Labor Day Camping

This weekend we went camping at Kolob Reservoir with Tyson and Rachael and their son Grady, and Jeremy and Molly and their kids Paisley and Dylan. We borrowed our friend's four wheeler and Tyson took two of his and we had our pit bike. It was a lot of fun. The kids did a little fishing. We did some riding. Some highlights of the weekend:
*Paisley sitting on Tyson's lap, putting his hand on her knee, and then pushing his fingers down so they went around her knee. He was hers the rest of the trip (except when Loni was there). Luckily Rachael was good to share. :) It was pretty funny.
*Watching the helicopters getting water for a nearby fire.
*The kids having fun together in the dirt and on the four wheelers.
*Awesome food.
*Watching people from our camp across the water at the bathroom (the bathroom close to us had partiers using it so it had a couple cigarette butts in it, puke in it at one point and poop on the floor at another point so most of us chose to go to the one farther away - luckily we had four wheelers to ride over there). There were some good dismounts for those that were in a hurry and one (I won't mention my name) that was in a hurry because dinner was ready and went past the bathroom.
*Feeding the ducks - they came quite close to us (unless the big kids were there - they chased them). We found out they'll eat chili but not peaches.
*Watching Cooper and Jared get surrounded by cows on the way back from watching the helicopters. They were in front and we came upon some cows. He slowed down to go past them (some on either side of the road) when all of a sudden all of them - including the ones across the road - started slowly running past Jared, some in front of him and some in back. I wasn't able to pull my camera out in time to take a picture. It was hilarious.
*Finding out what happens when two boxes of shotgun shells and one 500 round box of 22 bullets accidentally gets thrown in the fire (he thought it was garbage and didn't check to see that Jared's live rounds were in there). It was quite a show. Luckily no one got hurt.
*Jared racing a little kid with another pit bike and winning, but breaking his chain on the really bad road. Tyson raced him later on a four-wheeler. Later, the kid would look at our camp every time he rode by. He was pretty cool. When Jared broke his chain the kid rode with him while Jared pushed his bike back to camp. According to Jared it was awesome and so worth it (luckily it was just the master link so hopefully it'll be a cheap easy fix). When Jared talked to him, he said he had been out riding since 9 that morning. He just kept going around the lake and then back (the road doesn't go all the way around).
Here's a few pictures from the weekend.

Jared and Jeremy took Crue and Dylan on the raft to the island. I love this picture of both boys and their backsides.

Now they're looking.

Someone had a sailboat on the reservoir.

Father and son fishing.

Tyson and Paisley going for a ride on a four wheeler.

Me and the boys coming back from a ride. Jared had Crue before but then had him get off while he went on a hill (he was on the pit bike).

There was a fire south of us and we had seen a couple of helicopters with the tank and hose that fills up from lakes fly over us but they weren't filling up where we were (probably too many people on and near the lake) so Jared and I took the boys and Tyson came and we went to watch them fill up at the reservoir south of us. Here are some pictures and videos from that.

Cooper rode with Jared (first time this weekend on a four wheeler). He was so cute. Both when Jared took him and when I took him later we started off not holding him and then would put our arm around him. He would grab our arm and put it back on the handlebar. It was funny.

Crue rode with me. Here's his cheesy smile. He was loving the four wheelers.

In the picture of Jared and Cooper we're sitting on a dirt road that takes you around the south end of Blue Springs Reservoir. There's a campground and some other things that it takes you to. This picture is from there - you can see the helicopter in front with the bucket and the one further back with the hose. We watched the one with the hose fill up from the main road, which is where the picture of Crue is taken.

This is the one we watched from the dirt road. It went right over us and there was water falling out of the bucket as it went over us so we got some sprinkles. It was pretty cool.

This is the one that we watched from the main road (along with a bunch of other people). It has the hose and it takes about 1 -1 1/2 minutes to fill up what Jared said is probably a 500 or 1000 gallon tank. Pretty amazing. One of these kept flying over us when we were camping to refuel in Cedar we think.

It was a really fun weekend. I love having a three day weekend so we can get a good long camping trip in. We were glad to get home and get showered and get some sleep. Before we had left Crue and Dylan were playing in the dirt (try keeping two boys out of the dirt - not gonna happen) and I look over and Crue's shaking a bunch of dirt off his head that he had just dumped on himself. We decided to give him a shower instead of chancing his bath becoming a mud bath.