Well what can I say about the Spirit Lake Trip this year... I guess I could start out by saying "Maybe we should have sat this one out!"

For starters Brady caught a terrible cold and was flat on his back for 4 days before we went. He was in bad shape, and was already starting to have a feeling that this was not gonna be the funnest of times. Monday morning we got up early and drove down to Draper to pick up the trailer we were renting and spent the rest of the day packing up for our trip. Carlie was so excited she just didn't want to go to sleep, so when we woke her up at 5:00am she was so exhausted. She looked out the window and said "it's still night time outside." We finished packing up and off we went. We had a good drive up there until we hit the desert and a giant cattle herd. There was about 20 cowboys herding about 500 or so head of cattle right down the middle of the road. The kids thought it was the coolest thing. We got to camp and started to set up our trailer just in time for it to start hailing, so we got to set it up in the mud and rain.(and so the whining begins!) After the rain stopped the mosquito's came out. Steve had a mosquito net in his trailer so we threw that over the twins stroller and that where stayed for a good part of the trip.



From the time we got there until the time we left Carlie went non stop. She had a absolute blast. Now going back and looking at the pictures I took you can tell Carlie didn't stay still for one moment because there was only a couple of pictures of her. She loved to go out in the boat with grandpa and daddy but didn't really take to the fishing part of it. The first time she went out I guess she got bored because she fell asleep. The second time a fish pooped in the boat and then grandpa tried to make her kiss the fish, she wasn't having any of that. Carlie liked to sit around the fire and toast marshmallows but for some reason wouldn't even try one. Her and Mikas favorite thing to do was go over to the bridge to see "Water Horse" and to throw rocks into the water.



The twins had a blast too, when they weren't strapped into the stroller. Cody found his calling as a mountain man right away! He went crazy, exploring everything he could. He'd run to one side of the camp pointing and babbling and then run to the other side pointing and babbling some more. At one point we tied a rope to the back of his pants so we could keep track of him, he didn't like that too much! Poor little Corie didn't have such a great time. She was pretty sick just wanted to take it easy. She got down a few times and ran around but mostly sat around. The second day we were there, all the kids were in the back of Brady's truck dancing and fishing with Carlie's fishing pole. I looked down for one second to fix the fishing pole and that's all it took for Corie to fall over the side of the truck. I think she landed flat on her back because when i got over to her she was already starting to turn blue because the air had been knocked out of her. I patted her a couple of times and she finally took a deep breath, then cried for a minute and then was off playing again. They loved to go for walks up the road. Cody would take off running and never look back, Corie would go strong for a minute but then DEMAND to be carried. That Cody was like the energizer bunny!



By the second day of the trip Brady's cold started hitting me hard and I was having a tough time hanging out with everyone. All I wanted to do was lay down so I spent a lot of time in the trailer with the twins. Luckily they had fun running around on the bed knocking each other over and slamming into the walls. I opened up all the windows so they could still see everyone so I don't think they were to bummed that mom was sick. I will say one thing though trying to put twins to sleep in the same bed is next to impossible. I learned my lesson the first night, from then on Cody slept with Brady and the girls slept with me.



Okay so the trip wasn't allll that bad! It was just a little rougher than what we are use to. The kids had a great time and thats all that matters.

You cant tell but this was their favorite thing to do!

Don't even think about it! These are all mine!

I wanna do it just like you do it Dad.

Carlie blowing bubbles!

Corie keepin it nice and tidy for us.

Little Man in a Big World

This is the face of a little boy having some fun!