FAMILY CAMPING

What made us decide to go camping in Houston in July?? At least we had the air conditioned tent!! That's right, we brought along a window unit and put it in the door of our tent! It was heaven! But when we weren't sleeping or changing, it was like being on the surface of the sun! Needless to say, we spent most of our time swimming in the lake. Look for more camping pictures from the Meadors... in November!
The wonders of nature! (I think it was an ant)

Claire diced the entire onion for camp sketti

Matthew chopped garlic

Mmmm... s'mores

Stella doesn't like s'mores, but she LOVES marshmallows!

Making a splash!

Where's Waldo? I mean "Matthew"?

Claire loves the water!

I think I was mostly looking forward to the fresh squeezed lemonade stand at the Huntsville State Park! (although it looks like Claire's lemonade didn't get any sugar...!!)

JULY 4TH

We went to our neighbors' house for the 4th of July this year. The kids had a blast in the pool, and Doug and I got to visit with our friends. The guys smoked ribs and a brisket, and Lindsay made her delicious green onion coleslaw.




After dinner, we went in search of fireworks and ended up in Doug's office! There we got to see the fireworks at eye level- we were on the 31st floor of his office building! There were other coworkers' kids there, too- about 10 kids in all, and they got to eat popcorn and candy while they watched the fireworks! And the sound was muffled through the thick glass windows, which was a bonus for the preschoolers.


In the skybridge to Dad's office!