9th Annual Family Campout- "Take Me Out to the Campout"

Every year, the Pawlak/Bach families gather together in Toppenish, WA (near Yakima) for a weekend of family, food and lots of FUN!! This year's campout theme was "Take Me Out to the Campout".
In one word, sports!
This years committee led by Papa Mike was Nicholas, Laura and Mark. (I will insert here that I think Eric also helped out and took on Papa Mike's role in his absence to his new job in Pasco) Anyway, nice job committee!! (Hope I did not forget anyone!)

We all headed out on Thursday morning with our usual stop and meet in North Bend for lunch, to gab and whatever else we do to waste time. Then we were off to the Yakima Nation RV park in Toppenish. First thing we do is set up camp...

We had 9 tents this year surrounding the trailer. Pretty much one tent or two per family and then papa and grandma camp in the "life of luxury" aka the trailer. Grandma Pawlak was in the trailer this year too.  After we set up, it's off to the pool because we are dripping sweat from being in heat that we are not used to.

Thursday evening after everyone had arrived for the day, we all went to the local Mexican restaurant for dinner.
I think we were all up bright and early on Friday morning, despite the "early morning" bedtime of some of us.  We spent most of Friday hanging out, swimming and enjoying each others company. Papa Mike, Grandma Linda and Grandma Pawlak traveled to Pasco to see Papa's office and bachelor pad while he starts his new job. Friday night we had hot dogs, hamburgers and brats for dinner. Then we had an official family meeting to discuss the next day's events and learn who our teams would be.

Saturday morning, the men all got up at 6am to head out for a round of golf-The Pros versus The Joes. Adam was none to happy about his score therefore I do not have much of a recap of the mornings events except that Mark beat all of them. So way to go Mark!! (I'm sure they are all ready for next years rematch-I know Adam is!) The women and all the children stayed back and did some more swimming before heading to Miners to meet the guys for lunch. Every year on golf day, we meet for lunch at this amazing burger place in Union Gap that has huge burgers and serves tons of fries. By the time we leave, we can't breathe because we ate too much!

After Miners, a couple of us girls headed out to do a little shopping (2 hours is not nearly enough shopping time but we made do and I enjoyed the short break from my kiddos) We had to get back for the camp out games to begin! Saturday evening was full of sports, sports and more sports! We started off with a couple games of Wiffle Ball and also played some ladder golf and Bocce ball.

 The flag building relay

 Blue Ballers vs Red Rockets

They made their own beer garden complete with music : )

The final results of game day: The Red Rockets won! (Unfortunately I don't remember the scores) and the Blue Ballers took second. I was on the Orange Mounds and do remember that our score was slightly way below the other two. Oh well, maybe next year! Auntie Laura had a great time putting together ribbons and gathering fun goodies for the kids to receive on Saturday night. We also celebrated Griffen's 13th birthday with a giant chocolate chip cookie cake. 

Sunday morning we all packed up and headed home exhausted but looking forward to next year-the 10th annual! Next years theme-"Family Feud" game show style. I am on the committee and am looking forward to working with the others to make it a memorable one!!