July 3-13, 2014

July 3rd, Nelson took the kids to Lamont, Idaho to fish. You can tell when Nelson's in charge and I am at work. The kids go fishing and Evy's hair looks interesting.

July 5th we went to the Cache Valley Cruise In on Main Street. Gene & Karlene came as well as Winston and Maggie.

Holly & Maggie

Maggie, Holly & Lindsey Blau

Gene and Coleman

Nelson, Karlene, Gene, Maggie, Winston, Evy and Coleman

July 6th we went to Blacksmith Fork Canyon for a weenie roast with our neighbors the Henries, Maggie and Winston. Nelson, Winston and Coleman.

Coleman loves playing in the water and eating s'mores.

Holly and Maggie. Rays of sunshine.

Nelson fishes any moment he can.

We've had a lot of s'mores this summer and I don't plan on stopping. Evy and Holly.

Sawtooth National Forest at Cleveland Lake. July 10-13. Ignore Coleman's pink jacket. He already soaked his the first day we got there. We bought him this mini bow and he loved it. He shot it over and over again (or I should say made us shoot it for him).

We drove around for a spot near the creek. Luckily we got there on a Thursday before everything filled up. My kids loved the creek and taking walks around the double loop campsites.

It was super hot at home. Here it was 70s-80s. It felt so much better.

We brought our canoe and went out a couple times a day. We made fun of a huge "Wilson" family reunion that wore matching t-shirts. When they'd hike around the lake Evy would try to get them with her squirt gun from the canoe and yell "I'm going to get you Wilsons!" It made me giggle.

My kids dining for lunch. They know we bring more fun food when we camp so they get into the pantry constantly.

We took a drive and explored. This was a mini cave. Snow was all around and it was fun to play in when it wasn't cold outside. Wouldn't that be the perfect winter?

I hope you enjoy my kids' scroungy camping clothes.

We drove up to the top of the mountains to the ranger station. They have a fire lookout point there. You can see everything from here. It was cold up there but pretty. The ranger let us come in the station, look at things and show us how it all works.

Holly, Nelson and Coleman. My kids loved these squirt guns. Evy took this picture.

Nelson wanted to deep fry some breaded fish. No one wanted to touch the fish but him so we ate a different dinner. He loved it though. We cooked over the fire a lot this trip in the dutch ovens or on the grill.

Evy likes to sing atop things and she also likes me to take her picture. She also kept wandering off to this older couple's campsite and hanging out with them and their dog. Evy is a very unshy child to say the least.

Nelson enjoying his feast. He loves, loves, loves the mountains.