Let the summer begin.......

Many people say that the summer begins on Memorial Weekend. Well in Washington we still have school for another month, however we don't want to miss out on all the summer fun, so for the last 7 years we have gone camping on Memorial Weekend. It's a great way to start the summer season. We have always gone camping in Carnation, Washington. This year we decided to change it up a bit and go camping far away from grocery stores and head to the mountains. We camped at church camp called Zarahemla. It was great for me, since this is where I am taking the YW this summer for girls camp. (I am the Stake YW camp director). Some years it has rained the whole time but this year we had great weather. Along with the great weather we had 7 other families (20+kids) to enjoy the fun with.

So why do we love to go camping..... here are a few of the reasons:

*Time together as a Family

*Pretty Scenery

*Playing in the water

(too cold to swim in, but look at the work out Zeke got rowing 5 kids around)


*The kids play and play
(below: Hunter, Alyssa, and Lydia)
*Dutch oven cooking
(below is our groups Dutch oven potluck dinner)

*A fun talent show Saturday night

Landon and Mason sang "You Give Love A Bad Name" beat boxing like Blake Lewis from American Idol

Give them microphones and an audience and they are in heaven.Magician Sali Kai
The McInelly Skit (Ballerina will be posted at a later date, it deserves its own post)

*Just hanging out

Our Happiest Camper!!!

Jacob loved camping and he was as good as ever.

We sure do love this little guy!!

*Not so fun is the long drive, however going home we went over Chinook Pass it was absolutely breathtaking.