Excellent Weekend

 Totally don't know how this picture turned out so good because the sun was in my eyes and I did not have my glasses on so I just aimed and shot the picture and here it is!

                               Amy, Liam and Josie and the top of our "short" hike

 

                             Everyone making our way down from the "short" hike

                                                  Hiking and happy that it is down hill!

                                       Enjoying some sweet corn for supper

                                    Jese and Oliver hiking up the steps

                                                   Josie

 Not really a good hiking trail for a 6 year old, 4 year old and two 2 year old's but we made it. Notice the cute panda bear back pack I have on. Josie was wearing it but after a hour of hiking up it got to heavy for her.

 Josie hitching a ride from Grandpa Rick

                               Eli was not to ready to smile after hiking forever......

                                                  Eli and Oliver loved to run

                                         Eli liked swimming much better the hiking

                                    Eli and Oliver playing on the beach

                                                         Another shot of us hiking

                                                Rick and I on a morning hike

 Rick, Cassie, Amy, Christa and I went for a hike. This is us trying to figure out just where the hell we are....

                                   Rick and I checking out the prairie

                                   Liam checking out the little waterfall we found

                                                               Josie the fashion star!

                                            Josie leading the way on the hiking trail

           Eli was in love with this little girl....I foresee lots of broken hearts in his future :)

                                                Josie and I at the top of our hike

                            Some of the steps we got to go up on our hike

                                                                    The White Water Creek

                Amy, Christa and Cassie after they "rock climbed" up to the cave

                                         Cassie and I on one of our hikes

                                           Oliver and I checking out the beach

                                                     Adam with the only trout that was caught 

                       Rick, Christa, Cassie, Amy and me on our morning walk

                                                  Rick on the hiking trail

Morgan thought since we were camping it was just fine to jump up on the table when ever no one was looking and clean it up...naughty dog!


What an excellent weekend! Everyone was able to make it for at least part of the weekend but Nick. Poor Nick got a new job and they scheduled him to work the weekend and he could not get anyone to switch with him. So he missed out on all the fun.

Rick did not have to work on Wednesday so we took off a day early and headed down to White Water State Park. After getting set up and checking out the park a little bit it started to rain so we held up in the camper and watched Downton  Abbey. I had it downloaded on my Kindle so we finally got to finish watching it.
Thursday the kids all started to come in, First it was Christa and Oliver, then Amy, Adam, Liam, Josie and Eli and lastly Cassie. Jese came in on Friday.

We had pretty nice weather all weekend. It was  hot during the day but cooled off at night enough so it was not to bad for sleeping for the kid who were all in tents. 

We did a ton of hiking. Liam and Josie wanted to go on a hike too so we all headed out for what was suppose to be a somewhat easy one mile hike. Well we may have taken a wrong turn and the hike may have ended up being 3 miles long. The kids did pretty good since it was not a kid friendly trail. Poor Adam and Jese had to carry Eli and Oliver most of the way.

Cassie, Amy, Christa, Rick and I also went on a long morning hike and again we may have gotten a little lost! The map they hand out is so bad and none of the trail are really marked. You get the a intersection in the trail and there is no signs telling which trail is which. So like all good hikers we just pick which way we think is right and keep on hiking. Most of the time we were wrong :)

On top of hiking we got to do some swimming. We even took the dogs swimming. Dexter has always loved the water. Morgan was not so sure of it but we did get her out swimming. Oliver was more interested in the sand then the water. He thought it was go be a good idea to put a big handful in his mouth and try and eat it. He discovered he did not like it and lots of crying ensued :)

On Saturday Adam and Jese took the kids on a tour of the fish hatchery while we went on a hike so in the afternoon we left all the kids but Liam with Amy and Christa so we could do a little trout fishing. Adam was the only one to get a fish. Those trout are hard to catch!

All and all it was a great weekend. It is the first time we have all been able to go camping together as a family and everyone agrees that we will be doing it again.

Later Sharon