Froggy Queens

Today, we had some friends of ours over, the Sherveims, and we all went swimming.  It was so hot that the crayon we left out on the porch melted!  So, we went 6 miles down the road to Tamarack Lake.  It didn't take long before we realized, with the combination of plastic bags, potato chips, ant larvae we had been playing with, and lots and lots of minnows, we could easily go fishing.   
If you drove by Tamarack Lake that day, you would have seen about 12 children, with 8 of them involved in various activities such as:  hanging as far off the dock as possible without falling in, walking through shoulder-depth water with plastic bags for nets, diving and grabbing fish with their hands, and so on and so forth.  All of them were eating Girl Scout cookies and chips, while feeding the rest of the snacks to the fish.  Also, all were laughing and screaming.  
After about two hours of fishing and not catching a single minnow, we decided to catch frogs instead.  We (meaning me, Sadie, Isabel, Aubrey, and CeCe) went wading through knee-high swamp grass, mud, rotten logs, litter, old beer bottles here and there, and leaves, to find these frogs.  We (after much struggle) caught every frog we could find and put them all in a potato chip bag.  ( :
I, however, was not very gifted at the sport, and I chased a frog around in circles with the aid of a 6 year old in a swamp for several minutes.  I never did catch it. 
Surprisingly, we were not all that dirty when we came out.  The mud felt very good, and the 5 member Froggy Queens team conquered the 7 member Fishy Royalty team, as we caught and tortured (and killed some) 11 frogs, and they caught not one fish.  What's more, is that they had bait, and tackle (if you call plastic bags tackle), and we used our bare hands and not a stitch of bait.  And we STILL won. 
We got home, and decided to go outside once more and do a play.  This time it was just me, Sadie, Liza, and Shannah.  We did Parables from the Bible (dramatically, of course) with pizazz!  We did all we could to include as much drama as possible.  It was incredible!
 First we did the one with the man who is praying pridefully and dramatically in the Temple.  He is praying to get attention, and another man comes in and prays humbly, from his heart.  
I was the crazy proud man.  It was incredibly fun...
We then did the one where the old woman gave all she had (two coins) and was mocked for it.  I was the cameraman in that one.
In the next one, I was the man who mugged the guy who the Good Samaritan rescues.  I loved mugging my sister!