We had a pretty nice weekend. I had my LLL meeting on Saturday morning, and both Cole and Ella came along. I bring Ella along each time because she wouldn't be too happy being left at home for those two hours, and it seems really strange to me to not bring along your baby or toddler to a LLL meeting of all places. Cole still gets very upset just thinking about me running to the store without him - something that started up a couple months ago - so he came along, too. There was one other mother and her baby there, so it wasn't too hard to have the meeting with my energetic kiddos in the room.

After the meeting, we took off to spend the night in Lake Wilson. Cory's dad really wanted to take the kids fishing - something they look forward to as well - so soon after we arrived and saw Myron's new (used) camper, we went to the lake.

Here are Accalia, Myron and Cole getting set up:


Myron uses bamboo poles for fishing, and whenever he takes the kids they catch bullhead after bullhead. They caught around 50 on Saturday. Here's Accalia trying to cast her line:


Cory's job was to retrieve the fish off of the line or the ground and put them in the bucket, so he was wearing his thick scuba gloves to avoid getting stung. Here are Cory and Bev watching the action:


I spent the time trying to keep Ella from walking into the lake, which was a pretty disgusting mixture of weeds and other lake life. Between the fishing and taking Ella to Accalia's swimming lessons (where Ella also tries to go into the pool), the poor girl has had too many occasions lately where she's being denied water access. We have to get back to the beach so she can roam to her heart's content.

Since there's really not a lot to do in Lake Wilson, the other highlight for the trip was making a couple trips to the park so the kids could play. Myron also showed us how to set up and take down his old pop up camper, which he is giving to us. We're all very excited about that!

Let's see. We made it home in the later afternoon on Sunday and just spent the rest of the day around the house. I stayed up too late once again, which I seem to be doing too much of lately.

This morning the kids and I did a little shopping, including picking up a couple more chairs for camping. Now we'll all have a chair. Accalia's starts up her summer dance session tonight, which I had forgotten about until I looked at the calendar this morning. After that, there's a kick off party at the library for the summer reading program. Poor Cory has clients until 9 p.m. tonight, so we won't see much of him at all.

Tomorrow will be another busy day with storytime in the morning, art in the afternoon, and swimming lessons in the evening. The Chamber of Commerce is also having their annual customer appreciation day at a local park, so we'll go to that for the games, pony rides, free food, etc. This year Cory made sure to not have any clients so he could come along. I told him there's no way I can go by myself with all three kids and keep them all happy since they all want to run to different things and Accalia wants to spend a lot of time at the craft area while Cole and Ella don't so much.

On Wednesday, we're going up to Mitchell in the late afternoon/evening to being Accalia's birthday festivities (she turns 8 on Thursday). We're going to the drive in to see the Shrek the Third/Spiderman 3 double feature and then spend the night at a hotel. In the morning, we're driving to Sioux Falls to take Accalia to Gigglebee's (sort of like Chuck E. Cheese). Not sure what else we'll do there. We have to get back by 4 p.m. for the chiropractor and swimming lessons for Accalia.

Friday is open, and we might be meeting up with friends at the park.

I really need to get off of the computer and tackle the disaster that is our house while Ella naps. Oh, Cory just called and has a cancellation at 5 p.m., so we'll see him for a few minutes before taking Accalia to dance.