Father and Sons Campout 2011

This weekend Big J was able to go on the Father and Sons camp out. He has taken Little D once and this year he was able to take both boys!. They were very excited to be able to go. They went up on Friday and came back at about 2 on Saturday. Big J said that they all had fun and that it was a good trip. Little D agreed and showed me his bite!

Apparently he was bitten by a lizard that he caught. Little C was so exhausted he fell asleep in the car on the way home, about an hours drive, and then I couldn't even get him to open an eye for about 3 hours after they got home. And then Big J and him took another nap! He was soooo tired. But even he said that he had fun and he made sure to tell me, " Danny something something bite!" I knew that he was telling me about the lizard bite. I said I know, its Okay. So it was a good trip.

Meanwhile I was up at 5 am looking for the missing bolt to my new bike. I had lost it the day before after putting the child carrier on the back and then deciding that it was not going to work. when I got done taking it back off the bolt to tighten my seat was gone. So all morning I searched for a suitable replacement. Finally finding one on Little D's old bike. The reason that I needed one so badly is that its Iron Week again! Yep I'm doing it again! We were set to go on a big bike ride that morning to kick it off and get a chunk of our biking done early. So I had to have a seat! Before I could go on the ride thought I had to go sit in the cold on a side walk at 7 am and wait for tickets to go on sale for Little A's dance recital next month. I would never think that you would have to wait in line 3 hrs just for tickets to a little girls recital. But the seats are assigned and so if you want a good close seat then you have to get in early. We ended up in the center of row 9. not too bad. Needless to say we only got a 20mile bike ride in between the chaos of finding something to tow a child in. But it was a fun ride and I will probably go again. We saw tons of butterfly's, squirrels, rabbits, lizards, ducks, and even a snake.

next post will be of little A and I's Girls night!

Catch Up

Well its almost been one month since my last post, and a lot has happened since. The next couple of blogs will be catch up posts. We will start with Camping!

We went camping for the first time in 3 years! Our ward had a ward activity up at the Stake Camp site Big Meadow. (It really is BIG) Big J was able to Take that Friday off. It was a lot of fun there were only 2 other families there but it was still fun! I was like, now this is camping!
Last time we went camping it was bad there wasn't any grass or anything in the campsites it was all just 3 inches of dust. But this was nice it was a lot like Montana. We realized on this trip that we needed to be more prepared and should beef up our camping supplies. And perhaps more fully think out our meals.


It was a little chilly but not too bad. We mostly hung out at the campfire Friday night and then during the day on Saturday the men chopped all the trees that were down and stacked it at the campsite so the girls would have fire wood for girls camp. The men (and all the kids) worked really hard while the women mostly talked around the fire! The kids were all a great help.

For breakfast Big J made chocolate chip pancakes and another family had made scrambled eggs. So we all had pancakes and eggs. It was yummy.

Little C's favorite part was sitting by the fire, drinking Hot Chocolate, and throwing things into the fire.

The kids' favorite part was probably riding on the trailer! Here they all are getting on to have a ride.


Here is where they were cutting the trees into big stumps and then splitting it into smaller logs and then they would load them onto the trailer behind the jeep. The yellow thing is the splitter. It was pretty cool. I had never seen one before and thought that it would be nice to have if you lived somewhere that you had to cut firewood. Like Montana.



Here is Big J and all the kids riding in the Jeep to take a load to a campsite. It was good to see all the kids helping unload at just about every campsite! In all it was a good trip. I'm glad we went and look forward to next year.