Mermorial Weekend

Emjaes first camping experience, and well in fact it was our first camping experience together. We ended up going camping with my whole family in Dixie natioanl forest.
(james was taking the picture :( )
Its here in Utah right next to Capital Reef. It was about a 2 1/2 hr drive for us. We left Friday night after Ashley's graduation and got there around 11:30 pm. Let me just say my first experience at the camp site was not great. It was down pouring and Amy and Alex had to set up there tent because they just arrived 5 minutes before us and the same with Trevor, Kate and Paul. (Kate is Trevors fiance) I was so grateful that we were sharing a tent with my parents and they had it all set up and had the air mattress up and ready as well as they had blankets all put together for us. Not to mention that I was so grateful that I had Emjae and that we could go hide in the tent while everyone else had to help set up. It rained the whole night and was still sprinkling in the morning.
Erik and James made us all pancakes though. And I must say they were good.

After breakfast we had to head into town to find a laundry mat so we could put all the wet clothes in a dryer.

We headed back up to camp and well even though mom and dad had set up a little canopy over the table area we decided to still put up some more tarps to block the rain.

The whole weekend had thunderstorm warnings.
Sunday morning turned out to be nice. We ate breakfast and then decided to go hiking at capital reef. We ran into a herd of cows on our way there and well I think thats as close as I want to get to so many cows again.

We went on a nice little hike that was about a mile each way. The trail led to a rock arch. Alex went fishing instead, but all the boys and Kate were ahead of Mom, Amy and I. Amy and I are pregnant, and amy has asthma and well all 3 of us are so out of shape that there was no way we would be able to keep up with them. From time to time James would stop with Emjae and wait to make sure that us girls were okay.

We finally made it to the Arch and well James, Trevor, Erik, and Paul decide they want to go on top of the arch. They go ahead while the rest of us sit and wait and just enjoy the view.

After our hike we stopped by a petroglyph site. Amy was wondering if they were real or if people just carved them and said they were real. I guess we will never know in this life. We also stopped and took a picture of a pile of rocks called Chimney Rock.
When we got back to camp the weather was still pretty nice. The campsite was higher in elevation so we had clouds traveling through our site and then one big thunderstorm that brought in hail and rain and winds that we just were hoping would stop. After about 15 minutes or so it did and we were thankful.
Monday was everyones last day at camp. James and I were going to stay another night with mom and dad, but we all decided to just pack up and leave. Mom and Dad came up to Ephraim with us and stayed the night here and then left on Tuesday.
All in all the camping trip was fun. Emjae sure loved it. She just enjoyed being outside and taking people for walks around the camp site (literally she would grab someone by the finger and start taking them were she wanted).

We are hoping to go camping again. I just hope Im not pregnant next time.