Thanksgiving at Pine Cove

For Thanksgiving, we joined my family in Texas at Pine Cove for family camp.  This is our second time celebrating Thanksgiving there, and it is wonderful!  For a mom, the meal times are amazing.  How can you not love abundant food appearing before you, helpers to hold your babies, feed them, pour their drinks, cut up their food, and then walking away from the disaster that is left on and under the table?  We had worship times (aka date with husband. . . which is how I see all church services at this point in my life :) ), family devotional time, and a large variety of fun activities to keep us all busy.  The best part of spending our time there, though, is the uninterrupted family time.  Our basic needs are met, and there is no shopping or electronics to interrupt our time together.  We just enjoy each other!  

A mean game of Sorry!

Mom watching all the fun

Gingerbread house competition . . .there were some VERY competitive people (glue guns??), 

but we just made them and ate them. :)

The boys love following their big cousin around!

 Where's Caleb?  Oh, he is just sitting inside by himself demolishing

 the rock hard gingerbread house...

 Horse back riding.  With top-notch lice control (coffee filters) helmets.

 No idea what Caleb is doing.  But he looks cute and it makes me laugh.

 Zip-line!  Joel was super brave.

I need to note that Caleb and Josiah begged (and shed some tears) because they wanted to go too.  

Caleb's legs were too skinny for the harness (we will be putting him on a thigh-thickening diet),

 and Josiah was too young,  

My dad even went!

Minus the long drive, it was a wonderful week full of things to be thankful for!