Thursday night we packed up and headed out of town for the weekend. It was a great way to kick off the start of summer vacation! Kennedy was missing the last day of school on Friday but its not like they do anything but run wild anyways. She was super excited to head to East Canyon. Its one of her favorite places to go. She had her kids buckled in and was ready.
One great thing about ECR is that my parents know almost everyone there. Our good archery friends and their family were parked right across from us. My parents and Phil were just up from us, Todd and Jana were just across the ways, my parents neighbors were just down the road from us. We were all in the same little loop. Kennedy rode her scooter for hours around the loop stopping and visiting with everyone she knew.
We had a nice spot with the river and walking trail right behind us.
Mom had her humming bird feeder out and they were swarming in like crazy. This one had the coolest fuchsia neck!
Friday morning Todd, Dad and I took the boat out and went fishing on East Canyon. Mom and Dad had been fishing it all week and had done pretty good.
I almost caught the first fish.. I had one hooked on the line and it was a fighter. I got it right to the end of the boat and it spin and spit the hook and was gone. Not much later Todd got the official first fish in the boat
After a while of not getting anything else while anchored Dad trolled us around the lake. It was so cold and windy! We were freezing. Dad got one almost to the boat and it spun and spit the hook out too.
Todd caught one more fish and that was it. Fishing was pretty slow. We were cold and nothing was biting so we headed for the boat ramp. The skies turned nice and bright blue and sunny.. and then it started raining on us.
We headed back to camp and had lunch. The skies stayed blue. I promised Kennedy we would go swimming this weekend but who would have thought in the first week of June it wouldnt be warm enough!? She worked on catching humming birds instead.
Friday night Todd and Jana made a dutch oven roast and cheesy potatoes and then we headed into Ogden to the Dee Events Center. Chris's cousin Jess was graduating from High School.
These girls watched movies and sat on my lap while we were waiting for her to walk across.
Finally it was her turn! Congrats Jess!
We headed back to camp and got there just after 10.
Saturday morning Mom and Dad had to go to a work party for their hunting hours. Me, Chris, Kennedy, Todd and Jana went into Park City to hit some yard sales and go to Walmart. There is a cut off road that takes you down Jeremy Ranch Road and past Mormon flats into Park City and it takes about 15 minutes from ECR. The yard sales sucked. No one had anything decent however we did find Kennedy some books for the summer. She has been loving the Goosebumps and Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. I told her I would work on finding her some Babysitter Club ones also. I used to have the whole collection of Goosebumps and Baby sitter club when I was younger.
The nice thing about ECR is we have full hook ups and cable. So we had some lunch and watched a little tv
Elysha, Parker, Macee and Tyler showed up not long after we got back. It was Parkers 7th birthday. We bought him a little skateboard. This is Kennedys new bff for the weekend Bella. Her parents were camped just down from my parents and these girls were inseparable.
The girls went and rode their scooters and Parker skateboarded with them.
MaceeMoo wanted to try out her brothers new skateboard
The weather finally warmed up some. Elysha wanted to got to the pool and we were headed fishing. We dropped Kennedy off with her because really pool time wins in her book
Chris, Todd, Jana, Phil and I went to the shore to fish. The weather was nice at camp.. a whole 1 minute away but the shore was SO windy. It was horrible. Trying to cast it just blew your line back
There were no fish biting. The wind was awful so we packed up after about an hour and headed back
Jana and I had thrown the ribs and chicken in the smoker for Dad before we left to go fishing and they were ready after we took a little nap and of course once the horse race was over too. We had smoked ribs, smoked chicken and pasta salad for Parkers birthday.
Since it was his birthday he went around the circle and told everyone he needed his birthday spankings
Then he wanted a turn trying to catch humming birds. He had two land on his hands for a second.
It was getting windy so we had to block his candle with the trailer and door. We had great cake and ice cream.
Moo loved it!
Then it was time for washers. Chris and I were on fire!
and Macee wanted a nap
The wind and a horrible rain, lightening, thunder storm rolled in and was there for the rest of the night. Chris has Kennedy convinced that thunder is God bowling and when he gets a strike lightening happens. The next morning the skies were clear and the water was great. Todd, Jana, Dad, Phil and I went out shore fishing for a few hours. The weather and conditions were perfect for fishing.. and we didnt get a single bite!! Not one of us...or the boats out on the water or the people across the shore from us. The fishing sure sucked this weekend but its still better than being at work!
Kennedy and Bella were sad they had to say goodbye. Hopefully we will run into her another time.
We loaded all the trailers and trucks and our convoy headed home! Another fun family vacation in the books!
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