Park Place: EASTER/SPRING BREAK

We Just had our Easter Weekend/Spring break Thursday through Monday. We had been making plans to go out west camping over this vacation. We watched the weather and worried abit, but when it came down to it we decided to go anyway and if we had to sit in the trailer all the time and just watch movies while it rained, well then that's what we'd do! And so we did, and it rained, but the kids didn't spend much time in the trailer watching movies. We had such a great time. We were invited out by Darin & Kim. There were about 9 or 10 different families out there in our group. Darin & Jameson always made sure we had a great camp fire to sit by to keep us warm. Kids didn't need the fire. They were busy playing in the sand pile, or having a game of baseball. When the weather would break and stop raining we would take a nice ride on the 4-wheelers, as long as we were bundled up well. Grandma P, Becky, Alan, & Brock came out one day to visit with their rhino. Alan was giving Mike's drivers ed lessons in the Rhino. LOL. We did a little buzzing around on the Rhino until the weather started turning off a little cold and wet then they packed it up and went home. It was fun to have them come out and visit. Because we had so many people up there we had to have to separate camp fires. The kids had one and the adults had one. We still all fought to get our peace of the heat. The kids got to have a Easter egg hunt. They thought that was great. We had our good camping food, like dutch oven dinners and tin foil dinners. We did our famous BIG breakfast on Saturday and Sunday. Which it is not really a big breakfast, but just bacon....(and yes Darin it was turkey bacon not real beef...lol) and hash browns and scrambled eggs done on the grill outside. It was so nice to have a break and get away and not worry about anything. It was tough to come home, but I guess I needed a real good shower anyway. I was beginning to smell hickory smoked. Well not that bad, I did cheat and ran home one night and took a real shower and freshened up. We cheat a bit. I guess that is whats nice about being a "NEPHI REDNECK".....we camp where we can still see our home......and we could see it. Course one of us had to run in every night anyway to feed the cat so why not sneak a shower in. But, in all seriousness getting out away from the hustle and bustle even if it is just across the way, was peaceful. Even though we were cold....we made do. Even know the bed is hard to sleep in, and I have insomnia issues if I don't have a TV to listen to all night, I made it work. I toughed it out and just did it because I needed the break, solitude, the peacefulness. Our family needed this time together. Yes it was cold, yes it was rainy, yes it was muddy......but it was an awesome getaway. I do love to go camping. Here are a few photos snapped here and there. Not to many, it was to wet to take the camera out a whole bunch.

This was looking down at our campground from up on the mountain a ways