This year's family campout was held on the Mogillon Rim near Woods Canyon Lake from July 11th until July 13th. Our family was able to get to the campground around 5:30pm. The campground was a busy place. Each camp site was full, no vacancies. Thank goodness David came up early to reserve all of the sites for our big family. The strange thing about where we were camped out on the Rim was the fog. Even at 6PM it was foggy. The clouds were very low. At one in the morning when I got up to go the the luxurious out-house, it was so foggy, my little lantern barely could shine 3 feet in front of me. It was very spooky. So I made Brent get out of bed and walk with me. He is so wonderful!
Mitchell and Grant took off as soon as we got to the campsite to start exploring. Their cousins were right there with them. They decided to build a "boys" fort with all of the logs they found in the forest. Grant and Mitchell had fun using the hatchet, and most of the time they were careful with it. :) On Saturday, Camber was upset that it was a "boys fort." So we changed the name to the "cousins fort" and they had to let her come and play too. Another exciting thing they did with all of the wood in the forest was to find worms or grubs. Mitchell would chip away at the dead wood and Joseph, Joshua and Colby would find the grubs hiding in the wood. They collected the disgusting critters and put them in an empty water bottle to be used for fishing. Yum! This kept them busy for hours.
We knew that camping on the Rim brought some risk. We all expected it to rain, you know, a nice afternoon shower. Well, instead of that we ended up with a huge rain storm. Everything got wet. Most of us took shelter in our vehicles because the tarps and tents weren't keeping out the torrential rain. Even after the down pour let up, it rained and sprinkled all the way through the next day. Kind of put a "damper" on some of the excitement. The boys learned how to dry out wood so it could burn. You can see the puddles on the other side of the fire as well as Daniel packing up his tent. His tent seemed to have gotten extra wet, so him and his family went home a day early.
Our tent ended up getting water in it too. But Brent managed to get all of the important stuff off of the floor so we could still be dry and warm at night. When we got home the next day, we were so lucky to unpack all of the camping supplies and wash off all of the layers of mud. Not a fun thing to do!
Despite the rain, Joe challenged Mitchell and Grant to a peach cobbler bake off. The goal was to see who could make the better cobbler. Grant had the smaller cobbler and so his was done first. He had a very nice cake layer and it tasted pretty good despite the extra butter and peach juice he snuck in. Mitchell, on the other hand, didn't follow directions and mixed all of the ingredients together. So his cobbler was more of a mush of stuff. However, it still tasted good. We will have to try it again next year. Thanks Joe for bringing all of the supplies. We all loved eating the cobbler no matter how it looked!
3 comments:
Thats the last thing that I wanted to hear, that it is raining alot in the mountains. We are heading to our family reunion next week, and we are camping. Yea! Alyssa
The cobblers were great, they can bake like their Mommy! I'm so glad the boys were able to come,, they are so much fun, and great babysitters!
I am so sad I didn't make it but am very glad Robby is out of my tummy. I can't wait till next year. Hopefully I will be close enough to come. Who knows where we will be. I think that it is so cool that the boys collected grubs.
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