Weekend Wrap Up

Friday afternoon the nurse called and confirmed what the doctor thought. It is Bells Palsy, a viral infection, and with treatment it should go away. It was amazing that I heard the phone because I was in and out of the house packing up the camper for our impromtu weekend.

We are NOT planners. We camp when the opportunity presents itself. This time my sister had a spot she wasn't able to use and we snatched it up last minute. It was cool and the forecast predicted rain but we packed ponchos and mud boots and headed north.

We weren't there five minutes and the boys, Gavin brought a friend, had their lines in the water. Dad was still leveling the camper when they pulled their first fish outta the lake. What a great start to the weekend!

The rest of the weekend went fast and was a ton of fun. I think you will get more out of the photos than my jibber jabber so may I present to you the first camping weekend of 2011, gordo style...

fishing in the rain

computer games in the rain

picnic when the sun came out

more fishin'

canoe rental 3 hours $15, acutal use time 45 min before the rain and wind came back :)

even more fishin', I could see them from the camper - it was an awesome spot

it's getting hot out here

no more clothes

burying in the sand, everyone got a turn

boys

And just before our showers (read; sand where the sun don't shine) on the last day we ended the weekend the same way we began it with one super big fish on the line. We couldn't ask for anything more now could we?

Wisdom... recent snippets from our house that I just have to record...

Nora is breathing rapidly while she is feverish..."mom, I think I am mad, listen to my noise."


Addi, when told she was a little girl, " But mom I am not a baby, look, I am THIS looooonnng."


Addi tells her Aunt "I am a big girl, I wear panties all the time."


Gavin gets a kiwi out of the fruit drawer. "What are you eating?" I say. "Zucchini" he replies.


Nora: "Mom is it hungry time yet?"


Addi: bored..."Mom, I think I have to go to Sara's (daycare) today."


Nora at the zoo: right after a goat head butts the fence near Gavin, "Get me outta here...the aminals are gonna get me."


playing hide and seek at our house: Maleah screams from her hiding spot, "okay, we are ready, come and get us"...Addi "I hafta count first, one two free seven ten nineteen, ready or not I am here coming"


Gavin: I spent a little bit of time explaining to my kids about the burial process before the funeral. When we were at the cemetery in a small crowd of family walking to the burial place for Great Grandma Gordon, Gavin is observing where we are placing our feet and he yells a little too loudly, "Hey mom, we are walking on dead bodies."


Maleah: "oh" when her aunt Kim tries to explain what Bieber fever means. A few moment later, "Who is Justin Bieber?" she asks.


Gavin: "I pretty much know every word now," after the fourth time in three days of reciting the prayer of the rosary.


Nora: coming home from being out of the house for the 5th day in a row....runs to the dining room chair and gives it a hug, "I love my house, mommy."


Maleah: telling me about the bullying assembly at school. "and then he asked how many friends we had and some kids said they had hundreds of them...I didn't know they kept track like that." Me: "I think they are talking about facebook friends." Maleah: "oh"

Hallelujah

Man this brings back memories of Acapella Choir in college...I miss it so much.

more Lake Herman

Nora pretends to fish with a stick, Maleah got tired of sharing her pole and convinced niave Nora that the stick with a bit of weed on the end was a pole and a worm. Nora fell for it; hook, line, and stinker :)

walking the shoreline, why have we never been here before, absolutely gorgeous...

a live one...

sneaking sips of daddy's coca cola...what a lover...of all things sugary and sweet

it took him all morning to touch one

Can you see the tooth she lost on Thursday? It took the tooth fairy two days to get here. Darn rain is hard to fly in... btw she was touching slimy things all morning...even putting worms on the hook...

No pants Nora AKA naughty nora, niave nora, nora boo boo, little lou...

squirting each other with the fountain

Lake Herman

Seven keepers

fishing family

Addison fishes from the lawn chair, my kinda fishing.

Nora chooses a rock instead.

Gavin got the first catch and the last of the day

Momma reads by the campfire with a flashlight and it wasn't even that good of a book.

a rare indoor shot of Maleah watching the telly...sorry the setting of the novel I read was in Ireland and it rubbed off on me

bathtub beauties, shameful how these babies make me want to have more, then I am smacked with the poopy diaper reality of life

fresh baked brownies
Addison loves her bike
Nora; rock collector
where's (waldo) Gavin?

...a very very very fine house

UPDATE: Addi just came running into the kitchen with her camo binaculours and said, " I am going to get the BIG one."

I asked her, "What are you hunting? Deer? Pheasant? Rabbit, Fish, Squirrel?"

"She put her hand on her hips and looked at me, "No, mom, I am hunting forks and noodles!"

quote of the day =

mom "Nora do you want peanut butter on your toast?"

Nora looks at mom quizzically and bends and touches her toes, "No toes, mom, SPOON!"

Some time ago the big kids ransacked our old cd collection. One of their favorites is a mixture of Tina Turner and Joan Jett. Right now they are in their rooms cleaning away to "What's love go to do with it?" and "I hate myself for loving you".

And I am praying for no unannounced visitors. Where is that VBS cd when you really need it?

a peek into the past

got an email today from a friend with a small request

couldn't find the words I needed so I went digging

read this

and cried

the LORD has been so good to me, SO GOOD TO ME

Merry Christmas snowstorm

The snow is here, finally. Everyone has been talking about it for days...

We snuck out to Grandma Bonnie's yesterday morning and got some celebrating in. Last night we even got to go to Christmas Eve service, the candles were missing, but it was good for the soul and we saw the LIGHT anyway.

We miss daddy today, he left last night about an hour before they closed the interstate and we probably won't see him again until Monday morning. His employer has gracious supplied him with a warm room with a king size bed and shuttle service to and from the hospital. Now, if the hotel can only keep things as quiet as we do during the day so he can get a good day's sleep...

We will miss family today, too. Christmas dinner will not be the same without the whole crew. We are hoping we can catch up with them for New Years.

So we plan to hang out in new outfits and jammies, eat candy from the stockings, play with zhu zhu pets, parachute with screaming monkey slingshots, watch movies, snuggle up in beautiful memory quilts from thoughtful neighbors, eat cookies, make lego creations, dress baby dolls, race mario carts, drink hot chocolate, watch the snow fall, read books, play playdough, and color. Hope we have time to fit a nap or two in...

We carved the pumpkins today...finally:)