Labor Day Camping Trip

For Labor Day Weekend we decided that it would be so much fun to take the dogs camping. My parents wanted to join and we thought it would be fun to take a few of the grandkids as well. My parents (Grandma & Bucka) took off friday morning with my neice Bryn to find us a spot before the rush. Ryan, myself, my nephew Max, and the two dogs cruised up to the mountains after work on friday night. Upon arriving we pitched our tent, set up for the night and saw the AWESOME tarantula that Grandma had caught earlier in the day when he came walking into our campground. The kids nicknamed him Terry, and he was pretty big. We let Terry go on Saturday morning so he was free to go eat and roam.

This is Terry the tarantula

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This was Joey's first camping trip and he LOOOOOOVED it. I didn't think we were gonna be able to get him in the car to go home. He loved exploring and all the noises and sounds of the mountains.

JOEY

Max......................................Bryn.(Bryn had great bed head)

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On Saturday we decided to drive up to Workman's Creek Waterfall which was just a few minutes away. There wasn't much water flowing down the 200 foot falls but it was still pretty and there were beautiful views from up there. On the way down the mountain we got a flat tire on the subaru.. and I mean FLAT. We pulled over, put on the spare and crossed our fingers that we would make it down the rocky road and back to the campsite safe. It did and Ryan and my dad took off to go find us a tire. FIVE hours later they returned empty handed. After driving for hours, they found a tire shop that had closed 30 minutes prior to them arriving. Oh the joys of camping.

Bryn & Max at the Falls

Beautiful view from the top of the falls

Bryn, Bucka, Max, and Grandma

My boys.... aren't they so cute!

While camping the boys enjoyed teaching Max how to use a slingshot and how to fire a BB gun.

Ryan with the slingshot....................................Max with a BB gun

Bucka showing the kids how to shoot

The Gibsons..................................................The Howards

Jack................................................................Joey

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On Sunday Ben, Rachelle, and Lu drove up to spend the day with us.

Lu enjoying some watermelon.. love those buck teeth!!

Who doesn't LOVE s'mores while camping.

It was a great weekend and we DID make it home safe even though we had to drive SUPER slow on our spare tire the WHOLE way home. My boys (Jack & Joey) are already dying to go again.