THE STEPHENSON'S: 4th Of July Weekend

4TH OF JULY WEEKEND

Jack, Carrie and the KIDS went the night before to ENTERPRISE RESERVOIR and spent the night in a TENT! Our FAMILY went over Saturday morning with the boat. We played the WHOLE day on the boat...Chloee and Lexie TRIED to ski--with NO luck :) We pretty much pulled them around the lake while the skis followed! Jack tried it later on in the day and it was pretty much the same :) The TUBE we had borrowed didn't have a PLUG so unfortunately we couldn't use it. Mike and the GIRLS fished and Chloee was the first one to reel one in! SHE was so excited! Lexie caught TWO also! Even though there was quite a bit of bickering and fighting going on we still had a GOOD time. That night we went back to Jack and Carrie's camp and fixed DUTCH OVER TATERS, DUTCH OVEN GREEN BEENS, and BBQ STEAK! I brought a picnic cake that I had made at home, and we had SMORES. Now...let me tell ya about these marshmallows...Grandma Hawkes had found these HUGE marshmallows at the store. They're called "CAMPFIRE" Marshmallows. They are 2 inches long and about an inch WIDE. They're a marshmallow on STEROIDS. ha ha! We roasted them and put them on the graham crackers with the chocolate and they were ewwy gooey GOOD!! It was a bit hard to keep the marshmallows from dripping off the sides though :) The food was waaay yummy! The only downfall to the whole day, was this little SQUIRREL. That little pest...he ate through the handle on our ICE CHEST, he opened a MIRACLE WHIP jar and had a taste and ran off with the LID...He bit through a plastic lid on a BIN...what a little nuisance! It was fun to be there again. It's been ages since we were there. OUR dad used to take us there when we were younger to FISH! It brought bake a lot of GOOD memories. Thanks for such a WONDERFUL day!!!