Alum Creek Camping

Thanks to Brett & Meg for the spontaneous camping adventure a couple weeks ago! The boys finished finals Thursday...we hadn't planned to do much other than some yard work and spend time together while Brett had a whopping 5 day break (which included the weekend). On Friday after work, Meg called and said, "Let's go camping!" In a little over 2 hours we were on our way! Brett packed everything while I got our dinners and Emri ready!

Brett N. got the fire just perfect for our dinners to cook on (with the help of Rusty)!

I had planned to make a casserole for dinner, so instead we turned the ingredients into tinfoil dinners and they turned out pretty good (chicken, swiss cheese, cream of chicken, stove top stuffing)!

You would have thought a killer moth flew down Meg's shirt! It was quite the dance!

The weather was awesome! Just enough cool in the air to need a sweatshirt (and my fun headlamp that I HEART)!

Emri dozed off pretty soon after we got there...which made setting up camp and cooking dinner much easier without having to keep a 7 month old entertained!

Enjoying our tinfoil dinners!

Brett enjoying his S'more. A golden marshmallow sandwiched between two E.L. fudge-striped cookies....the only way to go if you ask me!

Kind of a scary picture! Just snuggling at about 7am when E woke up! She slept in her pak 'n play with fleece jammies, like 7 blankets and a beanie! She looked so cute! I forgot to take a pic...she slept great!

Emri with her "gloves up!" Watch out, she has a mean left hook!

Meg made us an amazing breakfast hash somethin' somethin'....hasbrowns, cheese, eggs, ham.....it was soooo soooo yummy! We played Sequence after breakfast. The girls kicked butt!

Our cute little camp site! The camping is a little different than Utah style....there are tons of trees which is nice, but you still have cell phone service because you're basically still in city limits??? The camp sites are all pretty close to eachother. There isn't a canyon to drive up or steep winding dirt roads to travel on. There were flushing toilets (which we used) and even showers (which we didn't use....c'mon, that's not roughing it)! I love the idea of sleeping in a tent, but having the option of running water and an electric outlet if needed is a bonus! Alum Creek is only about a 40 minute drive from home!

Emri eating her cereal and fruit for breakfast

Alum Creek was actually hosting a hydroplane boat exhibition the weekend we were there and we didn't know it beforehand. We watched some of the boats cruise for a while. All I could think about were those Most Amazing Video Clip TV shows when they show these boats lifting off the water and totally crashing. We didn't see any wrecks though! They were cool to watch....and very loud.

Our fam at the lake!

After lunch Brett made a dutchoven peach/bluberry cobbler. MMMMM! Camp food is just so dang good!

E and Meg hangin out! We had a great time! It was fun to be spontaneous....we definitely need to do it more often! I'm bummed we didn't get out camping this summer other than this trip...next year for sure!