Past few weeks

The past few weeks have been very busy! We have done a lot of yard and housework. We went to a birthday party, had a small BBQ at our house for the Fourth, went to the zoo, saw fireworks, went to a large family BBQ and saw the Steve Miller concert (in just four days).

This is a picture of Drake's hands after doing snakes and then smashing then wiping them on his face. We had a lot of fun fireworks. A neighbor that is Drake's age is very shy and scared of outside and of course a firework went straight for her she may be scarred for life.

Drake got a Rocket Fishing Rod which Dad is learning to use. I think it is more fun than functional.

Drake swimming.

We went camping at Silver Mines (near Fredericktown). It was quite primitive with only a vault toilet (gross). There was hardly anyone at the campground and some of the areas were run down. The scenery was beautiful though. It rained a little on us at night. When we got up we found a trail to walk which was cool, too bad I forgot my camera. The water was icky so none of us wanted to swim and since there was nothing much to do at that point we ate lunch and came home.