Our Camping Adventures

Our camping adventure began Friday night at 6:00 when we finally managed to get everything packed in the cars and we drove away from our house. Natalie and Dallas rode with Karli and Jared, while Jared and I followed behind in our little car. All was going well until 20 minutes out of Payson traffic came to a complete stop! There was a bad accident and they shut down the road. We were completely stuck! We all got out of our cars and sat around talking.

Finally 2 1/2 hours later (about 9:30) we were on our way again. Of course we hadn't eaten dinner yet so we had to stop in Payson somewhere along with the other thousands of people who were stuck in the traffic jam! We finally got our dinner around 10:30. Let's just say it wasn't very appetizing so late at night.

We FINALLY arrived at our campsite around 12:30 and we set up camp. Once we finally got to bed I was so tired I couldn't go to sleep. Of course as soon as it was light outside (5:00 AM) the babies were wide awake and there was no more sleeping. The boys left to go fishing while the girls stayed at camp to watch the babies. A couple of hours later the boys returned with very little luck fishing.

Sometime around noon everyone decided it was time for a nap! Just as we were all laying down we heard the first signs of the storm. We got back out of tents and put everything away. It rained for about two hours but it was quite nice because Caleb enjoyed the sound of the rain and slept the whole storm!


Once it was over we were able to enjoy some nice weather for a few hours. Jared and Dallas decided it was time for a campfire to cook dinner on. Jared found a dead tree for Dallas to break up with his big rock. Lets just say these boy scouts used all of their resources to get this fire going. (and then we went and bought firewood for $5 from the ranger:)


We cooked dinner, (foil dinners, one of my favorite camping foods!) and sat around the fire talking. I really was looking forward to cooking marshmellows and making smores on that fire but then around 6:00 the rain began again and we were in the tents for the night!

We packed and cleaned up Sunday morning to go home. Caleb enjoyed playing around in his playpen while we were packing up.


Once we finally made it home we enjoyed our wonderful showers and went to sacrament meeting together. Our last event of our journey was eating a spagetti dinner at Natalie's house together.

Looking back I think we all had a good time. It never fails that we have some kind of adventure when we go camping.