**Camping over the 24th of July weekend**

We had such a wonderful time camping on the 24th of July weekend. We went with some of our awesome friends, Jeff and Kris Haley and their 3 kids. For those of you that don't know Jeff and Kris well, they do everything big and awesome. They found the best spot above strawberry reservoir. It was almost to the top of the mountain. On the way up we were thinking Jeff was crazy because it was so far up. The road was pretty crazy and our trailer dragged a little but once we got there we realized why he picked it. There was no one else around and it had a breath taking view. He had the camp so set up. He dug a hole and bought sand to make a sand pit for the kids. He had a outdoors kitchen with all the works. They had bikes, a canope, horse shoes, and a fire pit about 5 times the sizes of a normal one. Anything you can think of they had. It was such an awesome trip. I wish we could have stayed longer.

This is our family over looking the awesome view

The Haley family (Jeff, Kris, Jordan, Bracken, and Cienna)

Sorry Kris, I know I spelled some of the names wrong

This is us eating the Cajun boil. Jeff is the master cook. He cooks shrimp, crab legs, corn, potatoes, chicken, sausage, hot dogs and who knows what else all together with Cajun sauce. Then they cover a table with paper and they dump it out. That is our Q to pig out. It is the best food ever. Traci Taylor, Barry & Angi Johnson and there 3 boys came up for dinner. We had so much fun and ate way to much.
Cienna is awesome riding a 4 wheeler so she gave all of my kids a ride. They love her so much!

Jordan is Bowdy's favorite. She is the best! She took care of Bowdy the hole time (including diaper changes) I don't know what we would do with out her.

Cienna and Aspen

Ben had a ball on Jeff's 4- wheeler

Jeff and Kris snuggling up. This was hard to get a picture of because Jeff was very very dirty from riding the 4-wheelers so Kris didn't want to get close, HA HA. It is hard to tell but he is covered in dust.

Ben and the kids

The kids got so dirty,but they had so much fun.
Mandi with a dirt makeover

Kiersten and Tucker built a hut in the tall weeds. This is them coming back with there walking sticks. They said they heard an animal growl by their hut, so I sent Ben to investigate. He found nothing, but who knows what it could have been. There are a lot of bears and mountain lions in the area. OOOOOH

This is the kids playing in the sand pit.


We had such an awesome weekend. Thank you Jeff and Kris for all of your hospitality. We love you guys.