Tony's vacation, part 2

The morning of July 22nd, we packed up and drove up to the Uintahs. Tony had gotten the kids fishing poles and they were dying to use them!

We first got our tent set up at the Butterfly Lake campground and then hiked the short distance down to the water.
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Christian says "Butterfwy Wake" so cute!:





Tony and I took turns casting for Christian, but Faith learned pretty quickly to do it for herself.

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Here's one I got on video:



Tony let Buddy reel this fish in and he was so excited! He even had to pet the little thing. Faith told him that we were going to eat it and Christian said, "I not want my fish to died!"

When Christian got tired of fishing, I wandered around with him for awhile. I took this picture sitting at a picnic table in an empty campground. I wish we had noticed this one! Then we could have actually rolled out of bed and down to the lake in the morning :)









Buddy was also very excited about finding this "doggy foot print."



After awhile, Christian got pretty tired and was laying on a rock. His sweet sister came to his rescue and let him relax on her lap for awhile.






Faith reeled in this little beauty of Tony's.


I don't know what Tony was in the middle of saying or doing in this photo, but I don't think I've seen that particular expression on him before!



When we got back to camp, we roasted hot dogs for dinner and then, of course, did marshmallows, too.


We slept pretty well that night in our tent even though the hard ground wreaked a bit of havok with the bodies of us old people. It didn't get cold at all and, as you can see, Tony & Christian slept in pretty late.





I made a camp breakfast feast of eggs, bacon, sausage, orange juice, milk and hot chocolate. I heated the water in a kettle and the kids had never seen or heard one before! I had to stop everything for a minute and teach them the "I'm a little teapot" song!

The kids loved everything about camping. Even making "waterfalls" with the dirt!

Christian never figured out how to cast, but he sure loved reeling it in by himself.

Even though Tony let Faith reel in a fish of his day before and two that day, she decided that she absolutely had to catch a fish all by herself on a line she'd cast out. It was getting late and I was worried that it might not happen, when she finally got one! Not long after that, she caught another!! What a great little fisherwoman, especially for her first try. Tony said that she's already caught more fish and can cast out farther than Tammy, who was drug along camping and fishing her entire young life ;)

However, she wasn't quite perfect at it. In fact, she had so many flub casts that hit the rocks and broke so many water bulbs that we ran out! Tony thought that the new 10-pack he bought would last us for two days, but now we know that we should buy double or triple that for next time.

After pulling Faith away from her new favorite sport, we headed back to Kaysville. We got home and spent just over an hour showering, unpacking and repacking the car and headed right out to the condo at Park City!

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We met up with my parents, sisters and their families and had fun eating out and doing lots of swimming.

We did just a little bit of shopping this time. Mom bought Faith this for next year

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and the sweater for school. Celeste got the same one and Alaura and Sierra got the same style in different colors. We're going to dress them up to match for Thanksgiving!

We hadn't been 0n the Alpine Slide for a few years, so we thought we'd take the kids. Here we are riding up the mountain on the ski lift,

and the kids at the bottom of the slide. Christian's not happy because he wanted to go "dust one more time?!!!"

They also had an outside inflatable fun area that we paid for the kids to participate in.

We had such a fun time! The kids keep begging to go back on the Alpine slide and I told them that we would try to make it a yearly tradition.

Before we left the condo and headed home, Joy broke out some bandanas and made them into pioneer handkerchief dolls. She meant to do the activity on Friday for pioneer day, but we just didn't get to it. They turned out so cute!

Late that afternoon, we finally got home to stay. Tony lit off a few "daylight" fireworks before Christian passed out for a late, but completely overdue, nap (and the rest of us totally vegged out). They were fun little parachute guys and these colorful streamer "spiders" that the kids loved to watch falling from the sky and ran to catch.

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We sure did fit a lot of fun with friends, family, and ourselves into Tony's summer vacay!