2012 Camping Trip to Parkcreek Campground

Family camping this year was held from August 4-9 at Park Creek Campground which is about 20 miles from Sun Valley, Idaho.  We basically had the campground to just our family for the major portion of the time that we were there.  It started out with us packing not only the truck this year, but also travis's utility trailer.  So much for going light!  Tracy, Jaxon and Abby rode over with us and then Tyler joined us on Wednesday.  Tanner and Chelsey followed in their car.

 

Troy, Laura, Steve and Nicole left the day before from Seattle and got there about the same time as us. Tyler and Dakota came up on Saturday nd stayed until Tuesday evening. Travis and Ryann came up on Sunday and Tenille and Grant's family came up on Monday evening. 

 

 It was wonderful having everyone at camp with us this year.  We did not plan a lot of activities except for the men going on an overnighter to Kane Lake.  We did a lot of day hikes, riding bikes, wading in the creek, EATING food morning, noon, night and just enjoying each other's company.  The first day was a little scary with Abby getting locked in the bathroom, but that's all it took and no one else tried it again. 

 

We had perfect weather - no rain, wind or bugs.  We did have some smoke from all of the wildfires that were burning around us.  The only other incident that we had was Tyler hurting his leg while coming back from the hike, but Tanner took him into Sun Valley were he got about 10 stitches in the front of his leg.  It looked like it really hurt.  Next year we will bring some coban and lots of gauze bandages.  Thanks to Grant who took all of the right first aid stuff.  This year was a challenge with having 5 babies under the age of 1 year, but we seemed to manage.  Everyone knew that it was expected that you would always be holding someone's baby and sometimes 2 babies depending on who was getting feed at any given time.  If you weren't holding a baby than you were cooking a meal or doing clean-up.

 

Overall it was a wonderful camping experience - I have tried to share some of my favorite photos.  I will post more later.

 

The twins the day we left - they were so clean!

 

 Travis's loaded utility trailer.

 Dennis's loaded Truck.

 Abby and Jack playing with ropes that they found.  They tied each other to the tree.  I know that a couple of parents had thought of the idea, but it was much better that the 4 years do it on their own.

 Collin just loved the exercisers that Chelsey brought for them to play in.

 Jaxon was the mechanic of the camp.  I think he wrapped that change around the post at least 10 times.

 Like I said, everyone always had a baby including Alyssa, holding Kylee.

 This was everyone crossing the creek to go on one of our day hikes.

 This deer would frequent our campsite almost daily.  I actually thought this was a pretty good photo.

 This was the oldest and the youngest of my children discussing college education funds??

 Jaxon was bound and determined to get a drink, no matter how wet he got.

 Yes, we can't go camping without a little of this going on.

 Oh, Lizzie loves kisses from Momma!

 Dakota and Tyler kept the kids busy for hours on the 4-wheelers.  They were actually a lot of fun.  However, Dennis did convince me to ride on one up the road with him, which was a lot of fun until he almost tipped it over.

Ah, this is my favorite photo with all three babies laying down and getting a little extra luv'in from their cousins!  It doesn't get any better than this.