1st camping trip of the year

On the last Saturday and Sunday of Spring Break at the end of March, we went 24-hour camping up to Williams Lake, one of our favorite spots that's conveniently close to our house--it only takes about 20 minutes to get there. I'd been itching to go camping for weeks, and it looked like we wouldn't be able to go at all in April, so we decided sort of last minute to hook up the trailer and go. And I'm so glad we did! The weather was nice, and there was only one other person in the campground besides us, so it was a nice mini-vacation. Our cell phones don't work there, so Josh and I de-stressed. We spent a lot of time just relaxing and the boys spent most of their time playing in the great outdoors, something that we all desperately needed!  

Josh basking in the sun while reading a book: his favorite camping activity.

The boys returning from a bike ride around the vacant campground.

I just love all the nearby rock formations and trails for the boys to explore!

They picked all these wildflowers for me along the trail. How sweet!
I put them in this box and filled it with water so they'd stay alive for the
duration of our camping trip. It was a lovely table centerpiece!

They started a game of Phase 10, but stopped when the wind started blowing.

We made tinfoil dinners and banana boats for our meal that night.
The boys were waiting for the food to finish cooking over the coals.

This was the first camping trip that we've let Tiki join us.
She did so well and liked going, too!

No camping trip is complete without a game of SkipBo!!
First it was just me and Micah, then the other 3 boys joined us.
Unfortunately, that didn't pay off for me and Micah as we both finished last!

Monkey Micah climbing a tree in his socks!!

The boys had been playing with a ball, but it got stuck on the
top of the trailer. Good thing Josh is so tall and Kanyon is so small,
because that was the perfect combination to retrieve it!

The next morning, they played a game of bouncing a golf ball
against the rocks--I don't really get it, but they played it for
a while up until it was time for us to leave and go back home.