More Camping

Who would have guessed that I would be up for camping every other week? We have had a lot of fun getting away to spend time together. This week we went up to the Uintahs. We found this great spot off the side of the road near China Meadows. We could walk this path down into a meadow with the Smithsfork running through it. It was perfect! We didn't see another person the whole time. There were pools for Logan to fish in and Chad and Connor could fish the rest of the river. Ashlyn fished a little but she eventually found her way into the water. She is a fish, she doesn't need to catch them. Connor caught his first fish unaided on the fly rod. It was a very proud moment for Chad. Connor is officially back into fishing now that he gets to wade with his dad. Logan didn't have much luck but he had a blast because he learned how to cast by himself. On the last night he had a melt down because he didn't feel he had got enough fishing in. We had fished all day and the night before but it wasn't enough for him. Chad took him out until it was dark so he could get his fill. Of course we forgot the camera again so we can't show you the beautiful site. We'll have to go back. We came home with dirty kids and a million bug bites including some weird bites that left Logan with dots of blood all over his neck and scalp, but, we had a lot of fun. Even I am glad that we bought a trailer.

July 4th Weekend

Our July 4th weekend was busy but, fun. We ended up at the South Fork again. We stayed Wednesday night through Saturday afternoon. Originally we were going to go to the Uintahs or to the Blacksmith Fork but we decided to stay close instead. Our good friends the Sargent's joined us for one of the nights. Even though we stayed in the same campground, we did completely different things. The first time we spent a lot of time fishing. This time we spent most of our time floating or playing in the river. We had a lot of fun although our behinds are bruised from hitting the rocks along to way. It was great weather most of the trip. The one rainy night we had fun playing games in the trailer. We can never go back to tenting it. The last day was a little colder so we kept the fire going most of the day which meant SMORES all day long. Yum! After we got home Saturday night we had a yummy dinner at the Sargent's and then we went to the Morgan fireworks with my Mom and Dad and Melissa, Matt and Mya. Ashlyn was really cute for the fireworks this year. She danced and cheered. I had more fun watching her than the fireworks. It is a big change from a couple of years ago when I had to walk her to the car before the fireworks started to prevent a melt down. Sunday night after church we had dinner at Amy and Dave's. The kids mauled their kittens and begged to bring one home. (Apparently they haven't figured out that I am barely willing to keep the one pet we have. They are lucky to still have Foster after the nightmare of taking him camping. We quickly fixed that mistake and took him home after the first night.) Amy and Dave had saved some of their fireworks for the kids to watch. The girls danced and the boys enjoyed lighting them.
Last night we had to go fishing to make up for the lack of fishing on our camping trip. Mellow Logan had an out of body when he realized we were going home from camping without meeting his fishing quota. I promised him we would go for Family Night. I had heard about a pond in East Layton so we decided to try it. The pond was full of blue gill. Although they were tiny each of the kids caught a couple. Connor's friend Sam caught his first fish. It was cute how excited he got. The water was clear enough that you could see the fish chase the worm. The kids had fun but Logan won't be satisfied until he catches a fish that he can eat. He caught a big fish at East Canyon a couple of months ago but we never got around to cooking it. He still hasn't got over it. If we don't make it up to the Uintahs soon we might have go the fish farm.