This year we went CrAzY and met at Tony Grove for our annual fall picnic. It sucks that you can't take a stroller all the way around the lake - but I guess all my kids will be able to walk it themselves before I know it. One year we took Caleb & the stroller when he was little, and I ended up packing the stroller all the way & Casey packed Caleb. Thank goodness for my super strength!
This digital picture era is amazing & exhausting at the same time. We have SO many pictures of every event & we are all so freaking fabulous it is so hard to choose which pictures to use! Between my camera, Ashley's, my mom's & Angela's - we ended up with 141 pictures. Holy Hannah.
Little Eva earned a nickname on this trip. Whenever some would say, "Where's Eva?" I would say, "Who? Eva Jensen?" Angela adores her (as does everyone else...Angela is just a Eva hog!! j/k) Angela held her most of the time...fed her candy...& took her for a little walk. Boys are strange...the main event of the picnic was catching chipmunks. Griffen is holding one in MY Rubbermaid container in the picture below. I think Milky Way was the chipmunks favorite food. Can't boys just sit & enjoy the scenery? Take a little walk? I guess I will never understand.
My Grandma & Grandpa Hunsaker were able to drive up & enjoy the day with us. I like to see them sit & relax....but it sucks when they are sitting there enjoying themselves & my Grandma's chair decides to collapse. Whoopsie! Derrick was the first one to the scene to help her up & my Grandpa was in his chair still & said, "I'm glad it was you & not me!" It freaking cracked me up. He didn't ask if she was OK...if she needed help...what happened...he was just glad it wasn't him that fell. I'm glad she didn't break a hip! She's one tough cookie. My Grandpa brought his harmonica & that is always fun to listen to. Elder Anderson also came on the picnic. Shades & everything!
My Grandma brought a bowl full of candy & Caleb was in HEAVEN. He LOVED the witch hand coming out of the middle of the bowl & LOVED eating the skittles. He also did a bit of fishing with a stick - he was unsuccessful this trip though. He entertained everyone with a bit of singing. It was pretty cute. Little Deuce Coupe was his song of choice.
Little Miss Taylor & Rylee spent the majority of the time at the waters edge....& eventually in the water (that happened on Casey's watch, not mine!) I'm glad I brought an extra set of clothes! Every time Taylor would throw a rock in she would turn around to see if someone was close by to give a high five to. She really gets into it! Swings her arm all the way back & smacks your hand. She loses her balance almost every time.
The fall picnic is one of my favorite traditions. I love all of the traditions that we keep going & I am excited to have my children grow up with the same ones.
4 comments:
Hi. My name is Angela. I have an Eva addiction. I can admit it! Sorry about your Rubbermaid-ha! Freaking boys.
Looks way pretty. Like always I loved the blog and the story, you do good work.
I took my cd to walgreens to make Gardner Village pictures and the lady was ohhhhhhhh look at the twins and the cute witch, their costumes are so cute.....seriously, she went on for ten minutes. So you have great blogging skills, make cute babies and darling costumes, you go girl!!!!
Cute blog. We do end up with alot of pictures. At least you do something with them. They just sit in a file on my computer. I'm glad you're documenting your little families memories. Wish I'd done a better jog at that.
what a fun day. And funny that Babe, of all people, broke a chair. You captured some pretty picts, perfect place for a picnic!
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