Thursday, September 16, 2010

Camping over Labor Day

We arrived at Springy Point campground pretty late Friday evening and this beautiful sunset greeted us. And just to show you what can happen when you play with the settings on your camera, I got this a minute later...
Anyway, this isn't my photography blog anymore so let's get on with the rest of the weekend...
I love how Reese looks crazy in this picture! He was doubled up on jammies so we had to squeeze his little feet into his sandals.
On Saturday, we tried out the fish hatchery which turned out to be really lame. There wasn't any fish and it was under construction but the boys were still pretty excited about it.
(Ryan is striking his "Junior Muscle Magazine" pose)
 After that, we headed over to Round Lake where we found a lot of these little guys.
Carson didn't want to touch it at first but Reese didn't hesitate picking him up and terrorizing Carson with it.
But then he warmed up a little bit.
Then the boys jumped in a raft and went out to find some frogs in the lilies.
 Then we went on a hike around the lake.
These boys walked the entire two miles!
 We found this tree that had fallen over and the roots made this cool little cave.
Towards the end of the hike there was this HUGE anthill! There were ants everywhere! It was taller than Carson!
On our way out we found this one:
 After that, we headed back to camp, had some dinner and then I wanted to head out for shooting and came back with these:

Of course I did spend the majority of the vacation like this
On Sunday, we went on other hike but this wasn't a leisurely stroll around a lake. This was like a treacherous HIKE, especially with the chillins.
But we found the waterfall and there was wild salmon!
We made it back to camp all in one piece. We were planning on staying another night but it was supposed to get really cold and it was starting to rain so we called it quits and headed home. 

Funny story, when we found the little pond at the bottom of the waterfall, Carson was dancing around because he had to pee. So we told him to go pee on the rock. Reese was watching and listening and decided he needed to pee too so he went over to where Carson was standing and lifted his shirt and stood there like he was peeing!
He just looked at us like "am I doing it right?" It was hilarious!

Ryan is getting the photography bug. He filled up my 8GB memory card on the hike around the lake! I'm not sure which ones I took and which ones he took but here's some that I like...





We had a surprisingly good time camping. We might even do it again sometime!

7 comments:

Melissa said...

Great shots Crandizzles.
I love the one of the sunset and Carson in the cave and cute little Reese in the rear view mirror.

Becca Bingham said...

That looks like a great place to go camping. I'll have to find out where it is! I loved the fact that Carson was more afraid of the bug and Reese teased him about it. :)

Jon and Kari-Lynn Tarleton said...

so fun and pretty too. um, of course we would LOVE visitors. we have an extra bedroom, your welcome anytime...before june of course:)

Sarah Ruth Ritchie said...

Jenny, you are getting soooo good with photography. Where did you learn everything? You are seriously inspiring me!!!! How did you do it? I know everyone has their own touch but how did you learn all your tricks?

Ashley said...

looks like a lot of fun! and those potatoes were huge! What a unique outing :)

Starlie and Nate Schmutz said...

okay since we live so close to each other we have got to meet somewhere and do a camping trip sometime! We would love that!

Tiffany Giraud said...

What a fun trip! I also like the picture of Reese teasing Carson with the caterpillar.:) Looks like a beautiful place to spend a camping trip.