Every year, for the past several, we have made it a family tradition to go camping. We have chose Tanner's Flat, which Brett had dubbed "city camping". It is great because it is just far enough outside of the city up in the canyon, but still has a few comforts (which is great with kids that are still little). Let me say though, we still have to set up tents, we still get really dirty and eat "camp" food (it's real camping to me!). We always have a great time when we go (2 nights and 3 days is just right). Once we got up there and got camp all set up the kiddos realized that there were a lot of "potguts" hanging around looking for handouts. They spent the better part of the afternoon constructing and trying to trap one of them. They were not successful, but had so much fun in trying to.
A rare shot of the whole camping family. I want to add that this is early on in the trip, we did not look like this towards the end!
Alex and mom
Colton was able to amuse himself for most of the trip with his magnifying glass. He burned the table, leaves, pine cones, more leaves...and whatever else he could.
During the camp trip, we take a day and go up to Snowbird. We usually have a good lunch (city camping) and let the kids pick a few of the activities, but this year we (Brett and I) decided that we would ride the tram to the top of Snowbird (which is the top of the mountain) and hike down instead of riding the chairlift down (which is what we usually do). Let me just say, that we bit off WAY more than we could chew. The trail was much steeper than it looked, much much (like many hours) longer than we anticipated, and just all around difficult. However, we did finish...tired, thirsty, hungry and SORE!
There were some really pretty patches of flowers, waterfalls, and rock formations along the way though.
That night we were really glad to be back at camp to spend some more time together. McKaleigh read the entire book "The Host" (again) during our time up there. Alex and dad created all kinds of mischief, and we just generally had a great time!
2 comments:
We haven't been "real" camping in forever. Our version of camping is staying in a hotel nearby! Looks like a lot of fun, though! I can't wait for my kids to get a little bit bigger so we can try it out! Your kids are adorable. We should get McKaleigh and August together. I think they'd get a long really well!
LOVE IT! We've got a family goal to go camping this year still, but it'll probably just be an overnighter and not 3 glorious days! :)
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