July 4th weekend…

I’m running behind on my blogging… ‘cuz Summer’s keeping us hopping! But we had a GREAT 4th of July weekend in the pines with some GREAT friends, the Buchanans (also know around here as the “Puke cannons”. I know, we’re gross!) They were nice enough to invite us to their family’s cabin for the weekend. I was a little laid up with my recent knee injury (more to come about that later)…

But the rest of the fam had a BLAST here…

The cabin was right on the creek, so the kids spent most of their time building a dam, and chasing down crawdads. Here are some pics from the weekend…

They even got the dads involved in the dam building and crawdad hunting…

Here are all the kiddos standing on their dam…

Eventually, they cooked up the crawdads. The boys were so proud of their catches.

Chandler dug right in, and seemed to think it was kind of alot of work to get just a little bit of meat. But he was still happy to do it…

A few kids wouldn’t try them. I don’t really blame them, cuz I thought it was pretty nasty, too.

 

Tatum’s looks were the funniest. She was pretty grossed out by the whole thing.

 

She finally got brave enough and picked one up, and after trying some, she really liked them.

During the weekend, we also took a trip to the local fish hatchery.

I was a little freaked out, and kept my distance since fish are SO not my thing, unless they’re cooked and swimming in lemon pepper and butter. ;)

But, the rest of the kids loved all of it.

 

The boys also spent alot of time fishing during the weekend. They eventually caught a little one that they gutted and bbq’d for dinner. Those little boys are too cute! (That’s as close as Shelby would get to any living thing they spent the weekend looking for. She’s my girl!)

 

Thanks again, “Puke Cannons” for a GREAT weekend!