Sorry about the graphic photo's, maybe my blog should be pg-13. Steve had come back to camp to get the 3 wheeler to help him get the deer out and he took Trenton back with him and let Trenton drive the deer out. Trenton thought that was pretty cool.
This is what short people have to do to skin their kills. =)
Steve's brother Jeromy that helped Steve locate the deer.
Jeromy killed a cow elk the first day we were there. It doesn't look like much here, but it was huge. It took us 6 hours to cut up - I think I was crying the whole time, it was just an impossible feat, and yet we did it!!!
Steve's mom and dad Floyd and Yvonne - Grammy and Papa
This is Jeromy's turtle, but Yvonne takes care of it most of the time, so she thought she would bring it to the mountains and give it a new home. When Jeromy got up there and saw the turtle he said, "You're not going to leave my turtle up here are you?" Sheepishly, Yvonne answers, "No." These people just crack me up all the time. So anyway we had a pet turtle with us on the trip - the kids thought it was great! Sorry if I spilled the beans Yvonne, it was just too funny, I had to share. =) hee hee hee!
Yvonne had her camera on us the whole time - right back atcha!
Our good friends the Robinsons came up on Saturday and stayed until we went home. We had a lot of fun with them. Ralph was especially happy to see his girlfriend.
Just some pretty scenery at the Canyon Rim.
Again, at the Canyon Rim.
Okay, here's a funny story. Me and Wendi and all the kids went for a walk on Monday. Well, on our walk Britney started to complain that her pants were rubbing the inside of her thighs really bad. She had never wore these pants before. So I sympathized, but there wasn't anything I could do, we were far from camp. So the more we walked, the more she started walking funny, an I really felt bad for her. Well, she had this sweatshirt tied around her waist in case she got cold, so we took the sweatshirt and I had her step through the neck hole and I pulled it up over her pants so she is wearing it like a skirt, then we pulled her pants off. She was so grateful. She even named this wonderful look as the "squirt". Good thing she's so skinny so the neck of the thing would fit around her waist.
This is down by Red Canyon Visitor's Center, take note of Britney's squirt. =)
The kids played Rainbow tag the first day they were all together. Basically, you paint yourself. Lovely don't you think?
Saturday before the Robinson's came up, me and the kids went hunting with Steve. We were out the door at 6:30 that morning - very cold. It was so nice to hike all morning. The mountains are so beautiful in the morning light. We came upon a herd of elk, but I think Steve actually scared them away with his cow call - it was too loud. But hey, we saw them. This is us having a snack.
On Tuesday, the guys took off from hunting for a while and went fishing with us. The problem was....the wind kicked up and it was blowing really hard. Of course Floyd caught fish, Floyd always catches fish. Floyd could tie a brick to his line and he would catch a fish. So we kept 3 of the fish that Floyd caught, because I really wanted to eat fish.
The girls went across the pond with Grammy to get out of the wind.
This is Trenton's very first time gutting fish - his dad was so proud. If you can enlarge that yellow sign on the post next to him you will get a good laugh. =)
These goats would visit us in camp - made Ralph crazy.
We walked up to the duck pond on Thursday. It was very cold, but I had to get out of camp. I can't stand being in the mountains and being cooped up. Wednesday is when it stormed all day, so we basically stayed in the trailer's and played games and did crafts, but I couldn't do it another day. So I said bundle up, we're going for a walk.
Everyone tried out the 3 wheeler on the last day. This is Brett Robinson and his little girl Brenae.
Meghan and Britney
Coby and Trenton
Coby and Brenae
And here we are, the happy family. We had a great time and as always had a very hard time leaving.
