Our ward has a ward party up in Pine Valley every year. This year we decided to camp overnight with some our friends in the ward as well. We headed up to Pine Valley on Friday afternoon. Our friends were giving us a hard time because we took our camp trailer but I didn't care. I just told them that I don't tent camp. They were all wishing they had a trailer because it started sprinkling rain a little bit and the sky looked really bad. Luckily though, it only sprinkled and the sky cleared up by nightfall. We shared a campsite with Chris and Tara Stanley and Emily and Colby had a blast playing with their daughters Rylie and Hayden. We also camped with Brady and Anna White and Bret and Lori Olsen. All of the kids had so much fun playing together.
After we set up camp, Russell made a peach cobbler to take to the ward party. When it was done, we headed up to the group site for yummy dutch oven dinner with our ward. We love our ward and always have a lot of fun at the ward activities. While at the party, a couple of the little Sunbeams came up to me and shyly said "Hi, Teacher!" It totally made my day! I love it when the primary kids recognize me outside of church and say hi to me. It makes me feel like I am doing something right in this calling.
Because it was Russell's birthday, some of the ward members sang Happy Birthday to him. Brother Thompson even gave him one of his way good cinnamon rolls. That made Russell's day. When the party was over, we headed back to camp and cooked S'mores with the Olsen's and the Stanley's. Instead of marshmallows, we used leftover Peeps from Easter. They were actually really good! After a fun game of Cinderella Uno, we all hit the sack for the night.
The next morning we all came together and made a huge pot luck camp breakfast of pancakes, eggs, hash browns and sausage. It was so good. While we cleaned up camp, all the kids had fun playing hide and seek, tag, and I spy.
It was really quiet for a while so all of us adults stopped and wondered what happened to the kids. Then we found them playing hide and seek in this large pipe under the road! They thought it was a cool tunnel and were crawling through the pipe to the other side of the road. What a cool discovery, right? Well we took some pictures and then told them to stay out of the tunnel.
Then the kids started playing king of the rock except it was "Princess" of the rock because they were princesses (and Prince Colby!). This is a picture of Colby, Rylie Stanley, Faye Olsen, and Emily. They had a blast playing together.
Once camp was cleaned up, we took a hike down to the lake to go fishing. The White boys said they had never been fishing before so we let them practice with our poles. In the above picture is Colby, AJ and Noble White, Russell, Eva and Brady White, and Emily.
Colby loves going fishing and is really good at casting his pole out in the water and then reeling it in. Emily also likes to fish with her pink pole. She liked fishing with her friends and shared her pole with Faye. Russell was busy casting poles, fixing lines and teaching kids how to fish. He let AJ and Noble use his pole. The boys were kind of upset that we didn't catch any fish...
Below is a picture of the tree that was just over our head. As you can see, the tree was full of bobbers, and lures, and fishing line and hooks. I guess a lot of fishermen before us had cast their line a little too high and got their lines stuck in the tree! We couldn't help but laugh at it. There had to have been 20 or more lines stuck in that tree!
Well we finally did catch one little fish. AJ was reeling in Russell's pole and it looked like it had a big snag so Russell went to get it unstuck. While he was reeling it in, Russell realized it was actually a fish not a snag! When he got it to shore, we decided it was too small to keep and tried to let it go. Unfortunately the fish wouldn't swim away and was acting dead. It would swim a little but then go belly up. We tried everything to get it to swim but it wanted to die. The White boys were wondering what the inside of a fish looked like so Russell gave them a little anatomy lesson as he gutted the fish. They were so amazed and thought it was so cool. While dissecting the fish, Russell cut open the stomach to show the boys what the fish had eaten and inside the fish's stomach was two plastic worms! No wonder the fish wanted to die, it couldn't digest the plastic worms. We decided to bury the fish instead of eat it because we didn't know what else was wrong with it.
When we were all fished out, we headed back to our camp, hooked up to the trailer and headed back home to the heat. We had a fun time with our friends.
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