Camping!

Oh how I love camping! I was so glad that we got to get in another camping trip and spend some time in the great outdoors. But maybe what I was most excited about was that Tyce slept 7 hours Thursday night! Wahooey!!
We went up AF canyon on Friday afternoon and shortly after Tami and fam arrived, my mom came up, and Charlie with his kids. We had a great time, got dirty, talked a lot, and enjoyed every minute!

These are the cool balls that Ry and Asher got from Xango's "Bring your kid to work" day. They were played with all weekend!

I always have to throw in pictures of the kids playing on the iphones. I don't know why it makes me laugh!

We had planned on hiking to Stuart Falls on Saturday. Somehow we ended up starting our hike right at lunch time when it was super hot outside. The hike was way longer than we had anticipated but we all made it! I was unprepared and forgot to bring my wrap or backpack for Tyce so Kevin and I took turns carrying him. Rylan's not a big hiker so he had several moments of whining and complaining and then he'd suddenly just break into a run and sprint up the trail! Asher was a trooper and did what he could. He got a shoulder ride from Kev for the last little bit, but really he did pretty good. I admit it was a long, sweaty hike, but the exercise was good and the waterfall was pretty!

I had some fruit gushers I was bribing the kids with. Asher's teeth were so colorful I wanted a picture--For some reason this picture of him just makes me laugh!

At the top:

(Not great pictures of the waterfall but the people in the pictures are pretty cute!)

On the way back down we were told of a short cut that's good with kids. We gladly took that route! It took us through a private street of a gated living area but nobody yelled at us :)
Asher fell and was so sad. He makes such a cute sad face...

But he looked so stinkin cute walking down, holding hands with his daddy, hat sideways...
After our hike we were all starving so we decided against the planned foil dinners and went with the quick (and mighty delicious) frito pies for an early dinner. Oh, it tasted so good! The adults rested and sat around while the kids somehow had loads more energy and continued running around, exploring and playing.

I saw Asher playing with Tami's dust pan in the river. I took it away (after taking a picture!) and looked around for the little broom, but didn't see it. Later on when Tami was looking for her broom we asked Asher where it was. "In the river". Oops! I really did look in the river but if he did have it down there it must have floated away. Sorry about the litter, and sorry about your broom Tami!

Sunday morning Kevin got busy right away taking down the tent and packing things away. I took my time, not wanting to leave the mountains. But we had to be home in time to make it back for him to teach his Elder's Quorum lesson. The boys and I skipped out on our meetings--shhhh, don't tell :)
I truly am so grateful to have the mountains so close. This world is an amazingly beautiful place and I hope I am always near my family and a wooded campsite!