Camping, camping, and more camping!

Part 1:
I guess I didn't get my fill of camping after girl's camp, because only two weeks later it was off to Steamboat Lake to camp with my brother and his cute family. We camped for three nights!!! That is quite an achievement for me. We enjoyed our beautiful camping area. Unfortunately, the pine beetle had made it to our camping site before us and killed many of the trees. Subsequently, they had to be chopped down and so it felt more like we were camping in a meadow. Still, looking on the lake was nice - it just made for some hot days. To relieve ourselves from the heat we headed into Steamboat Springs during the days. It was a fun little ski town and we did some shopping and had some good BBQ. We also enjoyed viewing the Yampa River Botanical Gardens





Tanner had a lot of fun with his little cousin Cameron. They both liked to find rocks and play in the dirt. McKay also really enjoyed playing with Cameron and showing him his stories. One morning we decided to take a boat out on the lake. The boys did a little fishing and we were able to enjoy being out on the water. It was an early morning though, so Tanner and Cameron fell asleep during the boat ride.



After boating in the lake we decided to take a little swim in the lake, which was nice and refreshing on such a hot day. It was then up to Fish Creek Falls for some hiking. We did a short hike to the uppper falls and a short hike to the base of the falls. Both were very beautiful. One of my favorite parts about the camp was the food. There is nothing like Dutch Oven cooking. We dined on stew and biscuits, peach cobbler, mountain man breakfast, chicken and stuffing, and apple cobbler. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.




We had so much fun on this trip and it was great to meet Josh and Kyle somewhere in the middle. We have decided to make camping with them an annual trip. Next year we'll see them in Moab!

Part 2:
Our ward campout was the very next week. This was an easy camp. We ate dinner before we came up and the bishopric made breakfast the next morning. Carter and McKay look forward to this camp each year. In fact, we hardly saw them except for sleeping because they were having so much fun with their friends. There was a good turnout and we enjoyed chatting and playing games with friends as well. The YW were in charge of some water balloon volleyball Saturday morning, which was also a lot of fun.



Does that look like a tired dirty face or what? I think that is how we all felt after all this camping. I think it may be safe to say that the camping was great, but I'm pretty camped out right now.