We love camping and were able to go for a 2nd time this summer.  This time we went up to Woods Canyon Lake with my sister's family, and two other families.  It was a lot of fun.  I love making these memories with my kids.  They always talk about our camping trips for months and years afterwards.  We always have a good time.

Yes, we only went up for two nights.....

Don't worry we split the trailer with my sister's family.  HA!

 I am still not sure how it all worked out but Jay and I ended up having our big 10 person tent all to ourselves both nights! The big girls shared a tent, the younger girls shared a tent, and the boys shared.

The first afternoon we got up there of course it rained.  It was really loud too!  So we hung out in the tents for awhile (praying the lightning would stay away). The little girl's tent partially flooded so we ended up making them beds in the suburban.  They were okay with this because they could have food in there.  All food had to be put up and locked away each night due to the potential for attracting elk!
 The next day was spent fishing and catching crawdads.  Crawdads are fun for the kids because there are always plenty of them and they are so easy and quick to catch compared to fish.  Us moms got to relax and just hang out for awhile which was really nice.  The best part was watching all the kids help prep the crawdads for dinner.  My kids have all done it before but their cousins never have so there was lots of eeewws and yucks and laughs!  

We were so exhausted both nights we didn't even get to enjoy the campfire, which is my favorite part of camping.  :/

Of course the days went quick and it was time to head home back to the heat once again.  Hoping we can get up again before the weather gets too cold up there.  I took a gazillion pictures but here are just a few:

Cousins

Summer Camping

Our family was so blessed to spend a wonderful week camping with great friends. We spent a Monday-Friday camping up on the rim at Woods Canyon Lake. The weather was gorgeous and the scenery was incredible; however to Nikki and I the best thing was the fact that our hubby's cell phones did not work!! ;) We had no agenda except to hike, fish, catch crawdads and enjoy our families. I would say we accomplished all that and then some.

Pastor Dan cooking breakfast one morning .

After breakfast and even before breakfast some mornings several kids went down to the lake and went fishing/crawdad catching with the dads.

Natasha found a Nemo fishing pole and she would stick it in the water and twirl it around and say "ishing, ishing" and she did catch something......

Jay and Dan rented a boat one morning

The kids caught a lot of crayfish we were able to cook up

By Thursday we caught a total of 18 fish for our fish fry.

Taking naps out doors and being carried in the baby pack for hikes Jadon had a great time.

During some down time I taught Joshua and Savannah how to play "war". They really liked it.

I Love this photo. During one of our hikes the girls collected flowers and put them in Joshua's hat.




I taught the kids how to play Left Right Center. We played with donuts.

We survived our 5 mile hike by stopping at the camp store for an ice cream treat.

During the hike we found several Horned Toads.

I have no idea what is going on in this picture but thought it was cute.


Hiking is such hard work!