Hobbitses Day 2: More Camping

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Day two of camping started off with omelets for breakfast.  Then more ATV rides while the kids went back to work on their project of filtering the creek that runs into this lake.  They spent the entire day working on this.

Chillin' at camp

Cooling off in the creek

The wild flowers were beautiful

Steve and Aubrey

Tyler and Zac

Addy and Allyson

 Aubrey drove Steve back to camp

More chillin'.  Like a villain.

This man has been working hard all summer.  He needed this break.

Carving

 Roasting hot dogs for dinner

Heidi

Sierra

Heather and Sierra

 This kids were crazy during this game of Skip-bo.  I have a Video of them I will have to post later.

So the adults were down at the other camp brushing teeth and stuff when all of the sudden we noticed it was as bright as day over at the camp where the kids were.  And we heard excessive fire popping and crackling. We decided we better go check it out.  The kids had put about 50 logs on the fire (I might be slightly exaggerating) and you really can't tell from this picture, but we had a bonfire going.  In the middle of our campsite.  Surrounded by dry pine trees. We tuned the fire down a bit.

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Hobbitses Day 1: Camping In Manti Canyon

Monday, July 1st, 2013

Steve's sister Heather and her family came to visit us the first week of July.  Their last name is Hobbs.  I don't know if they know this, but our family, being that we like Lord of the Rings and all, pronounce the plural of their name as Hobbitses.  So the Hobbitses  got in on Sunday night from Missouri.  We left first thing Monday morning to go camping in Manti Canyon.  It was a great start to a great week.  First thing we did when we arrived at our campsite was break out the food.  We were all starving.

The Hobbitses dad is named Steve.  Which can cause some confusion when there are two dads around named Steve.  In the past, we have called my Steve Frank.  I'm not sure I remember how that nickname came about.  But my kids and I were watching a show about a week before they came, and one of the guys on it was called Redneck.  So we decided that when the Hobbs were here we would call this Steve Redneck.

After getting everything unloaded and setting up the tents, Redneck started chopping wood.  All the kids wanted to chop too.

 Zac and Tyler whittling.

After luncheoning and chopping, half the group went on an ATV ride.

 The other half of us went exploring.

This is the beginning of what turned into 2 full days of damming, channeling and filtering this little creek that ran into the lake.  It kept all of the kids occupied for the remainder of the trip.

The girls found some fishing line and hooks and Aunt Heather helped them make fishing poles.

On our way back to camp we saw a deer, this was just a few feet away from our camp site.

And this is pretty much what I did for most of the trip.  I kicked back in my lounge chair and read a book.  It was absolutely fabulous.  This is the view I had.

We played our official family game. Farkle.  Steve's family has been playing this since he was little and we play it every time we get together.

It takes forever to play Farkle with Addy.  We had to limit her amount of shakes and here she is blowing on her dice.  It took her like 20 minutes just to roll one hand.

That evening Steve, Heather and I went on a ride. 

 It was absolutely beautiful and it was even a little bit chilly.

This picture doesn't even begin to do it justice, but this was an absolutely gorgeous sunset.  It was so beautiful and quiet and peaceful on our ride.

It looks like Sierra is licking Emily's knee in this picture, but they are really several feet apart.

Happy Birthday Uncle Sam!

On July 9th, my baby brother turned 26!  Poor Sam.  He grew up in a house with 4 older sisters.  But despite that, he turned out just fine.  He just became a dad last November.  He is the cutest dad ever.  He had a lifetime of training for it.  He became an Uncle for the first time when he was 10 years old and Zac was born.  They have been the best of buds ever since.  Zac was even the Best Man at Sam's wedding.  A year ago Sam and his wife Teresa moved to Ohio.  Before that they were going to school at BYU Idaho.  We loved having them so close to us and my kids became so close to them.  We are sad that the live half way across the country now.  We are glad that Sam shared his wife and daughter with us for a week and a half last month.  Maybe we will get to see him some time soon too.  Happy Late Birthday Sam!

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