Hazen finally got his first camping trip. I still cannot believe that we did not get him out last year but we did not get one camp trip in last summer. That will change this year. This is the first of many that we will take as a family.
We decided on Spring Hollow in Logan Canyon after I finally convinced Amy that the bad weather we were having would blow over Saturday afternoon. As usual, she was right and you can see that things are a little wet in the pic below. But the sun is shining in the background but it did stay very cold. The firepits up here are great if you have little ones. You don't get very warm around the fire but you do not have to worry about them falling in.
Just behind Amy and Hazen in the picture below is the creek that runs down from Spring Hollow. It was running great and is the perfect background noise when you are camping. This is the first time we have used the tent that is also in the background. We upgraded to a vacation cabin from our old tent. This gives us a lot more room and a place for the kids to play if it rains.
When it did not warm up we decided that it was best if Amy took the kids back to the house for the night. I stayed at the camp to stick out the cold and wet night. It really felt like March rather than June. The boys had their coats on the whole time that we were there.
Amy said that Ethan cried all the way to Logan cause he wanted to stay. He helped me with every aspect of setting up camp from the tent to gathering wood. He really loves being outside and was on the move constantly.
As I crawled in my sleeping bag around 11 I was a little upset because it was not too cold at that point and I felt like the kids and Amy could have spent the night without getting too cold. My mide was changed for me around 4 am when the temperature dropped and even woke me up. I stacked blankets on me and was glad that they went down.
The next morning I got up around six and built a fire and some hot cocoa and fried up some bacon. The morning was still cool but the sky was clear as could be. Probably the reason for the cold morning. 
Amy and the boys got back to camp around 10 that morning. We had the camp until 2pm and we stayed for every bit of it. We let Ethan cook some more marshmello's and then we did hotdogs for lunch.
Ethan and Hazen had a lot of fun playing around the camp. Hazen was so bundled up that when he fell he did not feel a thing but then could not get up on his own either. He came out pretty dirty and I smiled with pride.
This is the creek right behind our camp.
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2 comments:
Cute pics!!
Just reading back through some of your older blog posts... getting "Spring Fever" bad looking at these pics.
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