Camping with the Cummings...

This last weekend we headed back down to Bear Lake to go camping with David's mom and dad . Except this time, when we woke up on Saturday morning it was FREEZING - you could see your breath it was so cold. It was raining so the most part of that day was spent playing games in Grandma and Grandpa's trailer and watching Follow Me Boys. The boys loved it though, Bryson got pretty good at Bananagrams - towards evening it stopped raining and the sun came out for a bit - it was still chilly but David and his dad took the boys on a 4-wheeler ride. The pics below are of us sitting around the fire that night after a yummy dutch oven dinner cooked by my sweet hubby. Here we are listening to Grandpa Mike tell a story and boy can he ever tell a story - some of you that are reading this may have had him for a teacher and you know he can tell a good story. A few tall tales... :) It is so funny because during these stories Bryson and Dillon will be so into it and then when he gets to the end they will laugh and say "No sir, Grandpa." Or sometimes they really believe him!! It gets a good laugh out of everybody - well, everybody except for Logan, he was so tired he was falling asleep right on my lap.

Here is Logan the next morning - it wasn't raining and the sun came out but it didn't really start to warm up until about mid morning so I remembered that we had a few extra jackets in our trailer. So we doubled up the boys in jackets and they went out to play. Logan was such a good "helper".

And these two... I couldn't get a picture without one of them pulling funny faces. They also wouldn't put their sticks down. They called them their fire sticks. They had to have them by the fire at night and constantly by their side - we even had to haul them home with us. Pretty cute. I think I remember doing that when I was little too.

David getting the dutch oven ready to start cooking dinner!

We went on a few 4 wheeler rides - I didn't take the camera with me but the trails were so pretty - so many wild flowers still. Picking huckleberries - we picked about 2 gallons worth of huckleberries. David was quite excited about this. Now your probably thinking that isn't that much - huckleberries are about a 1/4 to a 1/2 the size of a raspberry! So yes, this did take quite some time but David was so excited about it. He wants to make huckleberry syrup, huckleberry pancakes, huckleberry cheesecake... the list goes on and on. So, here we are, everyone picking huckleberries, which the boys really had alot of fun. I think it was a contest between all of us to see who had picked the most. Oh, and we ate a few too. :)

The day after we got back David's mom had to go in and get some testing done to see if she is still cancer free. It reminded me that life is short and that it is important to make and strengthen family relationships while we are here. I am so glad that my boys were able to go camping with their grandma and grandpa and make some memories.