Monday, September 1, 2008

Fishusses!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 things I LOVE about campin!


  1. Family FUN and laughter

  2. floatin in the river

  3. SLEEPIN IN A TENT....with my sweet lil battery operated fan that Brian bought me

  4. the campfire...singin songs on the rockstar rock

  5. Brian gets to feed his fishusses....and be with the family, HIS DREAM!
  6. one more....its really fun when we take fun friends like Connie, Greg, Nick and Anna
  7. Ok, 2 more....watching Brian run to everyone's rescue on the river (he always plays superhero to everyone that gets stuck, hurt or their canoe turns over. It's sexy watching him save lives:)

We went campin with our good friends, The Glors this weekend. I have come a long way with camping since my first girl scout camp out at age 9. I cried for my mom and my dad had to come to the camp at midnight and take me home. I never really camped as a kid so not much experience. Brian has taught me how to be a good camper. Right after we got married he took me camping and it stormed really bad. The tornado sirens were going off and everyone in the whole camp was packing up and leaving but my husband WAS sure it would stop soon. We stayed in our leaking tent and got soaked, lol. He finally decided we should load up our stuff and sleep in the back of his S10 truck . Yep.... us and ALL our stuff. It was crowded but newlywed FUN! Since then I have camped a lot. I can't say that I always LOVE it but Brian would now say that I am a trooper and what I do love is that the kids love it and he has given them such an appreciation for nature. I would never want to be the one that spoils that especially for the girls. I want them to be tough girls when it comes to camping (so many grown up girls seem to hate it)and learn to make the best of it even in the most remote situations. Which is what we have camping with their daddy! No toilets, no showers.




Brian caught a 21 inch trout....WOW! (anything you would like to add honey, I know I didn't go on about that fish enough...fill em in!)

Introducing Gregs first trout at age 50.....yay for you. Brian loves helping people catch their first trout or witnessing it anyway.


Me n Con had fun being silly on the river. We floated on rafts down the river starting at our lot heading towards the falls and almost drowned....yep it was quite humorous. We managed to retreive our flip flops and our drink though. We could not STOP laughing. It was so funny. Several canoes of guys were cracking up at us and told us they wish they had their video camera for utube. We were glad to be of entertainment to them that day, HA!




Omg, look at Annas marshmellow.....it is completely charred.


Makin eggs and bacon:)

Sarah and Brianna decided to get creative and decided to roast a grape and fry a smore....here are the results!



Landon (above). Nick, Sarah, and Brianna (below)






8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey baby-
I love your blogs!
Carli's favorite thing was singing on the rock. She said 'it was wiggly and kinda scary but we were brave'.

Mayli's favorite was swimming in the river and going down The Falls in the tube.

Glad we all got to go and had an awesome weekend!
Love, Daddy

Mom to 5...Daughter of the King said...

Isn't that what marshmallows are supposed to look like???

Anonymous said...

Oh my gosh that marshmellow was so funny! Yes we had a blast. Even though we seen our life pass through our eyes crashing into the rocks. I saved our drink! Then our flip flops that we thought we lost were floating beside us!

Anonymous said...

I am glad to see you LOVE camping too. I love it. Maybe I can come up and camp with you guys sometime. LOL....No, I really love camping...some of my favorite memories with my kids are when we have been camping.
You know the funny thing is that the first time we took Jill camping is with us and it was quit funny. You'll have to ask her the story one day. She had NO clue about camping.
Love the pictures.
Missy

The Graham's said...

Not too long ago we were looking at old videos and we came across the camping trip with you guys. The one where Lindsey and Landon were down by the water and Lindsey was taking off all of her clothes!HA! What great memories we have with you guys. We do miss you so very much, but the blogs help.
Love you,
Cam-n-Laura

Mission To Macie said...

what a fun trip!

you knopfoos are so fun!

we miss you! and if these hurricanes don't stop coming our way......you are going to have unwanted house guests from mississippi! LOL

Jill :)

Anonymous said...

Brian, you are such a great father and you have such a wonderful family especially that wife of yours :) Happy Birthday! Hope your next year is filled with many more memories!
Love
Percivals

Anonymous said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIAN!
We can say with confidence we saw a very happy guy on Sunday with his two little girls in the fishin' boat! You looked like you were having a great time being on the water! We wish you all the best, you deserve it! Have a wonderful Birthday. :)
Scott & Courtenay

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