more camping, hiking, and playing

So we got home from Atlanta late Tuesday and spent Wednesday unpacking, doing laundry, sorting the mail, returning phone calls, working on JWD, grocery shopping, and repacking for our Techmeyer camping trip at Stateline Lake. The turn around time wasn't quite enough. I had packed the tent in the trailer and the tent poles in the van, but forgot where I had put the tent poles, thought I must've left them home, so we put up our screen tent to sleep in (thanks to David for having some extra blankets to make walls), unpacked the van with the sleeping stuff, and found the tent poles. Needless to say, we had spent enough time putting up the screen tent that we opted to just sleep in that rather than putting up our real tent.

We played on the lake quite a bit, even though it was pretty chilly. David brought a paddle boat and Michael brought a rubber raft so we had some fun toys. We learned that mosquitoes don't like mouthwash--when chairs and people are spritzed with mouthwash the mosquitoes stay away. Nice to know. It was a fun trip.

We celebrated Pioneer Day with our good friends: Sam, Rachelle & Seven Smith, Cash the dog, and Santiago, their foreign exchange student. We hiked to Dog Lake at the top of Millcreek Canyon. It was a gorgeous afternoon and a pretty steep hike. We love that our kids enjoy hiking and look forward to next season when Jane will be packing herself.

A few days later we saw cousins at the Duane & Effie Wright family reunion. We did lots of fun things including making and launching rockets. This is a super cool picture of Anna launching hers.