Oh, A Camping we will go...

I've been trying to blog this for the past couple of weeks... but was waiting to put pic's with it... that isn't hapening right now, I haven't had time. So, I'll post pic's later.

Last week was Fall Break. We used to get a full week for fall break, but last year they decided we needed more school days, so now we only have a long weekend. They had thursday and friday. I talked to Bill and we decided we should do SOMETHING fun with our kids. I suggested camping, and Bill came up with a wonderful place.

OAK MOUNTAIN State Park

It is just south of Birmingham. So not too bad a drive, and Rebekah was even able to drive over from school and meet up with us.

We got to go trail riding, they had a little petting zoo, and then we stayed in a cabin by 'Lake Tranquilty'. It was lovely! The kids went out in a row boat (all 6 of them together) and tried their hand at fishing (the very first time, for most of them).

We grilled out for dinner, and then roasted marshmallows and made smores! Yummy.

We played games together as a family.

When we woke up in the morning, Bill made bacon and eggs, and when I got out of the shower, I found that while Bill was cooking, the kids had all gotten up and gone out on the dock and were fishing again.

Noone ever caught a fish - they were a little annoyed that the people in one of the other cabins went out for a short time and caught several, but my kids didn't manage to catch anything, but they had a lot of fun!

missing life...

I've missed so many big events in the past few weeks! I've been fighting with my computer, with blogger, with finding my photo's, etc... so I just haven't blogged. I will rectify the situation soon. But today I have other things so...

Fall, pumpkin yumminess...

I don't know that I would say Fall is my 'favorite' time of the year (I really like spring and flowers, etc...), but, I sure do like some parts of it.
*I love to see the trees change color from green to the beautiful yellows, oranges, and reds!
*My family's favorite meal is Thanksgiving dinner (we sometimes make it a couple of times throughout the year).
*I love to make yummy pumpkin recipes! and my family loves to eat them!
I have a recipe for Pumkin chocolate chip cookies that my family just LOVES! I make it in the fall every year. I suppose (since I use canned pumpkin, and don't make my own pumpkin from scratch) that I COULD make these yummy cookies any time of the year, but it just seems a bit weird, in the middle of summer or the beginning of springtime.
I added the pumpkin cookie recipe to my recipe blog http://www.wendyrfulrecipes.blogspot.com/

Some other pumpkin recipes we like are pumpkin log roll, pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin bread.
Yumm!!!