HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATHRYN!!

well we got another one in the books. this one was trickier because they can acctually put the cars in the garage. so we saran wrapped the bike.

i drew a lovely picture of Kathryn hiking over the hill but alas it was too big to take a picture of.

you know we love ya gal!!! hope you have a great day!

2nd Annual Reneer "Special" Olympics 2009

This is the soon to be famous whipped cream fight.

i have lots of pics to post too. but i wanna get this one up right away. there are people waiting on this. we are talking life and death here people!!

camping at outlet.

This year was my ten year anniversary of camping with the kiddlets. It could not have been better weather. we have had our share of thunder and lightening storms, torrental downpours, and days and days of rain but this year we lucked out! sunshine all week long. Not too much in the way of wildlife sightings. over the years we have seen moose,bunnies, deer, and snakes. luckily no skunks or bears. I am very lucky to have kids that love to camp with their mom. they have to put up with alot being my kids. we had some friends come up and visit a few times and met up with the rest of the Reneer family on friday at Luby Bay.

Home Sweet Home for the next week.

Anna with Aunt Katie

Putting up the tarp over the table. It always rains on us.

Dad playing with the kiddlets in the Priest Lake

The evenings were spent playing games.

Every year we go out for ice cream one night.

Just relaxing.

Here's Johnny! (warning! if you are afraid of snakes, skip this post)

This is Johnny Dazzles. His close friends call him Johnny. Ike was so hoping to find a snake on this trip because he dad said he could keep it for a pet if he did. I DID NOT KNOW THIS!! i state this loudly because i am the one that found the snake a caught it to show to the kids.

There have been very few times in Isaac's life that i have seen him this happy.

I found him at the beach. At the time he was eating his dinner. I did not know that was dinner in his mouth. He quickly dropped it and peed all over my arm.

This was Johnny's dinner. It's a bat. YUCK!! it laid on the ground attempting to flap and fly away. Sorry this is such a cruddy picture. but i was not willing to brush off said bat and pose it for a picture. i was just worrying what kind of dieases this bat was carrying and if the snake had contracted any of said dieases.

Johnny only was with us for a few days. he made his escape on saturday. needless to say the boys were crushed. i sorta missed the little buggar too. at least i don't have to worry about him getting loose in my house.

And so it begins.

The following conversation took place outside one of these.

A stranger approached the outhouse while Dan was using it and Jakey was outside waiting.

Jake:You can't go in there. My Dad is in there.

Stranger: Okay.

Jake:He usually takes a really long time.

Stranger: Okay.

Jake: It smells really bad when he is done. He usually has to light a match.

Stranger: Lucky me.

Jake: No, you are not lucky. My dad did not bring any matches.

Stranger: Laughing quite hard.

Poor Dan was stuck there listening to this conversation about his bowel habits and not able to to defend himself because it was all too true. The worst part was having to open the door look at this strange man in the eye and know that he did leave that outhouse worse than when he found it.

whew!

so, so much to blog about. i have not forgotten you all. i will fill you in as soon as i can close the laundry room door. we are drowning in dirty underwear and smelly sleepingbags ( i think it was because of the lack of underwear)

Off to the woods

I have been taking the kids camping since Daniel (13) was just a tot. I love to camp. Don't get ideas of grandure in your heads. I am a lazy camper. there are no dutchovens simmering away. there are not even hot breakfasts (unless you count instant oatmeal). I am there to relax and waste lots and lots of time lounging on the beach reading a book.

Last year was a very first year without diapers. THAT IS HUGE!!! we have camped through micro tornadoes, thunder & lightening storms, torenchal downpores and gloriously sunny weather. we are prepped for it all. I have learned that a campers best friend is duct tape. there is nothing it cannot fix.

On our adventures and hikes we have seen lots of bunnies, a few snakes(ike brought one home last year that had been run over by an RV. It was so flat we had to add it to his collection), a moose,(luckily it was a female) lots of deer, but luckily no skunks.

I don't like camping around other people so we go to an out of the way spot (outlet bay) and we can have it pretty much to ourselves during the week. i take off before all the crazy weekenders show up.

anyways, i am sure i will have enough stories when i come back to keep me blogging for at least a week.

ADIOS AMIGOS!!