Jackson's 6th Birthday Camping Trip

Wow! what a great first camping experience for Jackson and Jensie.  First thing Yaya fell and scraped her knee and hands, Michael cut his finger putting up the brand new 8 person tent, and Jensie fell out of her chair.  You'll see my face in a picture I was taking of me and Jackson when she fell.  Pop did about all the cooking, and we sure had some good food.  We spent some time at the lake, roasted marshmallows, hiked to the waterfalls, and had the best birthday party.  We had snake venom, dirt and worms and pop made an awesome hedgehog watermelon carving.  We then had a scavenger hunt and the kids enjoyed hitting the piñata.  The kids of course had tons of fun just running around and playing.  We watched the grown men spend about 3 1/2 hours trying to get Jackson's boomerang out of a tree.  They started with trying to throw a football to get it out, but they somehow ended up getting the football stuck in the tree, so they decided to shake the tree.  Brent tries to climb the tree, I try getting on Trent's shoulders and finally they get a rope around the tree.  They spent a while with this tactic, then Brent constructs a sling shot and with that they tied a water bottle with a glow stick inside to a very long piece of rope and they took turns throwing that at the boomerang and finally they got the boomerang, but no football.  Jensie woke Jackson up one morning by pouring water on him, he was having a dream about jello and then he jumped in the jello and realized he was wet for real.  Jackson fell and pop got stung by a bee to conclude our camping trip.  Take a look at all my photos.