Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Camping trip #1


This past weekend we met up with the Eddys for a quick camping trip in West Virginia.  We stayed 2 nights at Blackwater Falls State Park.  It was a beautiful area and the rain held off until we packed up on Sunday.  The boys all agree that we need to do more camping and hiking--which is good since we go again with their cousins in 2 weeks!


Blackwater Falls





 

Exploring the creek at Dolly Sods-an adventure to get to it!

Lindy Point!

Summer ramblings


Marcus' face says it all!
My blogging frequency has certainly been on the decline.  I want to maintain it since my main reason for keeping it is to remember all these events and moments.  Please forgive me as I catch up in a choppy manner.

Since my last post, we have had:

  • Stephanie's wedding!

  •  Finished a homeschool year.
  • Completed another year of Little League with ace pitcher, Zach and cool catcher, Eli.


  • Celebrated 4 year old birthdays and 9 1/2 year old birthdays.
  • Had our first buzzcuts and then mohawks (sigh)!
  • Marcus learned how to ride a 2-wheeler.


  •   We've driven to LFR, Duck and back.


LFR gang 2016

  • Went tubing with Uncle Michael (Aunt Jan and Big Marcus too).


  • Got to visit Nana in her North Carolina home.
  • Celebrated 15 years of marriage!
  • Picked crabs and had Bri and Nathan come visit.


  •  Spent a lot of time with the Wilhelm boys (while Lisa is in the hospital).





  •  And we enjoyed the following Marcus moments..




  • Marcus is a loud, boisterous, relentless child.  Sometimes his exuberance is exhausting.  One especially energetic day Steve said, "Marcus! Cork it!" to which Marcus responded, "Ok. (pause) What does 'cork it' mean?"


  • While in Mississippi at LFR this summer, the boys raced to our cabin ahead of us to get changed for swimming.  We opened the cabin door to Marcus stripping off his clothes in the living room doing a very loud baseball cheer "I'm fired up, you're fired up-Yeah! I'm fired up, you're fired up-yeah!"

  •  Oh, and Marcus learned how to raise his eyebrows. 

Eyebrow trick2 from Marcia Miller on Vimeo.