Memorial Day Weekend

We wanted to go camping this weekend but we have never taken the kids tent camping.  My brothers, Nate and Matt, suggested we do a trial run in Nate's backyard.  Sounded like a good idea.  We arrived around 3 PM on Friday and started putting up the 8-man tent Matt loaned us. The kids ran around with cousins sucking on otter pops.  A soccer game got started and Em hopped on the tramp.  When the sun set we started a fire in the fire pit and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows for S'mores of course.  I bought this wonderful gadget that allows you to put the whole S'more together, clamp it and the set the contraption over the fire.  The result is a lightly toasted graham cracker sandwich with a gooey melted mess of marshmallow and chocolate center.  DIVINE!!! 

To top off the night, Nate and Nikki made Dutch oven cherry cobbler.  Yum!  We headed to bed for a quick sleep because the kids woke up with the sun. Mike and I had Emily sleep in between us.  She moves a lot. But is so darn cute its not bothersome. Mike didn't have a lot of room for his 200 pound frame.  As always he never complained. 

We had homemade pancakes and Dutch oven potatoes thanks to Matt and Nate's cooking skills.  Then we headed over to feed the ducks and try to fish at this pond by Nate's house. 

It was time to head home.  Within five minutes the kids were all asleep and I followed soon after.  Mike took a much needed nap after we got home.  

Monday we headed to Payson's Spring Lake Trout Farm since the kids were saying how much they liked fishing.  After an hour we had caught seven fish.  

Michaela was the first to catch one.  She wasn't so sure about touching the fish. 

Caleb was next.

The largest member of our group caught the smallest fish. 

The Michaela and Caleb caught some more. 

After a lot of patience Jake finally caught his. 

Emily loved petting the old sweet farm dog. 

Each child wanted to hold his own fish. 

It was a great weekend! It's always such fun to watch the kids and experience their first time doing something. This weekend was their first tent camping, their first time feeding ducks and their first time catching a fish. It was good to spend it with family. Hope you all had a good Memorisl Day weekend, too!

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