Camping in Deep Creek

We went camping at the Deep Creek Campground over Dakota's birthday. We took all of her presents up and has a little party for her. She loves to camp and so we rented a trailer and Ryan and Marie came with us. The kids had an absolute ball. There were little guppy fish in the creek next to our camp so we caught a lot of those. Then we went fishing up to the Moose Ponds and didn't do so hot there. I think we only caught three fish the whole time we were there....(All by me..of course) other than that we just hung out and had a good fun time. Happy 6 birthday Dakota!








Dakota and her guppies










These two boys crack me up. Oakley is always asking for Cecil and Cecil is always asking for Oakley. When they get together though they fight! They fight over everything....and when one of hem leaves the other is always asking where he is and when they get to play again!







Marie and Rylin






This is how we spent a lot of our time! Look at that perfect loop!









Two Heels and a Belt Buckle!!!!








James cooking up Dakota's b-day dinner! Oh, do I love dutch oven!!!!!







Dakota and her cake












This is how the boys stayed entertained. It was so funny to watch and they did this for so long! They wore them selves out!

I am so spoiled!

It's not everyday that I get a visit from my best friend! Two visits in one month though is pretty awesome! Even though she enjoys watching me struggle with parenthood(we are talking evil little laugh and smug look here folks) and she spoils my kids rotten( she learned from the best) I still love her! We go way too long with out seeing each other and I am so grateful that I was able to spend a little bit of time with her this summer! Hopefully I will get to go to Texas and visit her next time....Hopefully we won't have to go 4 years without a visit again! That would be awesome! Thanks Cody for taking the pics!

It Runs in the Blood

I think it is safe to say that Oakley takes after his mom a little bit!!!!












Okay....Okay...so he takes after his dad a little too!

Fun Family Nights!

This is how we spend our family nights. It is simple, it is cheap (if you don't count the horses, feed, trailer, truck, gas, cows, arena....you know everything) but it is fun and our family has a lot of fun here. We build a lot of memories and enjoy the company of some of our best friends!
I am amazed at what our kids learn here. Dakota has become quite the little rider and is very brave. The other night one of the horses got spooked by something and she held onto Oakley and managed to keep them both in the middle of the saddle while the horse was acting up. Her confidence level has blossomed so much in the last year! She did such a great job handling that little situation and I was so proud of her!
Oakley is all boy and I wonder constantly how little boys learn to do the things they do. I swear it is bred into them...it is the only thing I can come up with. We went roping last night and he was playing with his barn and animals. He actually made a mud hole for his pigs. He isn't even two yet! Crazy stuff. So what do you all do for your family nights?

Small Disclaimer

My husband made a good point when he came home tonight and looked at our blog. He said somebody could steal your song now and then I made the argument that my friends would never do that to me. However there are a lot of creeps out there that like to pray on little gems like this, so I just thought that I would post a small disclaimer that all copyright to the song below belong to me. I wrote it....I sing it...it is my baby, so please don't duplicate it or anything else for that matter without my permission! Thank you all for bearing with me. I appriciate it so very much!

Attention...Attention...Is this thing on?

At the embarrassment of myself and well probably the rest of my family or anybody who knows me.....I am going to let you preview a little passion of mine. It isn't great and I am no professional by any means but check out this little video and please let me know what you think. Feel free to tell me I need to crawl in a hole and die if that is how you feel and if you like it well let me know that too. Oh and Wylene.....this is for you....Hope it will tide you over until I get a CD made (if that ever happens)

Seven Peaks

The Witbeck family decided to have a get together at Seven Peaks. It was so stinking hot that the cement would burn blisters your feet if you walked on it without flip flops. We had a good time though and the kids LOVED it. Oakley and Dakota both loved the lazy river and the kiddie slides. They also loved the wave pool. We all had a lot of fun and it was good to be able to spend the day with my whole family! Next time though I think we will rent a cabana!




















Dakota and her "yellow goggles!" These goggles have become a staple anytime we hit the water; whether it be the pool or the lake, she has to have them!

















This is some of the group that was there. We spent a lot of the day hanging out right there in the wave pool just talking! It was awesome!




















My poor dad and his white body didn't fair to well this day. He made the mistake of falling asleep without enough sunscreen and boy did he burn! He was lobster red the next day. It hurt me just to look at him!