Labor Day Camping

Traditionally we go camping on Labor Day weekend with my family up to Silver Creek Plunge however this year they didn't go. My youngest brother Jaron was getting ready to go to BYU-Idaho. So we went camping with some good friends from the ward (Kynastons and Behunins). We went boon docking it and camped just out in the woods...no offical campground. I have been camping a lot of times in my life and I have to say this is a first for me. Camping with no running water (faucets...luckily we were right next to a creek) and no bathroom. (well there was a kind of a make shift toilet there....someone had built a box out of plywood and cut a hole on the top and put a real toilet seat on it. No thank you for me...I prefer to squat in the woods, thank you very much). It was a pretty chilly weekend and there was a lot of dirt. But the kids had a lot of fun playing in the dirt and with their friends.

The younger girls dug and played in the dirt for most of the weekend. Needless to say, after the weekend they were filthy!

The four boys slept in a little tent together. They seemed to have fun goofing off together and glad to be in the same tent until Trevor threw up in the middle of the first night. Luckily (weird to be talking about throwing up being anywhere remotely close to being lucky) he didn't get it all over the tent or over all the others' stuff. He got the majority of it inside his sleeping bag, pillow and blanket. Since it was freezing and like two in the morning we just rolled it all up and threw it into a garbage bag to deal with the next day. Good thing we brought extra sleeping bags. :)

A group of the girls had a little sleepover in Kynaston's camper.

WARNING!!!! This next picture are not for the faint of heart. The next day we waited until the middle of the afternoon to clean up the throw up. We were hoping that it would warm up a bit...however it was still really chilly and the creek water was ICE COLD. After washing the pillow, pillow case, blanket and sleeping bag...Ryan and I's hands were practically numb.

While washing out Trevor's bedding we realized that our kid doesn't chew his food very well. Our friend was very good to take pictures for us while we were cleaning up but I decided not to include the pictures of the throw up in the water. :) There were whole pieces of chicken....does my son not chew his food???

I love this picture of the girls watching us cleaning up the throw up. They look so disgusted. :)

I am not sure if Jordan ever checks my blog or not however last year during our Labor Day camping trip Jordan, Ryan and I burned a box. It was so AWESOME!!! Remember that Jordan!?! The box acted like a chimney and the flames went shooting up through the middle of the box....but it created a vacuum type. It got so loud. :) Anyway ever since then everytime we go camping Ryan and I have tried to do the box burning again. So this is our attempt at it on this trip. The bonfire got so big. We did this late at night after all the kids were in bed...wouldn't want to be giving them ideas. :)

Here is a picture of all the kids. Look at how dirty the younger ones are. They look like they rolled in the dirt. (I think they practically did.)

Thank you Kynastons for finding this spot and inviting us. It was a fun time playing games, chatting, laughing, freezing and staying up until all crazy hours of the night.