Our Camping Trip...

We spent two nights at Milo McIver campground. Just a quick, fun trip for a get away moment. The kids argued, but for once... Dh and I didn't snap at each other once. I gotta say... having a trailer has made things so much easier on me. Here is Lucy, this morning, at the end of her first campout. She really liked the outdoors, the hikes, and the exploring in general.
And I couldn't miss a picture of "Dashy" too... who is training to not bark as often as he did during previous campouts. He is also catching onto his CONSISTANT training; teaching him that he doesn't need to mark every tree and surface along his outing pathways. I recently took him to the park, and we made it past every pole in the park, without a single marking. Alot of "aaahhh" and "Nooo Dash"... sniff... sniff... and "Dash Come". But, after near two weeks of solid training, he is back on my good side again :)
Here we have Jordan, trying to throw a rock across the Clackamas river. LOL
He is really good at skipping rocks, but the rocks here were not as flat as he preferred. Therefore more chucking them, and not skipping them :)

Friday night, Sean came up and dropped the trailer and us. He has to work Saturday, so he went home Friday late evening. Meghan and I got out the chalk to make a HUGE hopscotch. The boys joined us too.
Meghan is pointing to a rock that she decided looked like it has one eye, a nose, and a smiley face. She found a few rocks with faces. Jarod and I later had a conversation at the campfire, discussing what the logs to shape into. We saw goldfish and seashells... etc. Fun times! Reminds me of laying in the backyard as a kid, and looking at cloud shapes.
I tried to get Jarod to pose for me, but he was too busy chattering away to sit still for long. He talks a mile-a-minute lately. Drives me nuts!! He is always singing or chattering so tune or poem, etc. Normally something to bug his brother and sister. It is definitely something I will want to remember, but not today.
The hills climbing to get down by the river was fun. Jarod was a little nervous and I had to repremand Jordan a few times that we don't JUMP done the cliff. Meghan was the one that had both nerves to try something new, but nerves to hang on with her hands too. Jordan has his hands behind his back here after saying "I can climb this without hands". Ugh!!
This old log was fun for the kids to turn into a balance beam. Meghan got upset just after this photo, because she was tipping in this one and needed to take another photo that made her look better. Oh jeez!! LOL