4th of July

For the 4th of July weekend we packed up and went camping with my Brother Nick, his family and inlaws. We went to Miller Flats Reservoir and it was a beautiful weekend in the mountains. We decided to leave on Fri. night at the last minute so when we got up onto the mountain it was dark and they were not expecting us. After an hour of driving around looking for our camp we decided to pull of the road and camp for the night. As soon as we started to turn around our headlights lit up our camp and we were there at about midnight. That was a bit of an adventure.
Our little family hasn't been camping all year so we were all excited to get out and sleep in the great outdoors. I got to take a nap everyday (which I loved!) and we had lots of great food and great company. We tried a little fishing a couple times with no luck. My nephew Brig doesn't like to leave the pole in the water long enough to catch anything, he wants to keep casting.
My adorable niece Sophia & I sat back and watched while we ate Goldfish :) Poor Sophia is allergic to mosquitos so she was swelled up the entire weekend the poor thing :(
We got the worm on the hook!
Here's Brigham getting ready for ANOTHER cast.

There was a hole in the ground behind our camper that Chevy discovered the very first day. I'm not sure if she saw a rodent run down it or if she just smelled them in there but she definitely knew exactly what it was for. Anytime she was missing we'd look around the camper and there she would sit, a few feet back from the hole, just waiting patiently. She never caught anything but I got some great shots of her watchin' the hole.
Koda had a blast running around, smelling everything and playing with the other dogs and the kids. Noelle's parents have a HUGE mastiff that outweighs Koda by at least 75 pounds but she did not intimidate our little Bear. He played and wrestled until he got tired and then he curled up in a blanket on mommies lap by the campfire. We know our dogs are spoiled, we just like em' that way :)
It was fun to camp but mostly fun to hang out with family. We don't get to see Nick & his family as much as we would like because we live kinda far away. Their kids are both at really fun ages and we love to hang out with them all. On Sunday it rained and then snowed so while Noelle tried to put Sophia down for a nap Nick & Brig came and hung out in our camper with us. We taught Brig how to play Go Fish and ate cookies and gummy worms.

Thanks for all the fun memories Nick, Noelle, Brigham, Sophia, Sox, Oscar and Taylor Family!!! We can't wait to do it again soon.