We finally went camping as a family this year!!!

Thursday afternoon we went up to Big Cottonwood and went camping in the Spruces, our most favorite place to go! This was our third attempt to go and finally was able to get a spot.

I woke up early to buy my sight Thursday morning so that when we drove up there at night they would not be all taken.

When we got up there it had just started trickling rain and by the time Matt got out to set up the tent it was POURING!! So the kids and I ate crackers in the van while watching him set it up:)

Well by the time it was up it was flooded with water, so luckily I had brought a few towels and we proceeded to mop the floor and ring out the gallons of water that were in there! By now it was thundering like crazy and the kids were DYING in the van because of the noise I had to whip out some licorice to calm them down.

Matt then got a great idea, instead of waiting for the dumb tent to dry we would just set up our other much smaller tent inside our big wet tent HAHA! It worked out great and we stayed dry and warm all night long! we might have to do that every time!

Needless to say we were able to roast our hotdogs and smores and had a wonderful fire that night.

We woke up to perfect mountain weather and the smell of wet pine. The kids were soooo excited to go and explore we barely saw them all day:) It was definitely different than what we are used to since we did not have a baby to take care of!!

Friday night it started raining about 6pm so we ate our tinfoil dinners in our tent inside a tent") it rained for about an hour and then we were out making smores and sitting by the fire again!

Saturday we took a walk to go find Annies campsite that she got with her extended family. They were infested with a family of moose! the kids thought that was pretty cool!

Saturday night we got in our tent about 10:30 to hit the hay when it started raining just as we hit our heads on our pillows!! I could not believe it was raining again!! especially when it was not suppose to rain at all this weekend!!

we were just laughing and were thankful that we were at least in our tent this time before it started raining! Anyway it rained ALL night long on and off again! We finally got out of our tent at about 7am to start a fire and it had just stopped!! We were able to have another fabulous breakfast and hung out until 1pm when we headed home! it was so much fun and the kids are so excited for next year to come so we can do it again!!