This weekend Heff took all three girls camping outside of Chico with their cousins and Oma. I stayed home and had a relaxing vacation of my own - I like camping sometimes but not pregnant, he actually told me he'd rather I stayed home and did nothing since I'm more work than the girls to make comfortable while camping :) Brian is awesome to take the girls on adventures like this without blinking an eye and they had SO much fun with their aunts, uncles, Oma and cousins and came home SOO dirty on SUnday afternoon!

Big girl Francie fishing with big cousin Kate - they had three fish on the line but didn't get anybody reeled in

Setting up the tent - JJ wanted to "wie down" and no she refused to sleep in the mini pod tent thing. I hear it was a long night :)

kids ready to fish!

Maureen with baby Molly in the Ergo, Maise and JJ who went in the freezing cold water and still manages a "cheeeese!"

and at 5pm Beezy said "Dad it's ok I have milky and pil-low and binky and lie in the tent?" She put herself in her bag and slept for 1.5 hours

Aunt Sarah with "Claraline" (aka Clara and Caroline :)

hot dogs on the dinner table

too much fun with the cousins

and two of their cousins friends from Chico - big girls Francie and Maisie were enamored with

Maisie and Patrick helping birthday girl Maureen blow out her candles

bedtime for bonzos (see JJ's little feet tormenting her sisters on the right?) both girls tried to sleep WITH Dad on his tiny cot at 1am and woke up J who had fallen asleep under the cot. Not much slep for Dad after that until he finally got up at 6am w Maisie

breakfast of camping champs. Heff bought a pack of pink snowballs and a candle at the Williams gas station in case his sister didn't have a cake. I guess it got dropped on the ground and passed around a few times for breakfast. yum