perfectly.

Bradley & Alexander handing out being buds

Trevor, Grayson, Jayne & Sue. Jayne is doing a very good advertisement for Hershey bars. I hope they are paying her well.

Friday night. Most all the kids hanging out playing trucks.

Joel and Alayna playing with the leap frog table. They were so cute!

Katy and Jacob roasting hotdogs.

Grayson and Alexander...look at my marshmallow says Alexander!

So you are probably wondering what the For Rent sign is for. Craig just happened to have it in the trunk and pulled it out when Sue and I were fussing at each other. Maybe he wanted to put us up for rent or something.

Mom, I don't want to disappoint you because I did have tricks and pranks up my sleeve like we talked about but my plan sort of got foiled and ended up scaring myself. I had the snake hidden in my sweatshirt to scare someone or the whole group while we were sitting around the fire. Throughout the morning I kept making sure it was still there and didn't fall out. Well I then forgot about it and Sue and I were going to get our picture taken in front of the For Rent sign and as we were walking over there the snake fell out of my sweatshirt and Sue noticed it just as I felt something on my leg. Needless to say it scared the both of us. She goes and jumps up on her truck and I quickly realized it was my own dumb snake. She was scared to tears and I felt so bad. Then we thought it had fallen out earlier and Craig got ahold of it and threw it at us, but he swore he didn't. Once again Sue, so sorry you encountered a dreaded snake again.

Thanks to all of you for such a great time and the making of such fun memories!!!