Letting sleeping dogs lie...

In case you miss it. I have posted a million blogs tonight (okay 6) to share all of these wonderful camping pics that I promised you. Here are the links to the previous ones...

camping 1
camping 2
camping 3
camping 4
camping 5


So the kids couldn't wait to get to bed Friday night. We soon found out though that it was COLD at night. Princess ended up in bed with Chef and I. In fact it was so cold I couldn't sleep unless Chef was in bed (he went night fishing). I would sleep between Princess and Chef (they were both toasty warm all night).

On Saturday I had taken Princess down to take a shower and then Chef and the boys left. I couldn't leave the fire to put her to bed so this is where she went to sleep.

Ramsey Donner - our puppy...LOL okay so he isn't a puppy he will be 9yrs old on Christmas. That's 63 dog years. Can't tell can you. Nah neither can we.

Although he acted like a typical old man in the water. He wouldn't go any farther then here. Molly, the golden lab friend he made, was 9 (63) as well and she out swam him like crazy. Guess he didn't want to get his tail wet. Vain boy.

Random pics from our trip.

I guess everything doesn't have a story huh. Here are some pics I love.

Over in this direction is our campsite. Yeah I am not sure where either. Chef and Little Man were fishing so we were by the lake.

After the tire swing fun the kids were thirsty.
While Little Man and Chef fished Monkey and Princess played in the water and sand (read mud).

The open flame...

What are you doing daddy?

Yummy smores!


Yummy banana boats!

A couple nights later Princess tried her hand at chopping the wood. A girl's work is never done is it.

Welcome...

Welcome to our campsite. Come on in and make yourself at home.



We love houseguests. Doesn't he look sweet. I asked him to wipe his feet but then he gave me this stare. Typical.

Dinner guests are welcome as well. Only I wish this one had used his silverware instead of is hands. Oh well I guess it's okay we're camping you know.

Our casa is your casa!

Whew we're here!

So Chef waited until the last minute to get us a campsite. Typical huh. Labor day weekend and HELLO I know there is no way we'll find a site and we will have 3 ticked off kids. UGH! We got lucky though and some cancelled at 11Mile. Off we went hoping to beat everyone there who might be trying to snag a last minute site.



WHEW! We got it! An awesome site at that. We had room for 4 tents if wanted but of course we were alone this time...

or were we. While I put together a snack for the kiddos (and me I was famished) and Chef ran down to grab some wood for the fire later on I had a couple vistor's. They said the campsite was thiers and they had already set up thier tent. (Did you see a tent in that first pic? Well of course not cause there isn't one....oh wait it's WAY up in the rocks off to the left of that pic. I had no idea it was with this site - there are sites all over) So they rush down to meet Chef at the reservation office. Nope sorry the site is ours.

See this couple failed to place thier permit in the handy dandy little site marker and the Ranger assumed it was available and gave it to us. Well so now it's ours (good thing since we were ALL set up by this time - we had been there 2 hours) but they were nice and found another location for the other couple. (btw - our site was better - they had no rocks or tree's on thier new site - shhh)

A camping we will go...

All packed up and ready to go. You coming? I know you've waited all week for this so lets head out okay.