I believe that Campbell was the first one stirring this
morning. She was
ready to talk this
morning so after a bit of early morning talking, we headed down for
breakfast. The breakfast casserole was
cooking so everyone sat around for a few minutes before eating. Most of my kids really liked the sausage and
egg casserole so I may have to cook it at home.
Soon everyone was stirring around and heading out the door.
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| Ultimate Frisbee Match |
Everyone but my crew and Grandpa went floating. We opted for Mountain View and the Ozark Folk
Center. Yesterday, Dana tried to get out
of this place that we are staying and was not able to. Her car kept sliding backwards on the rocks
and steep hill. Robby wasn’t too
concerned since if all of these church vans and buses can make it up the hill,
then so could our van with our V10 and towing package.
By the time we left this morning, the church groups that
had filled this place yesterday were on their way out. And I guess the hill is really a problem
because they had folks with walkie talkies as each end giving cars the go ahead
before they headed up. So we had to wait
a few minutes for all of the vans to get up the hill before us (they probably
just thought we were part of the same group!)
Thankfully, we didn’t have a bit of problem going up the hill.
The GPS took us one way to Mountain View even though the
signs pointed another way. I am sure
that both ways were equally scenic but our way was pretty curvy. It still took us less than 45 minutes to get
there so that was really good.
Our first stop was the folk center and it was a pretty
good stop. We have been to better
reenactment places (including the Historic Arkansas Museum at home). This one seemed a bit dated but they are
doing construction on it so maybe that will change.
They had various little buildings to enter to learn about
different crafts and we pretty much hit them all. There was the gun maker who gave us a great
spiel about how they shot a gun and even made it flash. After writing that about the gun, I realize
that I don’t even know what kind of gun it was or really do I know what he made
it do-there was smoke and a flash. My
kiddos stood perfectly still including Keaton while listening to this man talk.
They had a one room school house, a leather making place
and a candle maker. At the artist place,
some of the kids colored on a piece of paper.
The blacksmith tied a knot in a piece of metal which was cool-he also
said that he had made his own prosthesis leg which was pretty cool. The soap making lady showed the kids how to
tie up soap in a washcloth so it looks like a bunny. And my favorite was the doll maker. She demonstrated how to make a doll out of
corn husk (someone same some corn husk for me).
It was a little flat doll that could be used for a bookmark. And since school is starting soon, Robby
asked Reagan if she wanted one. She
didn’t at first but then changed her mind and picked one out.
The big 3 went to a little kid place and made a pinch pot
out of clay. They had fun doing this
while Whitman had some milk and Keaton and Campbell watched the fish. Then we climbed the hill and listened to some
live folk music. It was pretty nice and all
until Keaton fell. I was wearing Whitman
so wasn’t much help. I quickly moved her
to Robby so he could take her soon to be screams away from the music. As he turned the corner with her, I saw the
blood gushing out of her mouth and grabbed the wipes and followed him. The poor thing had busted her lip pretty good
but after a bit of ice she was fine.
Though all day long, she has been touching it and licking her little
lips. It must have hurt pretty badly.
But on our way out of the folk center, Robby bought the
kids all a peppermint stick so that made Keaton forget about her fall. And the next stop really made her forget
about her fall-ice cream at the town square.
Reagan, Anderson and Graham all had mint chocolate chip, Campbell had
chocolate, Keaton had cake batter and Grandpa had strawberry. Campbell had on a white shirt and I tried my
hardest to keep that shirt clean-she had napkins tucked in her shirt, sitting
in our lap, napkins on the table and napkins in her hands and still she was a
mess when she was finished-I guess that is a sign of good ice cream.
Afterwards we headed back to the cabin. The canoe-ing crew beat us by a few minutes
but they were still sitting down eating lunch when we arrived. After lunch, the kids took a walk-Donna took
Lilly, Cash and Zach, Grannymom took Keaton, Campbell, Graham, Reagan and Anderson,
Dana walked to find the others and never did and Shelley set off for a hike on
her own. She made it a bit down the
trail and then decided she didn’t like being all alone in the woods (very good
decision) and turned back.
Everyone being gone for a few minutes, allowed Robby and
I to catch up on some laundry and to start a bit on supper. Tonight was our night to cook. And we had to start a bit early because the
meat was frozen-somehow one of the fridges got bumped and was turned to cold
cold and everything froze. When the
crew, returned it was already nearing 4 and we tried to put Keaton down for a
nap.
She must have heard the others putting on their bathing
suits because she was ready to “wake up” and she let most of the house know
about it. So we got her up and headed
down to the creek for a bit more swimming and water gun fights this time. The kids enjoyed the water guns but they were
just as happy looking for fish and skipping rocks. It was a bit cloudy by this time and Dana
took one for the team getting in the water to entertain the kiddos.
Soon, everyone was migrating back inside and getting
ready for supper. We had bbq, baked
beans and French fries. We would have
had potato salad had it not been frozen.
And then for dessert we had coca cola cake. The cake was pretty much finished off by the
time that we started shoving dished in the dishwasher.
I knew the group was outside playing something but worked
in a the kitchen for a bit. Then I went
outside and sat with Keaton taking pictures of all of the action. Soon I was playing in the ultimate Frisbee
game that was going on. I believe that
we are going to have to have a Dennie family rematch because the teams just
weren’t too fair. The losing team was
Dana, Josh, Anderson, Cash and me (only at the end). Even though we had the most grownups we still
were put to shame. Shelley and Jenna are
pretty ferocious!
After the game, we were all hot and sweaty. Some had watermelon and others grabbed
something to drink. When we arrived at
the cabin, we were the last ones here and had to make room to put all of our
drinks in the fridge. Seriously, we all
had the fridge completely stocked with drinks but we are not down to the bare
minimum as far as beverages are concerned.
No need to worry though, we kept some back up in the car.
The kids played for a bit-some inside and some
outside. Graham showed out tonight and
was put to bed early. Campbell was not
too far behind him. She kept saying “but
I made good choices” which she did but she was tired and needed to come to
bed. Anderson and Reagan stayed up the
longest and eventually went to bed after Whitman finally went to sleep. I am probably the only one up in the house
right now and am debating going to check on and fold my laundry or just going
to sleep and doing the laundry in the morning.
Hmm, decisions, decisions.
