Our Last Hurrah!

This weekend, with Darrell in California again at fire camp, my friend Kapka and I, packed up, gathered the boys, and headed to the mountains. This time we decided to try out Warm Lake. I had been there 4 or 5 years ago with the young women and have wanted to go back. It was so beautiful there, although you can see how devastating the forest fires were last year! We got up there early evening, set up camp, and still had time to play at the beach for a while before dark.



After some fun at the beach, we headed back to the campsite for dinner. My boys are little fire bugs and spent most of their time standing around the fire either adding wood or poking at it. We didn't have to worry about being too cold, they kept the fire going nice and hot! After a long, cool night, once again the fire was going strong and kept that way until we had camp taken down! It took several buckets of water to finally put it out, that is how big it was!! When the boys weren't poking at the fire, they were off gathering more wood to keep it going. Finally around noon, we were ready to head back to the lake where we spent the afternoon, fishing, swimming, and climbing rocks. The boys even found a rope swing, which they absolutely loved!







When it was finally time to head home, we were all worn out! About half of us slept at least some of the way home. When we were all cleaned up and unpacked, guess what the boys wanted to do? Go swimming! Apparently all afternoon just wasn't enough for them. So we dropped Matthew off at the Stake Dance (he had other things on his mind!) and headed for Kapka's pool for a moonlight dip. It was a great weekend! And to top it off -- ALL the boys slept until after 8am this morning! That is a rare treat!!!