Camping at Hermit Park

This last weekend we had our 3rd annual family camping trip to Hermit Park.  The kids absolutely love going there and they ask for it all year long!  We had a great time!  Douglas and I got a lot of practice using the dutch ovens, which was a lot of fun.  We made chili and cornbread and blueberry cobbler the first night, then a yummy breakfast with hashbrowns, eggs, sausage, and cheese.  Then for dinner the next night we did a potatoes and ham dinner with peach cobbler.  So yummy!  Then of course we had to do banana boats and smores, because it's just not a proper camping trip without those!  Brandon was our little fire bug who made sure the fire never died out on us.  Katie was terrified to go poop in the porta-potty for some reason but she eventually had to get over it.  Emily got strep a few days before we went so I was glad she was feeling better by the time we left so she could enjoy it. 

We got home Sunday afternoon and seriously like five minutes after we got home we got a horrible hail storm at our house.  The kids thought it was awesome and they ran out to fill cups with hail balls to keep in the freezer when it was over.  Our poor garden didn't do too well though...oh well.  It hailed for almost 20 minutes and the hail was about an inch in diameter.  Our fence is covered in dents from the hail so it was hitting pretty hard.

Our next adventure will be school starting in less than two weeks!  I can't believe two of my three are already in school.  We still have a couple of fun things we want to try to get done before school starts like maybe a trip to Elitches but we'll see if it happens.  There's still a lot to get done before school starts and the girls start dance classes right around that same time.  Brandon is signed up for fall soccer too so we are jumping right back into everything!  Never a dull moment around here!