Our weekend spent at the Hidden Hollow Getaway was a wonderful time away!!! It's a big crowd but we only do this only about once a year with this group!!! These friends and families have been dear friends of ours for many years!!! Our families have grown and now the children are making many memories together too!!!
Martha Rose always gets something together for the children. We all hike up the wooded trail and when we reach the top of the hill, there's a sand volleyball, swing set and a large grassy area to play! This is where John and Martha did their best to hang a pinata filled with candy!!! :)))
Nothing beats the good old hard up methods!!! :)))
Baby Zion got to visit the Hidden Hollow for her first time!
And then when the band ripped off of the pinata, Mart thought she could just hold it!!! Yikes! Look out!!!
Everyone dig in!!!
So adorable!!!
Then the rest of the weekend we were on a sugar high!!! Ashlyn loves candy scrambles!!! And even though she didn't want a turn at taking a swing at the piñata, she's got a hard swing and could have busted that cheeseburger piñata in no time!!! :)
These four spent so much time together the past three days!!! They play so well together!
Colson, Jessica, Ashlyn and Ava!
Ashlyn and Ava have been friends ever since birth but they really connected this year in kindergarten!!! Sweet girls!!!
Hadassah didn't go along this year and so Matthew asked to take a friend! Chandler and Matthew played in the woods and down by the creek and in the mud and on their game gear.
All these boys!!! Just another reason why this 10 bedroom, 10 bath cabin is great for this crowd!
Crazy ... always action packed.
I really didn't take near as many pictures as previous years. This is the first year ever that we've had down pours of rain during the weekend. The women stayed indoors a lot more and the kids played a lot in the creek. I didn't take that hike down to the creek once. I kinda wish I would've though because they made lots of clay things from the clay in the bottom of the creek. Bowls, cups, etc.. They set them in the sun to dry.
Our food was fantastic again!!! We stick to the same menus pretty much each year. JR Rose cooks steaks and chicken on the grill and then with Ruthie's extra yummy fixings, we have ourselves a five star meal! Then Dutchie JR has BBQ Chicken over charcoal the next night. Linda offered a "Trim Healthy Momma" dessert that was so good! Sadly, they didn't think about their cooler full of chicken packed in ice setting in their garage until they were almost at the cabin!!! They stopped at another grocery store and bought more! I guess that means JR and Linda will need to have another BBQ cookout. :) Suz and I make a breakfast and then a early supper on Monday before packing everything up and cleaning and heading home. It's a lot of work packing to go ... then cleaning up to leave ... but its more memories and more laughs and more Acquire games played by the men and more laundry this morning!!!
And more tick bites!!! This was bad this year. Each evening, we would pick off ticks from the children!!! Matthew had two. Ashlyn one. Chandler one but the other children had many more!!!
And each year we do a ladies pose. Cheers to 2017!!!
These families are so dear to us!!!
Thank you everyone for another fun weekend and for the delicious foods and help with making this another weekend of fun memories!!!
