Hannah
Just loved this picture
Running barefoot in the sand, nice thick thorn.
Mckenzie
Yes, he is really that hot....
Ella, Queen of rock mountain
Row row row your boat
Climbing the steep hills, rock hounds...
Jacob
Ok, Thursday, Momorial Weekend, I downloaded a camping list from the internet and then set out to gather up all of our things. I was going to be prepared. Of course a few things had to be washed, and finding everything wasn't too hard, since we had kept all the camping stuff in the garage in one corner. So all was going well, Kierstin vacuuming out the Yukon, and the little kids helping also with their sister. We were packed and ready to head to the hills.
I have since decided that a one-night camping trip is just not worth the trouble taking a full day just to get ready for it. Needless to say, we had a fabulous trip, some of our best memories are just hanging out in the big out doors.
One of our best memories of camping was right next to a lake, I was pregnant with Jacob, who is now six, I remember this well, because....there was no latrine, outhouse, nothing, pure roughing it. The kids soon found the inlet was loaded with frogs, big frogs, and they began their frog races. They wanted to take those frogs home......they didn't!
Ok back to the present. We had outhouses this time and running water. We were fairly close to the river and this was our first trip with our inherited canoe. Soon the kids were off, Kierstin, taking them on a rock hound adventure and it turned out to be quite a crystal mine up on them there hills. After seeing the loot the kids brought back, Jerott and I thought we might enjoy a little rock hounding ourselves. So off we went and we found more than a few little crystals, there was a tiny tiny scorpion, a strange looking spider, and the bull snake with her eggs.
Well, back to the lake we set out to go fishing, but the wind, the wind was blowing a lot. I told Jerott I would hold her steady right out in the middle and he could just fish away. Ha, within a few minutes we were nearing the shore and he would have to help me row back out again. Great work out though. So that is our camping adventure in a nutshell.
Oh ya, the best part was..... I didn't have to pack any of the kid's bags, basically told the two little ones what they needed and that was it. I was stoked, this is definitely a great age for camping with kids.
