1st Annual Cousin's Camp

Last week I had a couple of days off so rather than try to pick which grandchild could come spend a summer night at Nana's house I decided to have a "1st Annual Cousin's Camp"! We all had a great time..........sure did miss the Ohio & New Yorker's........hoping they will be here next year!

A fun picture before the play room looked well played in!

The old tractor is always in much demand!! My parents bought it when Brian was about 2 years old at a garage sale. Loren restored it to it's original condition when Cody was 2. It dates back to 1965! Hard to believe it's getting close to 50 yrs. old!!!!

Landon making sure that we have fire before helping Papa cook corn.

Hailey & Nana made the "Dog House's". Some people call them "Pigs in a Blanket", we've always preferred to call them "Dog House's". Dog Houses, French Fries and Corn on the Cob..........totally kid food! Great job Hailey!

Landon is raising his hand to answer the question that Papa asked..........."What grandkids are missing from our "Cousins Camp" table? They got them all right...........Zeke, Mya and Emily! We sure missed you guys!! Oh, yes...........one in the hatch, due in January........Brian and Angela have entered the world of a "large family"............good luck guys and hang on!

Claire thought everything was ok if it had catsup on it!

Even washing your hands can be fun!

Only Papa's will let you run the rototiller............even though it made Nana very nervous!!

Papa and some of his girls.

Cheeze!

Popsicle time

Nothing like a Popsicle on a summer evening

Sometimes Nana & Papa do things without asking parents...........we decided to celebrate 4th of July a little early!

Uncle Cody is always a big help!

When your at Nana & Papa's house you never have to wash your face and you can play with fire when your only 21 mos. old!

Sometimes being the oldest means that you get to have 2!

Back inside and time to make cinnamon rolls for breakfast in the morning!

There was the "girls room".............

....... and the boys room!

When your the first to wake up in the morning, you get to pick your own T.V. show (if Nana can figure out how to work the T.V, without waking up Uncle Cody) and you get Nana all to yourself!

For breakfast you have a wonderful choice of ..........totally sweet cereal, doughnuts and or homemade cinnamon rolls and of course you top it off with hot chocolate and tons of whip cream!

.............then back to the playroom, where finding the floor becomes increasingly more difficult!

If you older, you get to play Wii!

then there is also the piano, we had some beautiful solo's!

O.K. at some point Nana does make you change your clothes, brush your teeth and if your a girl, line up for braids!

then it was time for the little girls to go off shopping..........

while the older ones, snuck away to resurrect the "old" tree fort!

............complete with killing all the spiders and critters first!

The oldest always goes first...........

..........followed by the youngest!

Ahoy! Like Christopher Columbus we arrived!

The view from the other side of the yard...........shows how secluded this little fort is! Now the little ones won't know were we're at!

...................meanwhile back in the house the girls do some serious shopping!

..........always complete with a purse (from the 60's, thanks to Nana's old dress-ups)!

..........sometimes the purse is bigger than the girl!

...........but cousins are always there to help!

if you can't reach it and Nana's not around there's always a chair!

Sometimes you drive nice cars to go shopping..............sometimes tractors!

All fun things must come to an end! There was Peanut Butter and Jelly, Peanut Butter only, Jelly only and, no thanks I don't like Peanut Butter! Nana didn't know there were so many ways to make lunch!

Sad goodbye's...............but we're already making plans for the 2nd Annual Cousins Camp, 2010!

Thanks kiddo's for the fun time!

Luv,

Nana