Third Annual Peters Family Campout at Tri-Ponds 2018

Let's see --- how to start.......  Well, of course it all started out with us leaving home and heading down the road.   Right away there was a photo moment.   They were putting the honey bee hives out.....

We spent two nights on the road and arrived in time for Austin's Open House - which was held Saturday.  And then on Sunday we all headed for the campground --- Tri-Ponds.  It was a rainy day --- but oh well.....

Love that frog umbrella!!

 But you can still have a special time with people you don't get to see very often.  Keller and Sidney have always had a special cousin thing!!!

And then the weather cleared and we had nice days to go fishing and golfing and swimming and eating.....  Just some good ole' family fun!!

 These two ---- I don't know what their thing was but Halle had a nose problem and Grandpa had an eyebrow problem.   Gotta Love Em Lots!

I really don't know the name of this game but lots of campers had it.  And it is a fun family game.....

You can guess who the winners were.....    But of this game only.   There were lots of other games.  One of them ----- I was way in the lead -- against Gpa......... and then --- SPLAT SPLAT..... he won.

 Oliver wanted to go swimming in the pond so grandpa went with him.   But the pool was probably the winner this year.  We really didn't spend that much time in the water.  Lots of other things to do.

Like a good ole' game of Mexican train.    Also take note of the cute tablecloth.....made with Love by Holly.  

And camping is not camping without hobo pies.   Pizza hobos being the main course....but there were several other varieties.

You can't really see the tablecloth ------ but I made it out of dog, cat, puppy and chicken feed bags.  It is durable and you just wipe it off ---- easy!!! ........also made with love   (for myself though....guess I better get busy making some for others).

 S'mores......always gotta have s'mores!!!

No pictures of the golf outing.   Tri-Ponds has a very very nice miniature golf course.  A little pricey---but then everything can't be free.  And they have a lots of beautiful plants to maintain.

The older kids, Trenton, Austin, Sidney and Mike (yeah, he's still a kid at heart) had to work during the day but they came out every night.      Marti and Tim had other commitments and Oliver still had school so we didn't get to see as much of them as we would have liked. But you take what you can get and we all had a lot of fun.  

On Thursday we had to leave --- so we then parked our camper by Holly and Dennis and then went out for meals with lots of friends.   Ken and Sally, Bruce and Glenda,.......Jack and Pam.......Dale and Barb.....Dan and Deb Van Malsen.....Hazel and Paul.....think that's everyone.     It's always so good to touch base with good friends again and also to see many many more at church.  

I think we will have another one of these next year.   Maybe a change in week --- hoping to get past school days!!!  

We arrived home in South Dakota with 2 grandkids along.....Clayton and Sawyer.    It's been great fun and they are also good workers -- so getting a few things done.

Love to all.

Gary and Barb