Ward Campout!

Well not really a ward campout. It was the Fathers and Sons/Mothers and Daughters Campout. I brought Lauren and Peyton Stone with us since the camp ground was not too far away. We stayed in the camp trailer and the boys slept in the little two-man tent Jackson bought with his allowance a few months ago. They squeezed Hyrum in them and slept like 3 bugs in a rug. Good thing since it got pretty cold that night and started raining at about 4am and didn't let up the rest of the morning. But they stayed dry and slept really well, better then their two mothers who kept looking out at their tent, wondering if they were ok, waiting for them to come bang on thier trailer doors. Bishop Frank Rowley insisted we still have the huge breakfast that was planned, so we set up all the awnings that we had and ate standing up since all our camping chairs were wet. Then Lucy and I took our kids into the trailer and hung out while the men-folk back everything up. Chad and I were the last ones to leave and Ressa started crying because Chad told her he would hike up the hill with her in the morning and now we were leaving. So Chad said, "Let's go!" and he took her and Lauren Stone up to the the top of the hill and back, in the rain, while the other two girls stayed in the truck with the heater on. (Carson and Jackson had already left with grandpa.) So Ressa and company came back down wet and happy and we were able to go home. Good times! 

This picture of the boys in the tent makes it look rather roomy. But I assure you that object in the picture appear larger that they are! These boys had such a great time together and Sarah and I laughed so hard at them. They told us they were going to scare everybody by jumping out of the tent yelling "Predator! Predator!" Pretty scary stuff. The weather that night was so beautiful! The wind died away and we had a nice evening by the fire.