Camping

This summer we have camped a lot more than we did last year, and ironically i took less pictures. Odd.
Here are some pictures from our trip over the 24th. It  was almost a week long trip. We went up Tuesday night after the parade and spent the day Wed. Me, Brandon, Brooklyn and Parley went down and slept at home Wed night so i could take Parley to his well child check up North Thursday and so Brandon could work. Ky got to stay with Papa and Grandma Jo. The 4 of us went back up Thursday night, and spent the night, Brandon (bless his heart) drove back down for work Friday, and left us up in the wonderful cool mountains and rejoined us and stayed with us till Sunday Morning when we all packed up and went home. Phew, that was a long exhausting trip, but so wonderful at the same time. Just imagine the laundry from a family of 5 after 5 days of camping! :)
There was lots of Can Am rides, 4 wheeler rides, fishing, skipping rocks(kyler new favorite activity) and just sitting around chatting and getting toes done by Aunt Jo.
Kyler caught 3 fish on his very own pole. I think they are the first he has actually caught on HIS pole. It was pretty exciting. He even carried a conversation on with the first fish he caught. Oh he is a joy to watch!

 Benko and Lisa came up...the minute Kyler spotted that Motorcycle in Benkos truck he was a goner. He wanted a ride so badly. Bless Benko, he took Ky for 2 rides. Time of that little boys life.

 The men tending to their dead body. lol. They dug a pit buried hot coals and put the dutch oven in and buried it. We came back from a long 4 wheeler ride to a delicious Roast Beef dinner. Perfectly cooked. We joked that when the buried the coals and dutch oven it looked like a fresh grave.

 This is our friend "Moley" we spotted his hole and set up chairs and watched this critter for over an hour. What a hard working little dude! I have to admit, i enjoyed just sitting there watching him push dirt out of his hole. Kyler was fascinated, and when we all walked off, his curious mind got the best of him and he couldn't leave that hole alone. I told him he was scaring the little guy and to leave it. But, instead he cover the hole with dirt. I came back and saw it, told him that wasn't what a good friend would do, and how mean it was that he ruined that moles hard work, it had taken him HOURS to dig that hole. He apologized, i told him it wasn't me that needed the apology. I went back to tending to Brookie, Parley and dinner. I came back 30 minutes later to see he had dug the hole back out for our "Moley". Its moments like that that make teaching and loving these kids worth it. He asked if the mole would be happy. I told him a resounding yes. Thanks for being a good friend.

 Kids chomping at the bit to go for another ride

 Brooklyn LOVES getting her toes done. Sadly, though all that hard work was pealed off the next day. Just ask Brookie, she'll admit she is a "picker"

 We love Uncle Travis...he went and picked a wildflower bouquet for Brookie, she sadly, denied it. Little sinker. Finally after some sweet talking (look at him down on one knee!), she took them, and then immediately gave them to me. Oh littlest girl, you are a gem. Look at that stubborn face in the pic above! Oh and yes i do dress my daughter awesome dont I!! :) She had an accident and all i had were Kyelrs shorts. So her hand-me-down boots, Kys shorts, her crazy helmet hair and sassy attitude, oh my little beauty i love you dearly.

**Parley was there, somehow he was never photographed...poor 3rd child.