papaberry stew

i hope there isn't a lawsuit when i reveal that the secret ingredient of papaberry stew is water that came from the 'deep end' of the lake... it also must be mixed in a large blue bucket, and add lots of sand.  bon apetit!

cameo appearance

vera (and finley) made an appearance on cousin attison's (second cousin? second cousin once removed? drat, where is that family flow chart explaining what relations are) blog today:

http://attisonjames.blogspot.com/2013/08/babys-first-camp.html


and then we also "stole" this picture from another one of attison's blog posts.  silly string fight at camp soles!!!

i need to download pictures from my camera!  we have some more camp pictures, i don't even remember what.

Rodeo!!

We went to cowtown rodeo in nj...

Jumping on the bed

The bunk bed at camp soles...

On a side note, exciting news in the travis household, Vera is in a big girl bed these days! 

Glow stuff

Glow sticks, necklaces, and rings at the campfire... Way past Vera's bedtime 

Happy to be at camp soles

Glass doors

The kids like to press their faces against the glass door. 

family photos

we had some family pictures done recently by devon anne.  i'm super happy with how they came out... here are some of them (grandparents etc, feel free to let me know which pictures you would like copies of)

talent show

sometimes we get to travel back in time on this blog... usually occuring after i get some pictures off of someone else's camera... aunt dorothy, aunt jane, and uncle jim came to visit this past spring.  and a talent show of the travis grandchildren occurred... in general mad chaos and lots of fun:

in a fishbowl

making silly faces...

at the pool playground...

the pool we go to has a nice playground and slides, which inevitably we end up on after swimming 

chocolate beards

trending lately:  chocolate beards...