About a year ago, our friends the Daniel's started an email conversation about having a reunion this summer of the original "Young Marrieds group" from church. Some of the crew had moved away, all have added many children to the mix, and we felt it was time to reconnect. So, what better way then to go camping???? We decided on a somewhat central location as some were in IN, MI and MO. So off to Mississinewa, IN it was. After 6 hours of pulling a pop-up and Rachel crying and Morgan and Nicole getting along really well, we made it to the camp site. As we pull in, one of our friends notices that one of the tires on the pop-up has shredded it's tread. "A miracle we made it here" we say. We had no indication on our drive there was a problem. Our camp site was perfect, 8 sites around a cul-de-sac where the kids could ride bikes and play without danger of cars. We had a wash-out of a day on Friday and spent many hours in a Walmart and back at the camper trying to get everyone to take a nap. We had a fun day on Saturday on Lake Mississinewa swimming, BBQing and riding on the pontoon boat. The girls loved the freedom they had to run and play and get dirty without much concern from mom or dad. Bedtime came later than normal and usually after many smores and roasted marshmallows. Morgan loves to find bugs, Nicole loved riding her bike in the cul-de-sac and Rachel had another idea of what fun is. Friday morning the rain woke us up at about 5:30am. Rain on the top of a pop-up sounds like a large hail storm. So we had an awning on the camper and decided to go outside and watch the rain. Little did we know that Rae's friend Brooke had slipped over to our camper and as I look around I see Rachel and Brooke in the POURING rain riding their bikes around the cul-de-sac in the rain, in their pajama's. Not a care in the world just loving being up at 6 am riding bikes in the rain. Now that is classic Rachel Rae. We had a really nice time, and I (Kelly) loved being outside for 3 days straight. The pictures are of us with the camper(thank you Andy and Denise), Nicole and mom on the boat, Rachel and mom at the campsite table, Nicole and friend Julia sitting by the fire and Morgan and friend Kaelyn roasting marshmallows. Enjoy the pics. We will be in NY this week and back on the blog after 4th of July. Have a great holiday. Thanks for looking.
