Thursday, July 3, 2008

Camping

Last weekend our family and three other families from church went camping near Strawberry. The weather was great compared to Phoenix, and the kids had a blast.

McKylah was so good on her first camp out. And of course she slept the night through even though there were coyotes howling, and other kids crying. She is such a good little girl!
To say that the kids got dirty was an understatement. It was impossible to keep them clean because they just wanted to play in the dirt. However, Mac beats them all with his dirt eating.


Drake turned three while we were there. Natalie and Scott brought up some spider man masks, and silly string for the kids. Of course Caden was not too keen on the mask, but he really liked the silly string.

Here are the creepy boys. Enough said.




How cute of an expression does Drake have while we sang him Happy Birthday?



Here is everyone just hanging out.



Preston was all of the kids favorite because he brought up his paint ball gun. He let all of the kids shoot from it, and of course they loved it.


I think that the highlight of the whole trip might have been when we went down by the water, and all of a sudden there was a massive bull that came out of nowhere and was only like 20 yards away. Naturally it freaked us all out when it started towards us. I think that Owen literally flew into the truck. While all of us smart people jumped in, Scott on the other hand decided to "moo" at it. Luckily, however it left after he got some water. Later that night a female cow came by our camp ground. It is kind of hard to see in the picture, but she is black, and is right in the middle.
Thanks to everyone that came. We had so much fun camping, and we can't wait to go again!







5 comments:

N Godown said...

What a blast that camp out was. We're already planning the next one. Gabe is for sure invited.

*Lindsey* said...

It cracks me up that you have a flower headband on Kylah while you guys are camping. She is going to be such a girlie girl :)

Brea said...

Sounds like you all had a great time minus the bull...that would have been freaky! That is one reason camping isn't my favorite thing to do because you never know what crazy animal you might run into. Speaking of...when I was a teenager camping with my family my sister and ran into a moose while hiking!! So scary!!

Denise said...

Looks like you all had a great time! As for me, I like to stick around where there are showers and flushing toilets! This one time our ward had a family campout. There was a hotel next door to the campgrounds...so we got a room and pitched our tent inside the hotel room! Fun for kids and Mom!

echolsfamily said...

Sounds like fun, all except the bull part.Happy Birthday to Caden! Is he 3 now? And Congrats to Gabe on graduating! I bet you guys are so glad to be done.