Last Friday we loaded up the car to the breaking point to spend the weekend with some friends of ours on Mt. Lemmon. Jacob packed the car and between the camp stove, ice chest, chairs, and sleeping bags, there was no room to spare. Jacob and Marshall were the only ones that didn't have something surrounding their feet. I told Jacob that I wanted to drive on the way home and he just laughed at me.
The second day our kids were so tired and cranky. We told them to go lay in the tent and talk to each other and within 5 min the were out. I think they slept for about 2 hours and It gave us a good chunk of time to play cards with our friends.
The last night we had smores and the kids were SO happy to finally get one. We all only had one because they were way to sweet.
I think we got there around 5:00 pm and right after we got the kids tent and the canopy that we put over the table up, it started to hail like crazy. Our friends took some pictures of the road on their way up and it looked like it had snowed. This is a piece of it in Jacob's ring just so you can see the size of the hail that was coming down hard on us in the middle of July. Crazy.
Soon after it stopped coming down, this fog showed up. Almost all the hail had melted by the time I got around to taking this picture.
The second day our kids were so tired and cranky. We told them to go lay in the tent and talk to each other and within 5 min the were out. I think they slept for about 2 hours and It gave us a good chunk of time to play cards with our friends.
They were much happier when they woke up and played really well together until it was time to eat. Cooking was nice and easy because we used Jacob's two burner camp stove. One of those big ones that uses a full size propane tank. It was really nice and was so glad that we had it. I highly recommend one.
The last night we had smores and the kids were SO happy to finally get one. We all only had one because they were way to sweet.
We had a fun time and I think we will make camping a yearly event. We were there two nights and we got super dirty and the laundry was ridiculous when we got back. I think it took me like 5 days to finally get the last load all folded and put away.
5 comments:
I am so jealous! I miss camping in Arizona... We tried it once last semester in UT and it was below 24 degrees as we were setting our tents up! Needless to say, we built a fire, ate dinner, and retreated to our tent and sleeping bags. The thought of games and roasting Marshmallows was FAR from our minds! I really can't wait to spend a summer in Arizona and go camping. Too fun that you got hail and fog too! Oh, I was going to ask you bout the popcorn on the stove...do you just put the kernels in with some olive oil and put the lid on?
such fun family memories. lauren and her family went camping last week also, on mt graham, and got the hail as well!
Looks like fun, wish we could have gone to Mt. Graham this year.
Hey we want to go camping sometime soon. You guys want to go with us?
camping is the best huh? we have gone 2x this year. i plan to now go every year!
we should do a big carpenter/payne campout. we would have to rent half of payson to do so but that would be a blast!!!
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