Get-away weekend

What is it about camping that is so enticing? Is it the three days of planning and gathering? Is it sleeping in the freezing mountain air, praying all night long that your children will not need your help so you won't have to lose all of your heat getting up to help them? And that they won't play tag team all night so that you get a combined 3 hours night sleep the first night? Well, if this is why you go, more power to you! This is why I go camping.





My kids love it! Emily was thrilled to find out the she got to sleep
another night, even though she hardly slept the night before and was such a chilly little Popsicle that she climbed into bed with us in the middle of the night. The following day when we were packing up she started to beg and said, "Please mommy, just three more sleeps?"



The fun thing was there was no running water or trash service!
Aaron couldn't wait to find a port-a-potty. I wasn't even sure that there were any up there! In fact Emily had her first taste of peeing in the forest. She did a good job! Of course this was before I knew that there was in fact a nice smelly fly infested toilet just down the way. Oh the joys of camping!

Since last year my kids have been BEGGING to go camping since
last year! I don't know why we don't explore Colorado more! It is a gorgeous state where people from out of state travel to explore it!

Tyler was very excited to show me "Tyler's Mountain". So we hiked off to see it. All of the kids found some walking sticks and we trooped off singing "Following the Leader". (click on the picture for better detail!) Hyrum would hum along and he even had a little bounce in his step.


Hyrum is a NATURAL camper! The dirt, bugs, weeds, cold, EVERYTHING he had no problem with. When we trooped off, he kept right up and had a grin the whole time. When he woke up after the first night he must have been a little stiff. He started walking like he was a popper on "So You Think You Can Dance". It was pretty cute!



The sad thing was, he kept biffing it! He is so tough though because he
would usually pull himself back up, brush himself off and keep walking. He showed off his biffing technique for most of the ward. You can tell that he
is the youngest of five.


We showed up Thursday Evening, set up camp, roasted marshmallows, had smores with Nutella, had hot chocolate and went to bed. Can you guess why our kids had a hard time falling asleep? Could it have been all that sugar? Nah. It actually wasn't too fun of a night. Suffice it to say, it was freezing and there wasn't a whole lot of sleeping going on!

In order to make it so this post isn't so long, I decided to break up the trip into different sections.