The Great Outdoors

Well, Memorial Day weekend came and went! We thoroughly enjoyed our beautiful Indiana weather and spent most of it outside. We started with a day at Eagle Creek reservoir with the Norton's. What an awesome place! Check out the cute baby ducks!!

We got to go canoeing and hiking. I think the bigger kids loved being out on the water even though the thought of falling in the freezing cold water fully dressed freaked them out a little. Kalia was a different story. She was thrilled while we buckled up her life jacket but then she actually had to get into the wobbly, off balance canoe. Wow, did that freak her out. She sat in between my legs the whole time to scared to even turn her head until the end. Of course, she couldn't sit on the ground because the boat was filled with spiders. Kaden and Madison shared the middle seat and Silas took up the rear. It was great! Sy paddled the whole time and I got to sit and enjoy like I was on a gondola ride!! Thanks so much, honey, for being such a great sport and such a strong, manly man!! After canoeing we went off on our hike. Traci had a map of the park so we started by following the map. For some reason we got lost! We stayed on the path, it just wasn't the same path as it showed on the map! Lucky for us we had some boy scouts with us that could help keep us in the right direction! I felt like I was really lame company to be around because I had a bad migraine that day and had taken a muscle relaxant right before we left, but I actually did have fun! (And I got a little nap on the drive home.)

Sunday brought church and more headache but the weekend was not over yet! After church the kids played outside for hours. It was perfect weather! We decided to have a Memorial Day camp out the Smith family way (or Ana's way) and we set up the tent in the backyard for the kids to sleep in. The only problem with this idea is that I am an overprotective, overly nervous mother. There was no way that my babies were sleeping out there alone but I knew it wouldn't be good for me to do it. In the end, I slept on the couch just inside the door with only the screen door closed. This would have been fine except that Boo is a nocturnal pet! She stays awake in the living room. All night. Running in her squeaky wheel. I was too tired to fix this until 5 when I finally got up and locked her in my sewing room. My other problem was that I had to get up and check on my kids every sound I heard! Needless to say, I was extremely tired all day Monday! We got the tent taken down just before it started to rain on Monday and I didn't get a picture. I'm sure there will be a next time though!