Memorial Day Camping

**Warning! Picture overload!**

We went camping at Three Peaks Memorial Day weekend with my cousin and his family from Vegas (I've only invited him several times and he finally came:)). We went out Thursday night to set up a little tent I have and leave our Blazer, a couple of chairs we don't care about, and some firewood so it looked like someone was there and save our spot. Not that we needed to. The campground wasn't filled up. We went out Friday after work. Jared and I had Sonny Boys for dinner (YUMMY!!) and the kids had Arctic Circle.

My cousin, Caleb, his wife Lisa, and their son Tyce, got there late Friday night. We helped them set up their tent real quick. Jared and Caleb had a hard time getting their air mattress to fill up (it has a built in pump that they found out too late, has to be charged). They finally got it blown up and it went flat in the night (it worked the next 2 nights).

Our campsite. We got a tent trailer a few weeks ago for a really great deal (Jared's wanted one since he was little) and I was SO glad we had it. The wind that was only supposed to be around Friday, had so much fun it stayed Saturday too. It was not fun at all. We all ate in our trailer and I spent some time in there out of the wind. The boys however, were just happy to be climbing on rocks and playing in the dirt. Notice our tarps around the pavilion to help block the wind.

 We took our pit bike and Blazer to have fun on while camping. Jared and Caleb each took the boys for rides (the boys LOVED going for rides). Caleb and Cooper - who continually asked for a ride.

 Caleb and Tyce

 We all laughed our heads off when we saw this picture.

 Caleb and Crue

 Cooper had smashed his finger really bad in Aly's walker. It took a while for Jared to get it out because he was holding Aly while I had gone for water. He ended up putting her down and opened up the walker enough to get his finger out. Jared said it was awful knowing Cooper was hurting and trying to figure out what to do since he had Aly. He was crying when I got back so I held him and put a bandaid on his finger so he'd feel beter (he wanted one). Then he wanted a ride on the pit bike and said it would make him feel better. He was happier after that although it still hurt the rest of the day.

The little boys all hopped in the back of the Blazer to go rock crawling. The big boys hopped in front and left all the girls at camp. They had fun and Jared and Caleb were glad for a break from the pit bike (the seat is hard and they were getting sore bums).

 Caleb showing Crue and Cooper videos of Tyce going for rides in Caleb's truck (not the truck he brought camping) after lunch when it was windy.

Aly enjoying lunch in the booster seat on the floor.

 The boys loved climbing all over the rocks.

 Their faces made me laugh in this picture!

 Jared relaxing on the rocks (lasted 30 seconds at the most).

Caleb relaxing on the rocks (also lasted 30 sec).

 Lisa had told Tyce to tickle Caleb so all the boys joined in and attacked him.

So cute eating apples together (I couldn't get one with regular smiles so this was the best one)

 Tyce is so cute. The boys had so much fun playing together (there were fights at times but they did good).

 Daddy and Aly hanging out.

Caleb called Crue raccoon eye. I wonder why?

 They caught a lizard (not sure who caught it originally) and the boys had fun with it.

 They're all smiles.

 All of them wanted to hold it.

It had jumped on Cooper a couple of times and Tyce once.

 Each family took a breakfast and a dinner to cook for everyone and then did their own lunches. We both had done dutch oven chicken and potatoes with a cobbler/crisp for dessert. In true redneck fashion, we're cooking on a radiator. It was so good!

 Aly, Tyce, and Crue enjoying the fire. We actually got to sit and eat outside Sunday when it was beautiful weather. And we had a fire complete with smores (my favorite).

I had sprayed some greasy sunscreen in her hair (the only spray kind we had) and it went greasy and crazy after that. Don't worry, she was still so dang cute.

 Jared found part of dead tree that he tried to pull back to our site with the pit bike. Didn't work. It needed the truck.

 The boys liked pulling the bark off it for the fire.

 When Jared and I went to get ready for bed that night, I found the boys sleeping next to each other. It was so cute! (Thanks to Caleb for the glow sticks each night.)

 They found a huge lizard as we cleaned up camp but it eventually ran under a rock before they could get it.

Aly eating a cookie while we cleaned up (love that hair). She was ready to go home, as were we all.

It was a lot of fun and I'm really glad Caleb, Lisa and Tyce came. Thanks guys! Hopefully next time we can go and not have such terrible winds. Crue, Cooper, and Tyce all had so much fun together, and even Aly got to join in on the fun sometimes.