Hangin' In There: Camping ~ Huntington

Our yearly camping trip with our friends did NOT disappoint yet again. We were in charge of finding the campsites and planning everything. We google-mapped it out, it looked like it had an AMAZING beach, trees.....you know, pretty much anything we could have hoped for.

Guess what.

It didn't What it DID have was a cement foundation around the grass and then water. No beach. Period.

Oh well, we were going to find other ways to have fun, right?!

Day #1: We showed up, it rained. We cooked dinner in our trailer and then herded our entire camp in and out of there to eat. We then just hung out in the trailer for the rest of the night. Yipee!!

Day#2: It rained. It wasn't just a steady rain, mind you. It would rain for about 30 minutes, stop, and clear up. You'd walk outside, hang out for 20 minutes and then run for cover because here comes yet another storm. This lasted ALL. DAY. LONG.

After spending the entire morning in our camper, and everyone else cursing their wet-logged bedding, we decided to head out. See, Huntington also sports a dinosaur museum.

What?!

Now THAT'S excitement.

So we loaded up, headed out, and stayed there pretty much all day. I was so ticked off I didn't even bring my camera along. You can tell when I get in a good mood because I then will start taking photo's. You'll notice we nigh have ONE photo until Day #3.

HOWEVER. When we got back that night, the rain had let up, so we all got out the ol' camping chairs and a harmless game of "duck duck goose" broke out. Let me say that "harmless" only applies to BEFORE the men decided to join in. Once that happened, we had overturned chairs, some tears, and even bribes. At least it got interesting...haha.....

So Day #3: Waterday. We decided to spend the entire day in the water. We played in it, the boys caught craw-fish and then we ate yogurt so that our kids wouldn't get all sick from the stagnet water they played in all afternoon. Our kids also found that there was a bountiful supply of cotton floating all around the camp. You'll see Crede playing in it down below in the photos. It was fun for them at least.

Day #4: We packed up, took our traditional photo's (yes there are bear photo's in there....some silly faces, and even a "sexy pose"). We then decided to all go to lunch before venturing home. I was so mad at lunch when our order was messed up each time, it was crazy busy and we ended up spending like 40.00 for our family's meal. Bah!!

Oh, and did I mention that I was 8 1/2 months pregnant? I think that MIGHT have added to my ornery-ness. Just a guess.

Anyway, enjoy the photo's. There's a LOT of them.

Our camp ~ such a pretty night.

The awesome game of

"Duck Duck Goose". See that photo of Chance almost at a 45 degree angle? He totally pulled over that chair around that turn....and knocked Moses Pack off of it. Afterwards, he felt so bad that he bribed Moses with an entire package of cookies all to himself. I'm SURE Sara really appreciated that.

Yep, here are those cookies.

Do you think Moses liked 'em?

All the cute kids sitting around the circle waiting to be the Goose.

That picture of John and Alan cracks me up everytime. I can almost hear John yelling......it makes me laugh. And then there's calm, content, Nate sitting with Liberty. Sara and Nate are such good parents.

Cute Liberty. I love that line across her nose when she cried.

Gage pretty much spent the entire camp in that stroller. I was so impressed because he didn't care. He sat in that thing a LOT. Adalynn took pity on him though and decided to walk around with him one night.

Crede enjoying the game...

These are the 4 boys that wanted to catch Craw-fish the most. Ian, Dallin, Miles, and Tyler.

Gage, Adalynn, and Owen all spent an entire afternoon in this playpen. It was so hard watching our kids when we were RIGHT next to the water....with NO beach. They at least enjoyed each other's company....

Cute Adalynn napping amongst all the noise...

Doesn't that water look so clean?!

Yep, this is where the kids played all afternoon. No beach, no sand....but yet they still were able to play with the sand-toys. Nice.

Goggles!! They crack me up every year.

I loved Adalynn's hair.

ha!

Aaand there's Chance playing on the innertube with all the kids.

One of the things I love about camping.....naps where and whenever you feel like it.

Check out that Craw-fish. NASTY!!

Mmmmmmm....chocolate milk.

This is when the kids figured out how to hook all the cotton onto branches, and then transfer them to Rachel's hair. She was so cute with them.

My dream dog. Some of the other campers up there had some really cute puppies. I LOVED this one.

This was a common view. Me, on the reclining chair (Did I mention that I was 8 1/2 months pregnant here!?) and Gage in his stroller. Doesn't he look thrilled?