~Girls Weekend!~

This was Girls Weekend at the LakeHouse (or as Cember and Gabby first called it "The Water House"). It is not anything fancy, just a little cabin in the woods. Larry and I bought it about 4 years ago, while Rocky was in Iraq. I spent many a day there working, crying, just being alone, it helped me keep my sanity when Rocky was in Iraq. More about all that later.

This weekend I took all 5 of the little girls, Cember, Gabby, Kelsey, Maranda and Briauna to the lake house for the weekend. Something I tried to do about every couple of months, but since we built the new house I have not been able to do that, So I decided to take this weekend and go. Friday nite, is just kinda a chill out, watch movies eat popcorn type a thingy. I, of course, go in and wipe down everything (this time it has been shut up since we were there in August), just so I feel it is clean enough (not SPOTLESS) for us to be healthy. It was around 11:30 when we finally went to bed, yes Little Bit (Kelsey) lasted as long as the others.

Up around 8:30 on Saturday morning, Strawberry Muffins and milk for breakfast. Then outside we went. The girls played in the cane break at the back corner of the cabin. They made a playhouse out there and played most all day. Gabby became a little shutter bug, She is learning to use the camera and she took pictures of everything, even took a few videos. I am attaching a few. Someone managed to get a few of her and I got some of all them. While they were busy playing and doing what little girls do, I was raking the yard, picking up limbs and burning. We have a fire pit at the side of the cabin and I was burning leaves and limbs in there. I have the Booboos to prove it. I forgot to get my gloves and take them with me. Oh well, My blisters will heal.

We stopped long enough to make a sandwich for lunch and then back at it. I talked them into helping pick up some limbs and we could roast weinnies later. That did not last long, that was WORK! Oh well, every little bit helps. I finally finished and got the fire burned down enough we could roast hot dogs. so they went in and brought everything outside around the fire. Cember and Maranda took turns roasting the hot dogs, Gabby and Bri may have a little, but I think it was too hot for them. Cember and Maranda stuck it out. They really roasted them (almost black)... Everyone liked them that way. Between the 5 girls ( well I had 2) they ate 3 packages of weinnies and 3 packages of buns. I could not believe how much they ate and would have eaten more had we had them, (later I found another package in the freezer, OOPS). Next time I will take more.. I cannot believe how much those girls ate this weekend. We went through 5 family size bags of chips, 1 lb of ham, 2 lbs bologna, 1 lb cheese, 6 pkgs of muffins mixes, 2 gallons milk,,, plus countless snacks. I hope they had enough to eat.

After dark Saturday nite(After baths and head washings), it became Craft Time, We made halloween necklaces (orange, white & black beads, with Pumpkin, ghost and candy corn charms), I think some of them made a bracelet to go with it, Then we got out the craft foam, and made fall get well cards for ms. Norma. Ms. Norma, is a very sweet lady that we fell in love with when we bought the lake house. She lived in a LOG house across the road from us. She is one of those people you could spend hours listening to them tell you stories of their life, or at least as long as she could hold out to talk. She has a lung disease and is on oxygen 24 hours a day. Her and her husband built that log house, It took them 7 years to do it, they cut the logs, debarked them and all. I will try to find a pic of that. Cember and Gabby had to go see her everytime we were up there, that was a first thing Saturday morning kinda thing. Then on Oct. 2, 07 they went over to find a note on the door that she had been taken to the Hospital at around 2 that morning. They were heart broken, we set about trying to find out what had happened. She had taken pneumonia and was hospitalized. We found out about 2 weeks later, that she would not be coming back to the log house, she was going to have to be in an assisted living facility near the hospital. So we try to go see her when we are up there. She just adores the girls.

Sunday morning, was clean up, load up and head out. We left the lake house around 11:30 headed for Ms. Norma's. First we stopped at the dollar store to fix Ms. Norma a trick or treat. When we arrived she had a halloween book marker for each of the girls and was so excited to see them. We walked down to the rec room and saw the huge aquarium and bird atrium they have there, then we walked out to the garden and the gold fish pond, it was a beautiful day and we thoroughly enjoyed our visit. I saw ms Norma was getting real winded, so I said Time to head on home. So we load up again and home bound we are, stopping at Micky D's in Malvern for a burger.

Now I have to unload, clean up, wash up and put away our weekend. Me, I had a WONDERFUL time.. Now to start planning the next one. I think it will be the Stocking Stuffin Party... May sneak one more in before that, Not sure.. We will have to see..

Until Next time, Nite All and Sweet Dreams...

May God Bless you as he has blessed me with wonderful times as this weekend was...