Sunday, July 27, 2008

Bob's Pig Roast

Yesterday we drove about an hour up into the mountains for Bryan's co-worker's BBQ/pig roast.
There was tons of fun stuff to do!

They stuffed and started cooking the pig Friday night, and 1/2 of the day Saturday




Our friends, the Vinisky's were there, too. Riley was very interested in the pig

Abbey was there too, but didn't want her picture taken because she got stung by a bee, so she hid behind Scott ;)

Rylan was excited to be allowed "POP!"

Brayden too! Rebel.

Bryan taught the kids the rules of Horseshoes



This is Bob's cottage



Safe adult supervision of kids with heavy throwing objects (horseshoes) beer in hand. ;)
Bob's friend has a private lake down the road, and urged us to go fishing!
How many men does it take to untangle fishing poles?



You can see some fish in the water

Scott's big catch


Riley's highlight of the fishing trip was playing with the minnows

We plan to come back and camp soon, and try out the canoes

Year round permanent camp site! The owner was VERY nice and said we can come use it any time we'd like! We will SURELY take him up on the offer!


Rylan loves dragonflies and asked me to get a picture


Bray's big catch

When we got back to the cottage, we found a "tarzan swing" in the woods! Its a very long cable line with hose for grips. There is a wooden platform to swing off of, but we didn't feel it was safe for the kids. Well, truthfully, we knew the kids are strong enough to handle it (and the kids thought so too!), but we wouldn't be able to live with the guilt if something were to happen.

here's the cable line


I HAD to get this pic- can you SEE his second thoughts?
He went for it!

Brayden: Get Ready,
Get Set,


Go!

High Ry












Monarch Butterflies are in our area!

We've been hunting the larvae since we went to the field training.
Finally, Friday evening we found 2 tiny larvae, one very small, and one egg! They are SO small, we are housing them in petri dishes until they are bigger. I have larger set ups ready for them, and MORE if we can find them ;)

This is the big guy


These are the 2 smaller ones

They are hard to see, but are beside each other, on different leaves

Close up

Pirate Game!

Bryan took the kids to the Pirate's baseball game last Thursday while I was at work. Both the weather AND the kids cooperated for a very nice male bonding evening. They were *very* close to catching a home run ball!