Father's Day Weekend at the Jig

A few years ago, the Bumbaugh men decided to start a new tradition of a father son camping trip for a weekend down at the jig camping sight.  This was all fine and dandy, until a few of us women wanted to be a part of this great family affair.  So, this year, over father's day weekend, the entire Bumbaugh family and some friends that are considered family, spent the weekend down at the jig.  The biggest rule, made by mine truly. .  .BYO food.  This became a joke after the first night since our kids went around bumming food off of everyone else and had NO interest in the food we had brought on our own.  :) 

Lots of fishing to do, little and big fish to catch. Kelsey said she has now caught 5 fish in her entire lifetime.  :)  She was very patient and loved fishing.  I love this picture of her and her concentration.

Here, Grandma is talking to the grand kids while showing them how to properly make a mountain pie of an kind.   We had all kinds of mountain pies to share. .. oh, wait, it is BYO!!!

Micah and Fawn using their Tiki torches to call together Tribal meeting. 

Happy Fathers Day Harry.  We all went together and bought you a little something.  This Steelers Bean Bag Toss game was awesome.  we even had a tournament at one point.  We drew random teams and then did the whole tournament bracket thing.  Micah and his Mom won first place.

Number 1 Team

Some of the main events that took place were as follows:

Swimming in the snake infested water, no seriously.  you think I am joking.  We found a water snake eating a fish right where the kids were splashing around in the water and Uncle Jeff found a rather large water snake racing up past him while he was fishing in the water.  :(  Yuck!!  We will call these snakes "water moccasins" for lack of better terms, oh, yeah, and for a little added drama!!

They also found a 4-5 foot long black snake slithering up through our camp site.  NOT a fun highlight.  They told me it had been 15 years since they had seen a snake down there, and then we see three!!!  I think they were lying to me.

Uncle Scott showing off his fish to Kelsey and Christian.

The kiddos watching daddy fishing for 'the big one'.  They couldn't wait.  Christian kept saying, "doing daddy?" and then when you said, "fishing Christian" he would say, "why?"  This was a common conversation he had with each and every person that was fishing throughout the weekend.  His uncle Scott started to talk like him after this, and to this day is still talking in one to two word sentences. This might go on for a few months.  :)

Sharon caught a fish and dropped it or should I say it jumped out of her hand. I love this action shot.

A few other things we did over the weekend. .  . eating, fishing, laughing, games, relaxing, reading, and water balloons.  We even had a hand washing area set up and a private bathroom for all the comforts of home, thanks to Micah's fabulous parents.  :)  What a very fun weekend we had!!