Saturday, July 11, 2009

Carrens Family Vacation 2009

This picture summarizes the whole vacation. Mama's determination to catch enough fish for a fish fry. Unfortunately, we only caught enough Perch to eat as a side dish for lunch, and the turtles ate all of the catfish we caught.





























The fam thoroughly enjoys dock time.













Including Gracie!













The blind leading the blind. Jenna has taken a handful of violin lessons, so she is teaching Uncle Jerry how to play his violin.










Uncle Jerry was bored. He prefers more active games. Wish you could have been there for Catchphrase. It was quite entertaining.








Matt spent most of his time reading up for our Ireland trip.






Tara, Christine, and Sara were excellent fishermen.















It's becoming a tradition for Matt and I to cook breakfast (mostly Matt actually). This year's main attraction was blueberry pancakes!














All tuckered out after a huge breakfast. Even Lucy was resting, and that doesn't happen very often.













Later that day...we went tubing. Now, at some point in life, tubing can be more painful than fun. Please ask my mom to tell you how she thought I broke my back when I flew up in the air followed by my legs coming up over my head. My toes almost touched the front of the tube. Naturally, I scored some major lower back pain for the next couple of days. Despite that, we had a great time, especially riding around the lake.










That's the end to another relaxing family vacation!

Happy 26th Matt!


Is he cute or what?



















Faith insisted Matt have this cookie cake and wrote his name in icing herself. Quite the little homemaker.







Chandra hit the big 5-0 the day before Matt's birthday.










Everyone was much more interested in her red velvet cake than Matt's cookie cake.











The boys were a little bored and finding things to climb and throw in the backyard.











Everyone had fun, including Lucy!