CAMPING WITH COUSINS (Tony Grove)

 

We started off the Anderson reunion this year at our house.

Donny's sister and niece (Kimala and Lee) stayed with us for a week prior to the campout.

This is a picture of Sadie and Myriam helping  Kimala sew curtains for her school classroom.

We LOVED mingling with them, as always.

They are so helpful and easy going.

This year the biggest lesson I learned from Kimala was to do the things that are "needful."

There were moments when I was cumbered about with work and she helped me realize that

sometimes it is the right "order" of things to leave the house or yard "out of order" to focus on people.

 Donny loves camping at TONY GROVE.

He books it 6 months in advance and hopes to find family to join him.

This is Donny with his brother, Mike.

 

Donny already has Myriam converted to fishing.

They only caught weeds until the morning we left, though.

They made us a delicious fish lunch, which I even liked... and I don't like fish.

The boys were phenomenal at keeping the fire going constantly.

The girls (and Tanner) kept the campground filled with music.

Sadie brought up her ukelele.

This is Meagan and Bridgett singing a beautiful duet.

This is Tanner playing the little violin Sadie gave him.

Sadie and Bridgett borrowed a boat and canoed around the lake. 

 The kids loved playing "Wackie Six" in the Trailer

Donny got a group to play Bocce Ball with him.

There is nothing like camping with family!

So much time to just focus on each other and pull away from the world for a while.

I loved it when I was a child (we had "Stout Camp" every year) And I love it as a mother.