A camping weekend....

 I painted the second coat on the front porch peak and eaves Friday morning. That second coat makes it all look so good! Then I started packing up the car to head to Denison to Yellowsmoke Park for the family camp-out. This is our second year going to Yellowsmoke. We like it a lot because there are 2 cabins for us non-campers (my family and my folks) and a place by each cabin for a camper, so my 2 sisters and their families can park next to us. There are only 2 cabins right now, so it was very peaceful and nice on the hill. 

This is our cabin, and the camper next to it.

 My daughter's dogs enjoyed a weekend of camping.

 My folk's cabin. The cabins are far enough apart so that if it was another group of people, you would have your own space. Love that there are camper spaces next to them, or we would be in two different spots. Only the people renting the cabins can let someone camp next to it...the general public can't.

My daughter brought the Duck Dynasty game so those of us that are fans spent some time playing it. What a hoot!

I really didn't take too many pictures...I just forgot, so I don't have pictures of half the people that were there. It was a great weekend, but tiring. Now I'm trying to get up the energy to go out and paint that last coat. Then I will be finished painting for now. I go back to school Friday and won't have as much time to paint then.There is one set of eaves I could still reach, so if I get ambitious, I will paint that too. Most of the rest of the house trim is too high to paint on the ladders I'm using.  I'm not too crazy about going much higher on a ladder either...so will have to find scaffolding for the rest.

Family Camping

 Just so you know up front...I don't really camp. Two of my sisters and their families are avid campers, so a few years ago the rest of the family decided to go camping with them. Some of the Iowa parks have cabins, so we have tried out several different parks. They are all nice and cabins wonderful, but usually the camping is at a distance from the cabins.

  This year we went to Yellow Smoke Park by Denison. There are 2 cabins, with a camping spot adjacent to each cabin. So those of us without campers had nice cabins with bathrooms, and my sisters could camp right beside us.

 You might remember those two babies that were born 6 weeks apart last winter....they both went camping with us. They were both really good and loved all the attention they were getting as well.

I'm tired today, and not too ambitious. Hopefully I will pep up here soon. I did get most of the camping laundry done last night, finishing it up this morning.  I finished quilting my mom's quilt on Thursday and have some handwork to do before I put the binding on, so it might be a good day to kick back and do that with a movie.