August camping and other Fun

For the weekend of Bryce's Birthday we like to go camping. This year was interesting because of the weather. We had invited 3 other families to come with us and everyone was packed and ready to go when we checked the weather report. It called for rain, hail, thunder and lightening storms and of all things a tornado warning. I thought that didn't sound like to fun so we postponed for one night. Some of the other families couldn't go the next day so our friends the Condie's came up with us. We went to Silver Creek plunge again because it was supposed to rain and we figured we could at least swim in the hot springs. So that is what we did. The first day it rained all day. This gives a whole new meaning to dirt/mud camping. We spent a lot of time in the pool and changed the boys clothes a lot. The kids didn't care though they still had a blast. We went fishing and actually had a lot of luck. We had plenty of fish for dinner. Thanks to the condie family for coming with us we really had a great time.
Our camp stayed nice and dry due to Bryce's tarp contraption. We had a couple of people drive by our camp and smile and say, "it looks like you were expecting rain." See the picture and you will understand what I mean. We also were able to borrow a quad from Bryce's friend. We had a great time riding around on it. Grant and Kent loved to go for rides with dad. And then we discovered that Caleb is quite the adventurer and he got to go on several rides with dad. Now Bryce is not the only one drooling over quads on craiglist. Now he has got all three little boys wanting one too. The only day that it rained was the first day and the next two were warm and sunny. I took the boys over to the little playground one afternoon while Bryce went for a ride with some people he had meet. Over all it was a great camping trip.
Last weekend we got invited to go to a free carnival with some friends. The carnival was so much fun. They had free hot dogs and drinks, cotton candy, snow cones and popcorn. The boys loved the bounce houses and slides. They rode on the barrel train and played all of the games. We played on the bouncy slides until they had to deflat them. It was a great time and thanks to the Cummings family for inviting us.
More fun this week the boys slept on the trampoline with Dad. The boys slept fine, unfortunately Bryce wasn't so lucky. He slept in the middle and ended up with two little boys snuggled right up next to him. Oh well it was a fun experience anyways. Well that is all for this month.