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So based on the title this is basically a combination of all the posts I have missed, all jammed together.  Actually it is all about our annual Memorial Weekend Camping Trip.  But I can tie it all together.  Just watch.

Parenting Practices:  Always make sure your toddler uses appropriate safety gear when handling fires.

Reckless Recreation:  Using bright lights to shoot parents is not advised (camera shoot, not gun shoot).

Wordless Wednesday:                                         (it's wordless!)

L.S.N.E.D:  Portable dog water bowls make good head coverings in a pinch.

Parenting Practices:  There are lots of extra adults at camp to watch the children while you relax and eat bonbons tend to camp duties.

Deep Thoughts:  Meet Sloopy, Dana's rescue dragon fly.  It takes a special soul to care about the health of a drowning dragonfly.  Do you have it in you?

Family Friday: Working together is what it is all about.

Family Friday:  My dad (on a Sunday)

Wordless Wednesday:

Bust a Move Saturday: Walking dogs can be a good motivation for exercise and I think this particular situation helped Mary Lou actually "bust a move."

L.S.N.E.D.: Multitasking is the key to success

Family Friday:  Everyone should be as lucky as I am to have a mother like mine.  This picture represents her stellar grandmotherly qualities as well (Ben gave her the crown).

Deep Thoughts:  Dad deep in thought

Reckless Recreation:  Doesn't this look blissful?

Family Friday:  Careful of this one, he's a charmer or a time waster as my grandparents say.

Parenting Practices: A good parent lets their kid swim at camp, in May, regardless of temperature and risk of hypothermia.

Reckless Recreation:  We call her the Dragonfly Charmer.  It is a gift the runs in the family I guess.

All jokes aside, we had a marvelous weekend filled with great food, even better people and amazing weather.  The only downside was the lack of loved ones who couldn't be there.  I really do feel privileged to be part of such an amazing family.