Every year on the Friday before school starts, we have a big campout at Mt. Charleston with our ward friends. This was the first year we could go and we were excited to join in on the tradition. Lots of families came up that evening for Dutch Oven cooking, roasting s'mores around the campfire, and talking. Most people went home later that night but we stayed to sleep in our tents next to the Hackmans, Walkers, and half of the Shakespear and Heaton families. Our next door campers were partying until about 3 in the morning when kind, quiet, and always the perfect gentleman, James, shocked us all and yelled at them to "Shut up!". And they did.
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| The Night Crew: McEwens and cousins, Hackmans, Tuckers, Davises, Stuarts, Heers, Swaseys, Oldhams, Walkers, Heatons, and Shakespears |
The next morning we made breakfast, drank hot chocolate, and went on a small hike. It is so fun to be outdoors and let the kids explore, get dirty, find treasures, and enjoy our beautiful world. The air smells so fresh and clean and I love to see the sun shining through the pine trees early in the morning. It was beautiful. I had to steal a bunch of pictures from Whitney because I didn't take very many so here is a mixture of our pics, along with budding photographers, Carlee, Kylee, and Katelyn.
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| My sweetheart. Love her so much! |
Whitney said the sap in the cracks of the trees smelled like vanilla so of course I had to smell the crack!
James and Brandy Hackman (on left), Paul and Rex Shakespear (on right) with
Ryan and Connor Heaton (below)
Can't wait for the campout next year!
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