Camping.. Fishing.. oh my!

This post is old, but I've been saving it as I am still unable to edit pictures/words for some reason. Does anyone know what is up with this site? If I upload a photo, I can no longer click and drag it below text or rearrange the order. So I had to redo this post, uploading from the bottom up and copying/pasting my words.

2 weeks ago, Derrick took advantage of perfect weather and camped out for the 2nd time in our backyard with the girls. He had been helping me out nightly with Madeline but I was finally doing well enough to handle her on my own and the kids deserved some fun time that didn't put them after Maddie's needs! Here they are growling like a bear in front of the tent. I missed them putting it up unfortunately! I slept inside with Maddie obviously.. not quite ready to sleep on the hard ground!

They made smores in the firepit and stayed up until nearly 10pm catching firefly's around the backyard. This might not seem a huge deal to some, but we didn't have firefly's in Sicily so they were very excited!!

Last Saturday we went to Chain O' Lakes state park about ten minutes from here. Derrick has been promising them that they could go fishing since we moved here and they found his long lost fishing gear. I have no interest in catching fish but love to sit by the water, so Maddie and I went along for the ride. They each got new fishing poles, Dora and Princess, of course, and had a lot of fun learning to cast into the water and so forth. We wouldn't let them use an actual hook yet since they kept smacking each other enough with the plastic fish and bobbers.. but they did have a good time!