One Last Camping Trip

This past weekend we decided to go on one last camping trip of the season since we didn't have to teach our Sunday School class. We invited to the family to go with us and by the time Friday rolled around we were all ready to head up the canyon and get away for a much needed break!

We just headed up Spanish Fork Canyon. It is so nice to be able to just drive 15 minutes away and be able to camp for free! The weather was beautiful.

The scenery was AMAZING! All of the trees were changing colors so it was so beautiful! Riley spent about 90% of the weekend sitting in either this car:

or this car! She was so good all weekend and had so much fun being able to roam around and get as dirty as she wanted to! I am pretty sure she probably ate about a pound of dirt and 5 or 6 rocks!

Erika was such a good helper and would take the kids on walks everywhere!

When they weren't going on walks they had fun coloring every rock in sight with the sidewalk chalk!

Smile Erika!

 The little ones had fun too. The only problem was we learned they couldn't share a container of chalk! That is okay though cause Wal-Mart had them on sale a couple months ago for a quarter a container so we bought 4 of them for the trailer! Everyone gets their own to play with!

On Saturday after breakfast Papa took the girls to find the perfect walking stick. Lexi refused to stand by Erika for the picture so here is Erika with her walking stick....

 and here is stinky pants herself!

 After sticks were found and bags were packed with juice boxes and bags of muddy buddies they were ready for their hike!

While they were getting ready for their hike we got talking about Indians. Riley was busy drawing all over her face with the sidewalk chalk so Papa helped her out and made her a little Indian Princess!

Apparently Riley thought it was more fun to draw on her face and lick the chalk then it was to draw on rocks!

While the big kids when on a hike this little one took a nap so I could spend some time relaxing and reading!

After they got back we had some snacks. Lexi apparently only likes the cheese out of the cracker and cheese snack packages and likes it put directly on her tongue instead of on a cracker...GROSS!

After resting for a little while we went on a family walk to check out more pretty parts of the canyon. Lexi found some pretty leafs that she was collecting and asked to have one in her hair so she could be a Leaf Princess!

 Family walk time is the best ever! I sure do love my family!

That night for dinner we had tin foil dinners...my favorite!! Here is the assembly line to create your own tin foil dinner!

Apparently we were all really hungry because we sat and stared at the fire just waiting for our yummy dinner to be done!

Riley CHOWED down on dinner that night. She apparently loves tin foil dinners too! She also had about 8 little cherry tomatoes as well!

On Sunday we hung out and relaxed for a little and then started to clean up camp. Just as we were hooking up the trailer to the truck it started to pour! Talk about perfect timing! We hooked up the trailer and through in the last couple things and headed out! It was a fun weekend and I am sad that camping season is now over!