A-Camping We Will Go

Our ward camp out was supposed to be this past weekend, but it got "postponed." [imagine me doing the quotes in the air with my fingers here]

Since Matt already had taken Friday off of work, we decided to keep with the plan to go camping and invited Matt's bro and his family to go with us. They led us to a campground up past Globe. The original campsite that we planned to go to was already inhabited (apparently it was a popular weekend for camping!!!) and thankfully, we scored the last camp spots in the next campground up the way.

~Highlights of the trip~

• Setting up tents in the dark
• Green trees, green bushes and more green!
• Visiting the top of the ranger station manned by a dirty [context taken either way] mountain man
• Pretty views & primitive furniture
• Outhouses - no need for elaboration on that one!! Blech!
  
• Being woken several times during the night by a baby that wouldn't settle down unless he was attached to the boob, or by a child that was cold, or by a child that had to pee, or by a child that was having his "personal space" invaded.
• Playing games
• Being dumped on by rain for a good 3-4 hours on Saturday
• Thunder and lighting in the mountains... ahhhhhh
• Two strong hubbies that chopped wood and got a fire going, even after the rain
• Worm hunting after the rain
• Foil dinners
• Dutch oven cobbler
• S'mores
• "A-Tooty-Tah" and "Going on a Lion Hunt" around the campfire
• Playing in the creek
• Going au naturale
• Exploring the woods
• Dirty hands, dirty faces, dirty bums

Our trip was so much fun!!!! I'm glad that my kids have cousins that live close by so we can go on adventures together. We had a great time enjoying the great outdoors, but once again, this reaffirms the fact that I NEVER would have made a good pioneer woman!!

Postscript: Matt dropped the entire car top carrier in the front room and now it smells like a stinkin' (literally) campfire!!! Back to the grindstone of washing everything and getting it put away..... Why is the woman's job SO much harder -- organizing and packing everything beforehand, then unpacking and cleaning/washing everything afterward??!