Oh and the middle picture in the last one is the super tent that Daddy built!!!

Garrett was a Secret Agent and Brayden was a Super Agent. Then there's Tyler eating Italian. And our first night in our new house!!!!

Halloween

Here's some Halloween pics. From Left to Right: The three boys playing in the snow, Carly looking cool as a hobo, Tyler zooming along as a highway.

Also by the way we got our first snow on Halloween!!!!!

Hey there!! Here's some more pictures. By the way our number is 304-249-6235.

We are Back in Print.!!!!!

It's been so long!! But we are now in a rental house and we love it. Our address is P.O. Box 35 Brandywine WV 26802. We are going to back track and tell a little of what has been happening over the last few months. Also we are going to put just random pictures up.

This week in Brandywine Campground

With the help of Carly and the Mike Eye the Game Warden, we captured a black rattle snake last Sunday! Carly nearly rolled her bike on top of him and she heard what sounded like a baby rattle. He was about 3 to 3 1/2 feet long.

This past Thursday and Friday we packed up most of our house and moved it into a storage unit in WV. It was a great adventure with lots of help from the Piedmont Ward members to pack the truck. Brad drove the 26' truck over both Shennandoah mountains without any problems. Brayden and Tyler really enjoyed the ride in the Big Truck.

Saturday we took some R&R at the Massanutten indoor/outdoor water park.

August update

Garrett before his first date Aug 17th




Windy days on the lake
Brayden's first catch!!!

Roysters came a visiting!! Aug 17-19 Sparky the crazy Chiwawa!

Play days

Play days at the campground......Tyler (at 3 1/2) learned to ride the bike without training wheels in May. Now he is out of control!

Brayden has passed 'out of control' on the bike to cruisin' the campground.

Camplife

Mix thoughts about campground life. Actually Garrett is pondering the '16" rite of passage now to dating (hee, hee)

Brayden is a master fire builder (pictures are backwards from his start to finish)

Garrett's Eagle Court of Honor

Aug 20 at the Brandywine, WV recreation and campgrounds at 11:00 am.

Come up on the 19th and camp with us! Its only $16 a night! After the Court of Honor bring you own picnic lunch and enjoy the mountains and a swim in the lake at the camp's own beach.

Directions from Culpeper:

Take Rt 29 south to the Sheetz at Madison and turn Right on Rt 230 and travel to Stanardsville, VA. Turn Right on Business Rt 33 in Stanardsville and continue merging back onto Rt 33. Travel over the mountain and through Harrisonburg, VA. From Downtown Harrisonburg (about 30 minutes more to go) continue on Rt 33 to the next mountain and go over it too. We are on the other side of the mountain at the foot of the mountain. You'll see a sign for Shooting range ahead and then you're only 1 mile away. It's the first Left turn and follow the enterance road past the lake and into the woods. We're the first site on the left!

A bear hunting we must go!!

After 5 weeks of terrorizing the campers coolers we captures this sow guesstimated at 150-160 lbs. After the bear we faced a different challenge...the midnight barking chiwawa!! Killer minature dog who roams the forrest unchallenged! Until last night when we captured him too! Actually, he walked up at 1:00 am and sat on our door step.

The creek

This is the ravine or small creek that runs right behind the other side of campsites. It is great to wade in on a hot day and run the dogs through it. I am back tracking a little on pictures, but want to show what we do for entertainment.

Garrett here. I'll give you 3 guesses as to what's in the pan in the picture. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. You won't believe that it's...cattails! After reading the idea to cook them in a book about edible plants we got adventurous. We went down to the pond and pulled some cattails. next we cut, seasoned, and fried them. They were delicious!

Our cousin Jamie came to vist us a couple of weeks ago. We went swimming, biking, and everything else. Also Granddaddy and Grammy McCranie came with Jamie. We all slept in a tent for the fun of it and sometimes in the sofa pull out. We enjoyed the vist and hope all our friends and family will come vist us.

Ok, here are a few pictures to show the grounds. We have many stories and catching up to do with the first couple months, but we have been sooooo busy. We have been almost full most weekends. Memorial Day and July 4th were packed. The bears have definitely given us a welcome. No pictures of bears, but many stories. He loves the coolers with drinks.