Duck Creek Camping

From 2010-07-04

We recently returned from a weeklong camping trip in the mountains of Utah with our family from Colorado. It was a great time and we had lots of fun together.

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Aslyn and Noah and yes, Peanut. She got to go on this camping trip and was in doggie heaven with all the chipmunks running around.

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Mommy and Aslyn trying to catch a fish. We had a nice time together but didn't catch anything. Of course, its a little hard to when the pole is constantly moving. Maybe next time. She was content to play with the sparkly garlic marshmallows and find treasures in the rocks.

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Grandma Retha brought construction paper and scissors and made a squirrel with Aslyn one afternoon.

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Noah coming out of the camper. He loved the stairs and was up and down them many a time during the course of the week.

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Time with Billy's grandparents.

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Noah and Papa Bill. Each morning it was a race to get the first child awake out of the trailer before he/she awoke the other one. Sure was nice to have grandparents outside and waiting for them.

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Aslyn laughing as Grandma Clark wears her ladybug hat.

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A happy Grandma and her two breakfast charges. We ate super well thanks to Papa Bill and his dutch oven cooking.

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Aslyn's "castle" as she called this pile of rocks someone had made. We made many trips down behind the campsite to her castle.

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Noah and some quiet reading time with Grandma.

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Happy Peanut. Each evening she would come to the campfire looking for a warm lap to snuggle in.

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Ahhh...frisbee. The kids love it.

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Even when you change the way its played with and it becomes something you roll.

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Happy little camper.

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Peanut and Aslyn on one of our many walks.

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Aslyn and Peanut checking out the water.

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Mommy and Noah

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It's great to have grandparents with freezers in their campers to bring yummy ice cream treats.

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Grandpa Clark was the firemaster and took care of grilling the shish-ka-bobs and making our evening campfires.

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Special time with Grandpa Clark.

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Grandma Clark brought the kids each a book and special toy. Noah loved his little white doggie.

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Can you say dirty? Oh my!

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There's that warm lap Peanut was always looking for in the evening.

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This picture does more justice to the term "dirty."

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Buddies.

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The boys hard at work cooking hot dogs.

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That's all folks. We had a great time, but camping in the woods for 5 nights definitely makes a person appreciate their nice soft bed and a warm shower by the time you get home. It was about an 8 hour trip for us and on the way home we were telling Aslyn to look out her window at all the shiny buildings in Las Vegas. She looked for a little bit and then asked, "Mommy, does Jesus live up there," pointing at the top of one of the shiny gold buildings. No honey. Not quite. =)