Thursday, June 11, 2009

Camping with the Erickson's

We got back from New Jersey on Thursday night, and Friday we got together for an Erickson Family Reunion. We went camping in Woodruff.
 The kids loved having their very own tent. Alan and I slept with Savannah in the trailer, and Ellie, Maddie and Ethan were so excited that they got to sleep with the cousins. In this picture left to right is Ellie, Megan, Bailey, Jessica, Maddie and Machesney.

 It was pretty cold and rainy, but we had a lot of fun.

 We had already set up our tent when Cleve told us that we were sleeping in the trailer so the baby wouldn't get cold. We left our tent up, and Maddie quickly made it into the "Candy Store". She was selling all of our treats and snacks to everyone, but she made sure people knew it was "for FREE". She also hired Peyton and Machesney to help run the store. They also had Jackson walking around advertising for them.


 "It's all fun and games until someone get's their eye poked out"
We ended up here on Saturday after Ellie was riding on Tyus' Motorbike. She got out of control and ran into Cleve's truck. I didn't see what happened because I was in the trailer feeding Savannah, but Cleve, Ryan, Chad and Chad were all there. They say that she was going about 20 mph when she ran into the tailgate. It was down, and she got closelined off of the Dirtbike.  Luckily she was wearing a helmet. Cleve said that she is really lucky that all she ended up with is 6 stitches in the chin. He thought for sure something else would be wrong. I started to think so too when we were on the way to the hospital and she was complaining that it hurt when she would breath in.
 After they stitched her up they took some chest xrays, and they say it was all normal. Just a few bruises. She has been pretty sore for the past few days, but is starting to feel normal again today.
 On Sunday when we were packing up to leave, it started to down pour so Sheila took all the girls to her house to play while we packed up camp. My girls love to hang out with their cousins.

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