The Camping Woman

This was our home for a few days this week. We decided to go camping up Diamond Fork for the weekend.We had so much fun with the Bills even if our trailer batteries were low so we had no heat at night.

Dakota is in seventh heaven when we take her camping with us. Even when she is being mauled by Linx.

Dakota even let the boys get in her kennel.

Lincoln chasing Dakota around camp.

 Finally Dakota had enough of being mauled and chased and took to the bushes to hide from Lincoln. But Lincoln was not going to let her off that easy. He was going in after her. Poor Dakota, good thing she is such a loving dog.

Bad Boys, Bad Boys. (Joe the gangster and Jason the Wild West Shooter.

Is that Billy the Kid? Wait it's just Jason with his revolver. One morning I told Jason I was going to get up early and go running. He told me I could take his gun with me. I told him that I didn't want to hold  it while I ran. He said I didn't have to because he had a holster, that is when he pulled out this revolver and holster I was laughing so hard when he showed me.Can you image me running in the canyon with this wild west gun and holster on.

Target shooting while the kids went on a atv ride with Joe's parents.

We had a great time target shooting. 

I had a great time target shooting. I have not fired a gun in over15 years and I had forgotten how fun they are to shoot. I was not accurate at all, but that will come with practice.

One of Charlie's angels in training.

When the kids got back from their atv ride and saw us shooting the guns they wanted to have a turn. I was really surprised that Talan wanted to try. He really liked it and wanted to keep shooting it. I thought he would hate it because it was so loud and had quite a kick.

 Little Crew probably liked it the most. Every time the gun fired he would smile and laugh. It was so cute to watch.

The afternoons got hot so the kids spent the afternoons cooling off in the river.

Talan and Dakota waded over to the little island in the river.

Crew had fun filling up his buckets with water and dumping them over his head.

Water Time!!!

 I think that Talan had roasted marshmallows for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Oh wait Talan doesn't like marshmallows he just likes to roast them over the camp fire.

 If you ever need a marshmallow roasted then Talan is your man.

 The little boys had a great time playing with all the camp toys. We keep some toys in the trailer so when we go camping it is like a whole bucket of new toys.

 

The popular place to play was the trailer stairs so we did have a few bonked heads.

 

Talan loves to play baseball. 

 Every day we would fill up a bowl with rocks and it would keep Linx entertained by throwing them in the river.

Surprisingly no one fell into the river. It was a camping miracle.

Our favorite thing to do while camping is to ride our atvs. Anytime someone would start one up Talan was right there wanting to go for a ride.

The Bills gang ready to head out on a ride. The kids had been begging to go for a ride to the tub so we loaded everyone up and started off.

Unfortunately about 5 miles into the ride our atv decided to die. Of course we were at the end of the line so no one knew we had broken down.We had tried everything but it just would not run.

We decided to take off the the seat and sit in the shade and wait for someone to rescue us. After waiting for awhile I decided to walk around the corner to see if I could see camp. On my way back some people in a Razor stopped and offered me a ride back to camp. Lets just say it was one wild ride back to camp. Joe and Jess finally realized that we were missing and came back down and towed us back to camp.

 This is were our atv spent the rest of the camping trip. You can see how happy Jason is about his atv not working. Boo!!! Camping is so much more fun when you have an atv to ride.

Since we were not able to go riding Jason spent the evening playing horse shoes.

 He also spent some time just hanging out with Linx in the shade.

 Talan wanted to take some photos.This is one of his favorites he said. I am so glad that he likes me so much.

 Me and my first fish!! It definitely was no trophy fish but lets just say "I am Hooked". I also landed me a new fishing partner. Addy loves to fish and I promised her I would take her on a fishing trip.

After 3 days of camping we were headed home. We were Dirty,

 

Sunburned,

 Smelled of smoke,

 

but I wouldn't give up this time with my family. My kids love to camp and if they are happy so am I!!

We have so much fun when we go up to Diamond Fork, it is our go to camping spot. We like going there because it is close to home and we can ride our 4 wheelers from camp. It is a lot of work to get ready to go camping but the memories that are made while playing in the dirt with my family are priceless.