Wonderful Wee Webbers: Bass Lake

For the 3rd summer in a row we had a fantastic weekend camping at Bass Lake. We camped with Carey's family and got to celebrate Grandpa Steve's retirement (hooray) and our nephew, Brannon's, 18th birthday:) The drive there was so quick and easy (unlike our last camping trip) and it was so gloriously hot when we go there that we parked on the side of the road and played in the lake before we went to find our campsite and get set up! Haley had been really anxious about playing in the lake (a newly developed fear that caused a lot of meltdowns in the days leading up to the trip) and was so thrilled that she was playing in the lake with no fear! Carey threw the kids as they did cannonballs and I threw a stick for Banjo, who loved retrieving it out of the water.

Hanging out with Grandma Jackie

Keeping busy while we set up the camp site.

We played at the lake all day on Saturday. Haley and Abby's half sister Hannah lives near where we were camping, so she came up and spent the day with us. It was really hot outside and the lake felt so good. There is a rock across the cove we were at that the kids loved to swim over to and jump off of, which they did over and over and over!

Ready to play at the lake:)

Seth jumping off the rock!

Haley jumping!

Abby jumping!

Banjo loved the lake:)

Ummmm...heaven!

Our kids had so much fun with Brannon.

We all had a great time having Hannah spend the day with us.

On Sunday Grandpa Steve rented a party boat so we got up and moving early and headed over to the marina. Everyone had a great time on the boat for a while, then Seth decided he was done and really wanted to go back to the campsite with me. The bbq on our boat wasn't working, so when we went to switch boats, Seth and I hopped off and walked back to the campsite. On the walk back to camp he told me he was "peopled out" and he just needed some down time!

Breakfast with their favorite (and only) cousin!

Haley loves her auntie Kelly!

Seth, Abby and Brannon on the tube:)

Haley relaxing on the boat!

The biggest excitement we had was a black and white visitor that kept wandering through our campsite in the late afternoon/early evening. It happened the 2nd and 3rd nights that we were there. We were all just sitting around and someone (I think it was Abby) spotted a skunk walking into our site. We all jumped up, grabbed the dogs (Kelly and Rick had their dog there as well) and moved up the road a little. We waited there until he wandered away. This happened multiple times!