Friday, July 25, 2008

Ashby Family Camping Trip 2008

It wouldn't be summer with out a litter bit of camping. The Great Outdoors and smores who can ask for anything MORE!










We had a lot of fun on the traditional Ashby family dam hike. Mike, Paul's oldest brother helped make the hike exspecially memorable. We did some cache finding. Basically we got to be treasure hunters. This activity was enjoyed by both the kids and the grownups.



We sure had fun just being with each other!












The freezing cold water. It's a silly tradition with Paul's family to dunk yourself under this cold cold water. Yes, I too did this when we were first married, and then I learned that I don't have to freeze my brains to be cool. So I take every ones picture. The Ashby's are a bunch of tough guys!



























We had a great time fishing together. Grandpa Ed wanted to take the kids out fishing, so Paul and I thought that it was a good reason to finally get our own fishing license again. All together we caught a total of four fish. Some of the cousins Zack and Isabel each caught one and Hannah and I also each caught a fish. Bonnie had fun catching her purple fish. A little plastic weight on the end of her pole. Connor had a good time looking at the fish and having Dad help him cast his pole out.















My fishing Buddies Call me GRANDPA!





We were excited to have Adam's girlfriend Jenny come up camping with all of us crazy Ashby's. The BEST Camper! We're grateful for Grandpa's and Grandma's that keep up on family traditions.
Wednsday July 9 was the last day our family was up at the campsite and it just so hapened to be Hannah's sixth birthday! She was four years old when she got her barbie fishing pole and at six she caught her first fish all by herself!












4 comments:

Kat said...

How fun! You have such a cute family. You take good pictures too. Glad you had so much fun. You deserve it!

Allison said...

Thank you so much for keeping us posted on all the family activities. It is so good to see everyone. The kids love to look at the pictures of the cousins. We miss all of you so much. We wish we could have been there. (Most of us anyways.)

Allison

Amber said...

Amannda - It's me, Amber...I had been thinking about you guys, so I googled your name and found you! Ha! :)I'm glad to see you have a blog, too. Your family is always so busy and active. I'm so impressed that you're doing the Oklahoma production. You are seriously so amazing, the way you manage to do so many millions of things. Anyway, I hope you don't mind me snooping in on you. Keep in touch!

Holly said...

Amannda,
I was surprised but very glad I found you!(through Tanya)
I miss you so much! It looks like you have the funnest family ever, you got such happy adorable kids! And goodness, you look just the same as you did in high school!
Love ya,
Holly