The Bunch Have A Fun Week!

A third place mullet!!!! We are so proud! 🤣

What a great week! T and L went to Falls Creek this week in Oklahoma and, as expected, had a fun, tiring time. D and I managed to get away for two nights to Eisenhower State Park, which now has full hook ups at every rv site, and spent a couple of days relaxing. The only one who didn't have anything fun to go do this week was A. Everyone's gift to her was peace and quiet to do her school work in with no one home!

This year the church chartered a bus to take them to camp and back. The kids were really excited to have nice seats, working a/c, and a bathroom on board. Last year they had their bus breakdown on the way home and it left everyone stranded on the side of the highway on a 100+ degree weather. It would have been much faster to just drive to camp and pick them up instead of waiting on them to get back to the church. This year, with a chartered bus, everyone got to ride on one bus. It was so great to see on Monday morning how excited everyone was and full of energy. The texts from L on the first day were rather long and talkative. Fast forward to the last day and her only text was "leaving now". 😂 I will say that even though they both came back exhausted neither of them immediately went to bed, a first for T, and neither has any visible signs of being sick. After T came home last year with a 104 fever, I wasn't sure what to expect. Their week is still clear just in case something develops, but so far they are both just really tired. L was sick almost the whole week before they left so I didn't expect her to get sick, but T really hasn't caught anything yet so I am still a little concerned about him getting sick this week. He really needs to go to basketball practice this week since he had to miss the past 2 weeks so hopefully he feels well enough to do that on Tuesday. L plans to finish registering for her fall semester this week and A just finished registering for her classes. Summer is just flying by for us. We might not be able to finish doing all the things in the fun jar this year. That has never happened yet, but so far we have only done a couple of things this summer. Great news! Out of the 200 kids that entered the mullet competition at camp, T got third place!!! He hasn't decided if he is going to cut his hair yet or go for first next year. 

They are ready for a fun week!

They get a fancy bus to ride in!

Everyone is so full of energy BEFORE camp.

They weren't in bad as shape as I thought they would be once they got home.

It felt really weird to go somewhere without the kids. This is the first time in over 20 years that we have gone camping without any kids! The only other one that went with us was the dog and that is because she is super attached to me and would be so unhappy not being wherever I am. Unfortunately, it was super hot and humid so we didn't do much outside. We saw several people gathered around the fire trying to have a fun time camping, but it was so hot and humid! I was perfectly fine just taking Maisy on her morning walks and spending the rest of the day going shopping or watching movies. We met C and H one night for dinner and then afterwards went for our weekly grocery shopping trip. We figured we were in town, had extra space in the camper, and it would save us a trip to town when we got home. Sherman has gotten so big that it even has an Aldi, which I wasn't expecting! Unfortunately, they decided on a stupid layout and placed their fresh fruits and vegetables by the sliding doors, virtually guaranteeing that the hot, muggy weather ruined all their produce, so we didn't get any fresh produce there since everything had mold, but did pop over to Walmart and they actually had a great selection of produce so it worked out. We went on a hike, or least planned on a hike, but after only a mile, even at 8:30 in the morning, we were both dying from the mugginess so we moved our walk to the main roads so we could get some air circulation. The funny part was I had only brought the trail map and not the park map! We ended up walking aimlessly around the yacht club until someone pointed us in the right direction!😂 As sweaty and as bad as I am sure we smelled, I am surprised the yacht club didn't ask us to leave! However, it was really pretty and it was fun to see. I didn't realize that some people actually LIVE on their boats at the boathouse. I know in Chicago they do, but that is on Lake Michigan, which is humongous. This is Lake Texoma and it just seemed a little small to live on in a boat full time.

I FINALLY remembered a before pic!!!

A decided to dye her hair black and I think it looks great!

Mr. Murdoch will stare in at me through the window and "talk" to me when he hears my voice inside. Everyone thinks he's my favorite child and I show him the most attention. They're all crazy!(though look how cute he is)!!

We met C and H for dinner at Texas Roadhouse.

It was fun and as a bonus since we had dinner at 4:30pm we made both happy hour and the early bird dinner prices. You know I love a deal!

There was no breeze on our "hike" and we quickly moved to the road in order just to feel something.

This is what normal barb wire looks like from the car. Notice how you can't even tell that there is barbs on it at all.

This is the barb wire around this house and pasture. The barbs were as big as my hand! What on earth are they trying to keep in?!? A rhino?!?!

I had so much fun on D and I's visit to a local winery.

Our campsite 

Denison was a really cute town. They even had live music in the downtown area. It would have been fun to go to, but it was so hot that we weren't really up for it.