Final Pig Roast 2011

The Thew Family had their final pig roast this year.  It was a success as usual.  Many people asked why is this the last year...all good things must come to an end.  It will be missed, but we'll have other reasons for family and friends to get tighter - and I'm sure some of them will be at the river.  Gavin had a great time on his sort of 'camping' trip.  The highlight was the river and swimming of course.

 This is a camping cupcake, he didn't know the difference.

 "Mmm, I yuv cupcake!" in his own words

Those that were there will remember the morning of the pig and Russell.  We won't bore you with the details, other than to say it's a really good thing there were a lot of people who have been to the pig roast before and knew what needed to be done to get that piggy in the ground.

Jason cooking breakfast, he always gets stuck with bacon, but does such a great job. 

Neighbor John has a windmill that Gavin had to go say hi to every morning. 

Hawaiian shirts for everyone, even Gavin :) 

And there's the pig, mmmm! 

Handsome Andy (minus the cigarette) 

Gavin thought Kera's Bumbo seat was a potty.  If only he was that excited to sit on the real potty. 

Jumping & swimming in the ice cold river! 

Gavin actually said "you go first mommy," he's one smart kid!

Woods Canyon Lake Camp Out

We finally took time out of our crazy schedules for a camping trip. We've owned the extremely cool REI tent for 5 years, and yes this is the first time it saw dirt! Our neighborhood put together a group campout and it was so much fun. 15 families with a campground all to ourselves. They had all kinds of fun 'camp' activities for us, or we could do our own thing. We did a little of both.

A view from just around the corner from our campsite. I think deep down inside the thing we loved the most was that our cell phones didn't work at the campground!

Day #1 a 3 mile walk down the trail to the lake. Gavin slept in his own sleeping bag on his own mattress right next to mom & dad. Woke up crying once because he had semi rolled off the bed, his head was on the floor (you'd be crying too).

There isn't any swimming at Woods Canyon Lake so we drove about 4 miles up the road to Willow Spring Lake for a dip in the lake. We waded in the chilly water or a bit, then Gavin decided it was time to jump in. Jason went first with Gavin anxiously awaiting his turn. He loves, loves, loves jumping off docks into water. NO FEAR!

Seville set up an "Adventure Race" for all families to participate in if they wanted. You had to have teams of 3 so we were coerced into participating. We are so glad we did, we had so much fun. Gavin loved it! The hula hoops were probably his favorite. He continued to run through them long after the race was over.

Snug as a bug in his sleeping bag. We had a very loud and wet thunder/rain storm on Saturday afternoon. Gavin slept through the entire thing, didn't move a muscle. Must be a comfy mattress.