Monday, June 6, 2011

Camping

We went camping this weekend with the Lumley family, Christianne, and us! We had big plans to head to Danny's favorite place, Big Lake. However, a wild fire changed that plan! Instead, he took us to Canyon Creek. It was pretty, but not nearly as gorgeous as Big Lake! We arrived on a Friday, set up camp with Chris, the Lumley kids, Danny, Kaiya, and I. Shar and CC would arrive after CC got off work!

Kaiya is such a wonderful help and went about helping set up our tent, and then set up Danny's tent near by. We got camp set up, and headed into Heber to borrow the grill from Grandma and Grandpa Palmer. Danny took the kids in his truck to gather wood for a fire in the woods, and let Kaiya drive his truck back to camp. She was please as pudding!!

We fixed dinner, and waited for the rest of our party to arrive. It got later and later. Danny and I got worried about them. With Kaiya in bed, we let Chris know we were headed to look for them. We drove out of the Canyon, to find out they were in Heber, having had confusing directions, we redirected them, and waited to lead them down to camp.

When we got to camp, Danny being the gentleman he is, gave his tent up to Christianne. He spent the two nights we were camping in the back of his truck. One of the things I love about Danny is the gentleman he is, and how he sincerely wants to help others!

The next morning, we had promised Kaiya a fishing trip. So, we got up, and went for a small hike to a fun little fishing spot at Canyon Creek that Danny had taken me for the week before during our Memorial Day trip. We walked up, and Danny prepped the lines for he and Kaiya. I was on camera duty. Kaiya got side tracted by some yellow flowers in a spot that was hard to get to, but her ever attentive Danny made sure his Princess had the flower she wanted! She has him hook line and sinker, and it is cute!! After a successful catch and release trip, we headed back to camp. On the trail back, Kaiya shouted "SNAKE" as she stepped over a little slithering friend . . . Danny nearly squashed it!

Back at camp we had pancakes for breakfast, then Danny and I headed into Heber to borrow the boat. He took all the kids out fishing on the lake. After fishing, it was back to camp to play, make dinner, and roast marshmellows. Danny and I had to run the boat back to Heber, Kaiya came with us! We ran into Great Grandpa William said hellow quickly, and headed back to camp.

The following morning we cleaned up camp, Kaiya was a HUGE HELP!! Danny loaded up his truck with a mixture of everyone's gear. We took the gril back into Grandma and Grandpa Palmers. Before heading back to Mesa, we all grabbed a quick shower to clean up!


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