So we decided to go to the mountains with the Swarrs and Hostetters this past weekend!
We started our trip out Friday afternoon with the ladies, kids and Jimmy! (Poor Jimmy~I'm thinking he still doesn't know what he got himself into!). We had a pretty uneventful trip up and managed to get to the cabin and unload everything. We were glad for Jimmy because he could do all the "man" things required (like checking the woodstove, making sure electric was working, etc.). Kev & Shawn joined us later in the evening.
Saturday however proved to be a little more eventful. With NINE kids (ages 7, 6 (3 of them), 5, 4, 3 and two babies) itching to get outside~we suited them up and sent them out with the daddies! Shawn and Jimmy proceeded with cutting down a tree that was on the house while Kevin and Katrina tried to keep the kids rounded up~Riley comes running to inform us that they haven't seen Isaac and JD for a long while and that she spotted bear tracks. Well, Katrina was a little nervous but Jimmy found the boys (they went on an "expedition" without grownups) and all was well....for a short time! I began smelling some smoke and thought well, maybe it was because they had stoked the fire....not so, the filter of the woodstove caught fire....the men came running and all was well. Saturday evening we ate (which is what we did alot of), the kids watched a movie and the adults stayed up late chatting!
Sunday morning we arose to find that it had snowed overnight and was still snowing! Katrina voiced that we should get the Hostetters van out to the end of the lane but somehow her voice was lost in the din of 9 kids.....imagine! Anyway, we probably should have listened a little harder because Kev and Nicole were not able to get out the lane and had to detour thru the neighboring Amish farm. Needless to say~all went well and we arrived home safely after a very FUN weekend!
Oh, here was our brood on Sunday morning!
