Roughing it

Finally, here's some updates from when my sister was in town to visit. This camping trip was up to Trout Lake. It's a really fun little place with a hike up to another lake called Emerald lake.

Here's my nephews Alan and Nathan at Emerald lake. Alan caught a snake in the water.
Here's Trout lake from up on the trail to Emerald Lake

Here's the crew. It is a 5 mile hike all around. The kids did really well, even the little guys (mostly) They only had to be carried part of the time.

This is the start of the hike.

Here's Alan with a craw-dad he caught in the little stream at camp. He decided to let it say "hi" to his mom. She was really excited. :)

Here's nathan helping chop some firewood.

Testing out the hammock. It can hold at least 6 people they found out!

Lucy testing out the hammock

Lucy in her "cage" She is not really fond of being trapped outside all the action, but she was a pretty good trooper for most of the camping trip.

Lane and Nate

Ann and the "little boys" at trout lake at a little fishing hole.

Me and Lucy at the end of the Emerald lake hike. I ended up taking Lucy on the way back so Scott could carry lane if needed. I decided that 7 month pregnant people should NOT carry their 8 month old babies on a front pack for 2.5 miles. NOT FUN! but we made it :)

Alan with another one of his "catches"

The boys rolling a "bench" up to the campfire.

Cooking Dinner.

Lane.. big fan of the hammock

the boys gathering more firewood

All in all it was a fun camping trip. More successful than the next weekend when we got rained out! I think the boys had a great time, and lucy did really well for her first official camping trip. She actually slept PRETTY good in the tent. IT started to rain in the early morning hours, and we had to scramble to get a tarp over our tent. It didn't work so wel cuz we still had some puddles in our tent but it wasn't too bad. We'll definately have to do more camping next summer. It will be interesting with TWO babies.