Almost a month ago, we had a visit from the Omaha Pauleys and we all headed up to the mountains for a camping trip. The official tally was 7 humans, 2 dogs and 1 cat. Yes, we took Coco camping again, and she probably caught a respiratory infection because of her cold weekend camping, but all's well that end's well. So back to the camping trip. We headed up to the top of the Snowies to a campground that we'd visited before. It was raining a little when we set up camp but that was a nice break from the summer heat.
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| Tootsie and Trigger have lost their "off-leash" privileges due to several infractions during previous camping trips. Really the infractions are basically "completely ignore frantic screaming of our names as we race wildly into the woods towards freedom." |
Coco made fast friends with the Omaha Pauleys and she assumed her perch on Ben's shoulder for most of the weekend. I'm mad at myself for not taking more pictures of the cousins and Uncle Mark and all of the gang everybody was there, you'll just have to take my word for it.
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| Coco's favorite way to view the world. |
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| Will and Reina fighting over what I can only assume is sugary cereal, a camping tradition. (the fighting AND the cereal) |
Our campground was heavily impacted by the beetle kill and most of the trees have been cutdown. There are a lot of little saplings coming up but it looks much different than it did even a few years ago. The light was so pretty and I tried to capture it. Still working on framing pictures but my cute kid makes it worth saving.
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| A man and his kitten. |
The next day, we packed up camp and headed to Brooklyn Lake. The older half of the family (besides me) headed off on a long hike and I stayed back with the kiddos and cat. Reina and I took a little hike by ourselves while Will napped. She's a trooper. We didn't hike far but we stopped to look at flowers and animal tracks and a tree trunk that was particularly interesting. Life is one adventure after another for this kid.
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| Nature girl! |
After the mom/daughter mini-hike, we came back and picked up Will and the cat and walked down to Brooklyn Lake just a short distance from the truck. The day was still a little cool but that didn't stop the kids from sticking their feet in the water.
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| Pretending that he's being dragged into the water by a shark or sea-dwelling monster of some sort. |
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| This is what I get when I say, "Smile for me sweetie." I think this one should probably be saved for the graduation collage. |
I played around with the camera while the kids launched into some complicated scheme that involved lava and bad guys and definitely not touching the water. I slowed them down for a few seconds and grabbed this shot. Without even seeing the picture, Will says, "You should save that one for the Christmas card, Mom." I think he's right.
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| And it's not even a chokehold! |
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