Camping trip

We went camping over the weekend. We drove about 3 1/2 hours up into the mountains. It was cold but beautiful. It stormed and rained hard Saturday night, but it never rained during the day. A bear was prowling about at several campsites during the nights. It came through our camp but we never saw it. We just saw where it had walked around the camper. We were careful to not leave any food out. The kids liked the adventure and have been telling everyone about the bear. They enjoyed fishing with Danny. Danny caught two rainbow trout and Owen caught a crawdad. He caught it on his fishing pole and held it up and said "I caught something!" and I was expecting to see a fish. They kept it in a bucket and played with it. Owen named it Danny. Chloe wanted to name it Nigel. Chloe said she was mad Owen caught a fish and she didn't. I told her he didn't catch a fish, and she said he caught something better than a fish. Here are several pictures from the trip.

Why is it called a slumber party?

Chloe had her birthday slumber party on Saturday night. I don't know why it's called a slumber party, or a sleepover, there is no slumbering or sleeping going on. They didn't go to sleep until 4:00am. We had 7 girls at the party. Chloe had a great time and there wasn't any girl drama, so all went well. I woke them up to be picked up by 9:00. We went to church, then to my sister Betsy's for a family lunch and fishing at her pond. We all came home to take naps, except Owen who played Legos. Owen's eye still isn't better, though I guess better than it was, I think. The urgent care dr. said it was a sty/boil and gave him an antibiotic, and an antibiotic cream. I may have to take him back to our regular dr. I want it to be better before school starts!

Chloe getting ready to blow out her candle:



Making a craft at almost midnight. Notice Owen had to join in. He refused to stay the night with Mom and Dad. He didn't want to miss anything. He went to bed soon after this:




Chloe and Marley when I went in to wake the girls up:



Chloe with a fish she caught:



And Owen with a fish (Ironically the fish is covering up his sore eye, or sad eye as I've been calling it. He hit Phoebe's hand yesterday and said he couldn't help it he had a sad eye.):