The Anderson Family Campout..

Well, this was the last getaway of the Summer. Almost everyone was there in the family except my brother Dave and his family, who lives in Mesa and my brother Eric and his family couldn't make it either. We missed you guys! We had a great time, thanks Mom and Dad for planning it!

Here's our campsite! Fun stuff!!


We were able to borrow our friends four wheeler again! Thanks so much Dave and Lori!

The kids loved sitting in the back, though it made the mothers a little nervous!

Here's the swing that the kids spent a lot of time on!

We decided to head up the canyon for a quick ride after dinner of Friday night.

The next morning we headed back up the mountain. The night before we didn't make it to the top and we really wanted to see the top.

Here's Max and Clay! Max looks so cute in his shades!

ATV trouble... Nothing we couldn't handle!

We made it to the top, Skyline Drive! So pretty!


After our ride in the mountains we headed back down to a family reunion for my mom's side. It was great to see some friendly faces. We also went swimming and had a lot of fun!

Some of us left the reunion early to help Gary prepare our BIG dutch oven dinner we were going to have for dinner! We had roasts, chicken, potatos, carrots, rolls, cobbler, and ice cream! Everything was so yummy Gary, thanks a lot!


Jackson was pretty good to just hang out and play or he just wandered around the campsite to check things out!


I don't know what my Dad was doing, but whatever it was the boys sure thought it was interesting!

Jackson really had a good diet while we were there!!

We had a checkers tournament! I am happy to announce that Gary won!! I love a man that can play checkers!!

While we were playing checkers the kids tried and tried to get a game of ring toss going.. That dirt was just too hard to get the game set up.



I love this picture of Grace!!

Rise and Shine!! Mmmmm, breakfast!! We had great meals while we were down there!

Jackson has such great facial expressions!

Before we left some of us went for one last ATV ride. We came across this old cabin! We thought it was cool looking. We found a really old cast iron stove inside along with a lot of dust!! If walls could talk!!

After our ride we came back to camp to clean up and head home. It started pouring down rain... It rained the night before too, though it was a lot more fun when you're tucked snug away in your tent and sleeping bag. I love listening to the rain. Thank you Mother Nature! Notice Gary's wet shirt.. It was really coming down!


On our way out of town we stopped at my Mom's cousin's house, Marlow and Loretta Peterson.. Marlow has a HUGE collection of marbles that we all looked at! It was cool seeing all those marbles! The kids got to pick some out and bring them home, they loved that! Thank you Marlow and Loretta, it was great seeing you again!
Thanks again everyone for making this such a great camping trip! We will have to do it again.