Camping with the Taylors

First I'd like to let every one know that my dad is home and doing fine. Just going to be sore. Thank you for your concern. Now on to camping. :)

( Before)

We have wanted to do a lot of camping this summer because Nate's work schedule works really well for that. This is the first time we've been able to make it out. We went up Spanish Fork Canyon to Diamond Fork with the Taylors. Jered works with Nate and him and his family are wonderful! I've really enjoyed getting to know Stephanie and their kids, Maddie and Eli.

The first thing that Maddie showed us was a lizard her dad had caught. I was so surprised that Tucker would even hold it, I had to take a picture. I think he was more surprised that it climbed up his sleeve and sat on his shoulder! They had a lot of fun with that poor lizard.

(Eli and Tuck)

(The lizard just chillin")

Jered has this 4-wheeler that is just for the kids. Has a hand held kill switch and doesn't go very fast. The kids loved it! The hardest part was just waiting for your turn!

We had a wonderful night sleeping the first night. It started raining around one in the morning so we sleep with tarps over our sleeping bags. Not to bad. I forgot to mention that sleeping in the tipi is fun as long as it doesn't rain. It only rained for 45 min so we stayed pretty dry.

The next day was full of baseball, frisbee, hiking and bug catching. We had a blast camping with the Taylors! It was just a nice day being overcast and no breeze. It wasn't to hot or cold and we just really enjoyed our day. But..... we shouldn't have pushed our luck with staying two nights. Right after we got dinner going, around 4:30, it started raining again. Lucky for us, the Taylors have a camper, so in went the kids. By 7 o'clock it still hadn't stopped so we ate dinner and put the kids to bed. We owe the Taylors so much for putting us up in their trailer with them for the night. It didn't stop raining all night long and we would have been Very Wet in the tipi! We will defenitly be going camping with these wonderful people again but next time we will be paying more attention to the weather forecast.

(The camp from our hike)

(Thad, Tucker, Norma, Maddie)

(Maddie and Norma butterfly catching)

(Thad caught a grasshopper)

(Tucker is a good baseball player. He hit 80% of the balls that Jered pitched to him.)

(Nate playing fribee)

(Wall-E had a good time too!)


(Tucker, Norma, Eli and Maddie)