putting up the tipi

It is quite the ordeal to put the tipi up every year,

here we are all helping get the main pole up and going,

yahoo we did it....Grandpa is happy!

 

catching some Z's!

Camping in Lava over the holiday weekend, these two were tired after

eating, they found a bench and took a nap!!!

 

 

ziplining

While we were camping in Lava over Memorial Day,

some friends of our, has a small zipline on their property, they

let us play!!!  fun times!!!

Payton-Rise Up Campout

Payton had the opportunity to attend the Rise Up campout.  This is a once and a life time event.  It was to honor 100 years that Boys Scouts have been in the LDS church.  There were over 10,5000
scouts that attended this event.  It was for 3 days.  Payton had a great time, and learned a lot of things.  They had many activities for the boys to do.  He earned the Thomas S. Monson award, that he was thrilled about.  He especially liked the coin that he received.  Great job Payton!!!!

Brothers!!!

We found a man made Lean to down the creek.  The kids had a blast climbing all over the rocks, fallen trees and crossing the creek.  Being outdoors is awesome!!!

Crazy kids!!!

It was so pretty near our camp area, it is fun to see the leaves start to change colors.  I had the boys go up near some quakies, you can tell that they are not very serious...but it is a fun pictures.  They had a great time camping!  We have the best kids!!!

Dairy Lake

We took a ride to Dairy Lake.  It was a fun trail, we saw about 5 head of deer, it was really pretty there.  Rhubin and Payton took Rhubins 4 wheeler through the water to a island, then we had fun skipping rocks.  Rhubin won, he got 7!!!  It was fun.  

Our 4 wheeling crew!

Here was our trail of 4 wheelers and the crew we went with.  It was alot of fun.  Lots of memories made!

Old cabins!

Where we were camping in Leadore, there was lots of run down cabins, sheds, mining spots.  This old rail track for carts was neat.  There was lots of fun stuff to check out.  We like the old stuff to go through.  The kids found some old oil cans and horse shoes. 

Cute Couple!!!

What a precious couple!!!!  We had a great weekend.  Love the outdoors! Being with family camping and 4 wheeling is the best time!!!!

Camping Weekend

We went camping with some friends over the weekend, we had a great time. There were 10 4 wheelers, and we went on some fun trails.  We had a great time as a family. Got to laugh alot and enjoy hanging out.  We did talk about Willy lots, as this is our families favorite thing to do.  We missed not having him there with us, but know that he is where he is suppose to be right now.  We will make up camping time when he gets back!!!  Good times camping, boy was it dusty!!!!











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Rock climbing

There was this huge rock in the camp site area, Rhubin and Noah were the only ones to climb it.  They are the bravest!!!  Great bonding time for the two of them!!!

Chubbuck 3rd ward Girls Camp

Girls Camp was July 31 - August 3rd!!!  It was a huge success.  Rhubin was able to go with me for the week.  It was fun to have him there.  This was a bed swing that was the hot spot at camp.  The last day we decided to try it out.  This is us relaxing before it was time to leave.  Rhubin survived 23 girls and 5 leaders for the week.  It was alittle awkward for him in the beginning, but then the girls got to know him and they had alot of fun teasing him.  He said he would do it again!!!

Let's go riding!!!

We were able to go riding in between rain storms, and snow storms.  There were 9 of us that went on a fun ride, however, me and Diane turned around and the men went on for a further ride.  It was really fun and we all had a great time.  Beautiful country, and so green!!  But it was COLD!

Umbrella shelter

One of the best things about camping is the campfire.  The weather did not allow us to enjoy the fire like we like, so Rhubin found a umbrella that we could stand under and enjoy the fire without getting wet.  It worked great, we just had to keep moving, because the smoke was awful!!! 

Memorial Day Fun

This year we went to Lava Hot Springs for the Memorial day weekend.  We had lots of friends and family show up to camp and enjoy the fun!!!  We had about 30 people at the camp.  We had good times.  However, the weather did not cooperate as well as it should have.  We had lots of rain, hail, rain, sleet, rain and lots of snow.  We got wet, and cold and muddy!  My sister in law finally said lets put zip loc bags on the kids feet and then they could still wear their shoes but then their feet would not get wet.  It worked great!!! We had a good time, but we did leave earlier than expected, we had all had it with the weather!

Redneck Stairs

We got our camper set up and the stairs were not working so well, even with a milk crate to help get us in the camper, so Rhubin came up with our new stairs!!!! It worked great, however we ended up moving the camper so that we did not have to use the ladder. 

4th of July

We went and stayed at McTucker ponds for the 4th of July. We had a great time camping and fishing. The boys loved the boat. The dogs liked to ride in the boat. It was nice to have our own little camp spot. Lots of memories!!!