Johnson Campout

Our annual Johnson Family Campout is held in July, but I figure it is better to post about it late rather than never!

It was a fun filled weekend, with huge water slides, lots of good food, fun skits, and great company. Mark and I got to the "campsite" (Mark's parents house for this year) on Friday night. We were lucky enough to have the fifth wheel trailer for our sleeping quarters. I say lucky because it was VERY hot this weekend, and we had air conditioning! :-) As it was hot, we went in one afternoon and took a midday nap. Abbi, as always, was our alarm clock to wake us up. Here she is going up to Daddy to tell him it's time to get up.



On Saturday, Mark got an early start on cleaning out his dad's shop. I know that doesn't sound like a "vacation" thing to do, after all we are "camping." However, Mark and I felt that his parents have done so much for everyone, and his Dad isn't home long enough to be able to go through it himself, so we wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to serve them and help them with this project that desperatly needed done. It took all day, and only breaks for lunch and dinner, but we got it done! A trailer full of trash, and another with DI, we got it clean! You can find what you're looking for, and when I ask Mark's dad how he likes his shop, I usually just get a look saying, "are you kidding? I love it!" We were happy to do this for them, and are happy they are enjoying it!

While the shop was getting done, there was also a HUGE waterslide getting put together thanks to Chris. They got sprinklers going on it, and everyone was going down it. It was fun to watch them go down and get all wet (and muddy). I'm sure it was very refreshing as, like I've said, it was VERY hot!

We also got to enjoy skits by every family. Regrettably I didn't get pictures of everyone as Mark and I sort of slacked on this part and we were putting together a skit on the fly! However, I did get a picture of everyone watching and of Grandma T doing her skit.


Ken enjoying himself watching the skits.


All the kids on the floor watching with the adults standing guard! We even had a curtain for the skit stage!




This is Grandma doing her skit. It was a fun little poem/story. We love having her come to our family functions!

We had great food throughout thanks to the camp cook Chris, and to all others that contributed. It was nice to be able to sit and talk and shoot the breeze with everyone and we look forward to another camping trip!