On our trip home from camping with my cousins it was getting late and we thought we were going to make it to the next town for dinner. Well, on our way one child said I have to use the restroom and she wasn't giving us much time. So we stopped at the next place that happened to be a boat ramp with restrooms. When we stopped guess who was hungry Lilly so I started nursing her. When Kyle realized we were going to be there a while he decided to cook dinner. So took out his jet boil (a small camping stove for back packing). It started up and only lasted a couple of minutes due to no fuel. So then he decided to get out the Coleman camping stove and that didn't work because we had nothing to lite it with. So he remembered learning in scouts how to cook food on your engine.(see scouts is a good thing) Since we were having hot dogs and they are cooked already you are mostly heating them up he decided to try it. He put the hot dogs in foil and put them under the hood. In the mean time I changed the baby feed her some more took the other kids to the bathroom. We were now waiting for the food. So we decide to check out a park that we saw a sign for near by. So he closed the hood and we went for a drive while cooking are food. We saw a beautiful sunset. We ended up at this neat park where you can camp. It was getting dark fast so we got out our flash lights and ate are yummy dinner right out of the engine.
This weekend we had the opportunity to go camping with my cousins and their children.
It was so much fun and my kids love to play with their second cousins. My cousin Spring set it up with her Dad and his wife and invited us along too. We ended up going to Mt. Saint Helen's. We went to the Ape Caves where we went last year. The kids loved it again as always.
We then went back to camp and had a smoked salmon tasting adventure. My cousin's Dad smoked a whole bunch of salmon a lot of different ways. We were able to try 8 different kinds and give them our best scores ranging from 1 to 10. I decided I am not that good at this I ended up with like 5 8's and a couple of 4's. After they were all tried numbers 8 and 5 won out. So next time Robert can make a lot of the one that was liked the best. It was all pretty yummy! Thanks Robert.(Uncle Butch)
My Cousins who we camped with were Spring and Harmony they are sisters. They all live in Oregon. Harmony has 2 kids one a month older then Miley and One 10 days younger then Belle. They all got along so well. They played and made forts around our tents. They made a sling shot out of a tree. The funny part was they went around finding cool rocks and then was selling them to us all for a quarter each. It was creative and we are all suckers. I think they each ended up with about a dollar. Belle and Cameron found a rock that broke in half so they each took a half home with them. They called it their friendship rock. It was so cute.
Spring is my favorite cousin we are about a year apart but, we were in the same grade. We were pretty much together all the time when we were together. It was hard since I lived here and she lived in Ashland, Oregon. So we only saw each other about 1 to 2 times a year. So being able to see each other 2 times in one month has been great. The best thing now is she has her little Sailor. She is so cute and we hope that Lilly and Sailor will be just as close.
Spring, Harmony, Dan and kids left in the afternoon to go home. We decided to drive up the mountain and see spirit lake. It was so cool to see the destruction of what a volcano can do in a matter of minutes. They still had tress standing burnt but you can now see the new growth and it is fabulous. We drove up to windy ridge and climbed the stairs to the top. It was windy but really nice. Robert and Emiko went too. It was neat we would stop and some places and they would soon be there too. It was a fun day!!
After a full afternoon at the park on Whidbey Island we found our way to Fort Casey in pursuit of adventure. We went and toured the Light house. Played in the bunkers and enjoyed the wonderful weather. We then left and went searching for the ferry. The ferry heading to the peninsula wasn't leaving for like 6 hours because the others were already full. So we took the Mukiteo Ferry and then went to the Southworth ferry and came home. It was a nice end to our week at Whistler.
We decided to look for a park and have some lunch. We enjoyed lounging watching the kids play. It was right on the water and had a fantastic View
I was checking one of my friends blogs that I actually use to babysit. Talk about make me feel old. She is now married and going to school she was talking about this cool blog with ideas for date night. So I checked it out and it is awesome. So I thought I would share it with all of you. Just click on the icon below.
One day the 2 younger girls had stayed the night with my parents. They then went up the mountain on the gondola with my Dad and Chelsea. They rode the new Gondola peak to peak lift. It goes between Blackcomb and Whistler mountains. At the lowest point between both peaks you are 10 statue of liberties from the ground. The girls and my Dad said it was a a lot of fun. I found these pictures of the gondola online during the winter but it shows you what it was like.
