Kanosh Camping trip... and Meadow hot pots!!

We went this last weekend on a quick camping trip up to Fish Lake National Forest. We started the trip with everything going great! Got in and set up quickly and ate dinner... didn't get to ride the first day but that was fine. I kept the night talking to a minimum (or at least didn't hear it this time) by putting in ear plugs and it's my understanding Cory didn't talk very much that first night but did A LOT of snoring! LOL
Second day we went on a super fun ride up the Paiute trail. It was nice and flat and is kept well maintained so it was a nice easy ride!
In the afternoon we went to Meadow and swam in the hot pots they have there! It was VERY cool! The first one we visited was REALLY yucky with all manner of funk floating in the water so I stayed out and took pics. The second one however was AWESOME! Clean, gorgeous and warm!! LOVED it!! Dillan had a blast cannon balling into it too! There were areas that weren't real deep and others that were so deep you couldn't see the bottom. If you ever go that way, it's definitely worth the stop! :)
That night, Matt decided to take the kids on a night ride... well let me clarify, he did not want to take the younger two with them because it was dark and they don't have the best headlights on their machines. But after much whining and crying and against his better judgement, he took all the kids. Dillan didn't want to drive his 4 wheeler so he rode with Cory on mine because I was ready to get the dirt off of me and didn't want to go... anywho, beside the point just giving the background as to how they ended up going. So they went up a trail above our camp that we had been seeing people drive up all day long to check it out. (Before I start this little tale a small disclaimer.. Tyson is fine!) So they are driving along and it's another well maintained trail until they get to a certain point where there is a big rock they had to drive over and the trail narrowed quite a bit. On one side there was a STEEP cliff (at least 30 feet down) and the other was the rock. So Matt is in front (as the "guide") Britt behind him, followed by Tyson and then lastly Cory and Dillan on my machine. Matt and Britt safely navigate the rock and get around and up the trail and stop to make sure Tyson and Cory get over it. They see Tyson pull up stop and then turn and drive off the cliff! Matt says a few choice words and drops his bike and runs! Britt dumps the clutch on her machine and jumps and runs as well. Cory who was behind him yelled a few choice words and bails his machine after making sure Dillan is good.. (Seriously can't blame either Matt or Cory!) At this point they can hear Tyson screaming seriously loud and Matt said his first thought was, "Well, he's alive at least!" He also said all he could see is the 4 wheeler flipping and flying down the cliff and could see the lights as it rotated through the air. So Matt goes to jump down the cliff after Ty and Cory (my 4-wheeler was shining light for him) shuts my machine off and so Matt now blind, falls down and smashes into a HUGE boulder with his hip. So, he yells for Cory to turn the lights back on and starts heading down the cliff yelling "TYSON, TYSON!" About then, Tyson comes hiking up and says "What?" Like nothing in the world just happened! LOL Matt asked him if he was o.k. and he said, "Yeah but my tummy hurts." (Can't imagine why! hehe) So none of us know how he managed to get away and off of the machine since they all saw him go down ON it but he did somehow! He doesn't remember at all and doesn't even remember screaming so we will probably never know. The front of his helmet was cracked and there was a scrape up the side of it but not one scratch on him! The 4 wheeler had something smashed on every side so I am VERY grateful for a watchful Heavenly Father who I think knows I would most likely not survive something horrible happening to my kids! We asked him why he drove off it and he said he thought that was where the trail went.
Anywho, it took Cory, Britt and Matt at least an hour to get it back out from where it fell. It took every tie down we owned hooked together. That night, I wore earplugs again so I could sleep but Matt said Cory was swearing and yelling all night.. Hmmm wonder what he was dreaming about... Probably the same things I was dreaming!
Matt spent a few minutes the next day putting things back together the best he could (He is seriously amazing he is!) and it was still driveable... (also NUTS!) We went on one last ride up the same "safe" trail (hehe) that we went the day before and had a blast! Neither of the two little boys wanted to drive anymore but I, (a mean mom for sure) made them because I did not want them to be scared every time we go riding in the future. Lesson learned.. NO NIGHT DRIVING with the little four wheelers! :) All in all a fun and yet somewhat traumatic trip! Here are the pics... I had a camera this time unlike the last time Ty drove off a cliff! Sorry there are ALOT of pics hope you don't get too bored!

White River Camping Trip

This was the first time in a while that we went camping with just our little family. We went up Spanish Fork Canyon to White River. It was PERFECT weather for camping! Just cold enough there were no bugs, which if you know me you know there are two things I hate... bugs and dirt! We always bring LOTS of water so I can indulge my washing freak outs to get rid of the dirt so it doesn't bother me when we camp! LOL Anywho, it rained just a teeny tiny bit but it was just enough to keep most of the dust down when we were riding. So that was perfect too!

There is a little section close to the road that the kids refer to as "the Hills" where, much to my hearts dislike, there was a little jump the kids were catching a little air off of. (I don't think I will EVER like the jumping that is bound to occur with kids on machines!) Tyson was the only one who didn't jump off of it. Thank goodness I have at least ONE who likes to keep things on the safe side! LOL Dillan's machine wasn't working just right so the poor kid ended up riding with Dad alot which he LOVED and I was glad too because it isn't always as fun when you can't drive your own machine. (Matt figured out later that there was a short in one of the wires and it was making the kill switch think it was pushed, if that makes sense.) Britt had a blister on one of her hands so she rode with me part of the time which Cory LOVED because that meant he could ride her four wheeler instead of his bike. (It takes a little less energy and skill to ride... I guess you could say it's a lazier way to ride which suits me just fine! LOL) Cory did say his bike hasn't ever run as good as it did up there though! :)

Our camping spot was the most perfect spot I think we have ever camped in.. just the right amount of tree cover to keep things comfortable when the sun was shining and plenty of places to hang things from the trees! The kids also found a HUGE pine tree that had a clubhouse of sorts under all the branches and had a BLAST playing under it.

We saw a Chipmunk (or as our family calls them Chickmunks) that we thought was choking on a plastic bag from Wal-mart but it turns out he was just trying to shove it into his cheeks! It was the funniest thing I ever saw! Well, funny once we decided he wasn't choking on it. We kept hearing this loud rustling in the bushes and decided to investigate and he was so involved in trying to pack the bag in his cheeks he actually let us get just a few feet away before he finally abandoned the bag and ran for it. Sorry didn't get any pictures of it though.

We always have eventful nights when we are all in the trailer! Cory and I both it seems, talk in our sleep. I only occasionally, Cory however is the NOISIEST sleeper I have ever heard! If he isn't talking, he sounds like he is over there chewing and eating something. LOL So the second night, Cory woke us up at about 2 a.m. when he yelled, "That's creepin' me out Britt!" Then later that night (about 4 a.m.) I was having a dream and I don't remember everything in my dream but I do remember there was a Hippo in a lake and it started chewing and making the same noises Cory does in his sleep so I started laughing in my dream and come to find out it wasn't silent laughter! I woke myself up I was laughing so hard! I even had tears streaming down my face and was shaking the air mattress! (poor Matthew!) So I apoligized to everyone, (who soon joined me in the laughing) and had to leave the trailer so I could get control of myself. It took me a good 20 minutes at least! LOL Anywho, YAAAY for an AWESOME camping trip! I didn't take a ton of pictures... I was having too much fun riding and playing... but here are the few I did take! Enjoy!

OH and BTW.. I now know why I haven't been able to upload pics... well at least I "think" I know.. LOL I have been trying to load files WAY over the 8MB limit.. can anyone tell me if they mean per picture or just all together?