That first morning with everyone, Dee and Julie had brought up the goods to make baggie omelets for breakfast. If you haven't made these, they're easy and virtually no mess. You crack your eggs and whatever you want into a baggie, mash it around a bit, then throw it in some boiling water. It cooks and voila, omelet!
Dee and I had done them many times before and never had an issue. This time though it was a total mess. The bags kept sticking to and thus melting from the heat on the pots. So we had to re-bag a few of them and only cook a coupe at a time, babysitting them so they wouldn't melt again. Somehow this job fell on me and Kelsea. It took forever to get them all cooked, and when we finally finished, feeling successful, we sat down to eat ours and of course I had Julie's 8 parts sausage 1 part egg "omelet". Sad. Luckily, Dee had brought some tortillas, so it was a little better as a burrito.
We all got dressed, loaded up and jumped in the cars to head to Lily Lake for some fishing.
It is so pretty at Lily. I would even say it's my favorite fishing spot up there. We parked a couple of the cars and the 4 wheeler trailer at the bottom of the dirt road. Kelsea and Julie took Jake and Coop up the road on the 4-wheelers and the rest of us all jumped in a truck to ride up.
I was so sad I missed getting a picture when I found out Coop had fallen asleep on Kelsea somewhere along the way. She said it was quite the balancing act with him stretched across her, and trying to keep him on and steer with only one hand. That boy is like his dad, if he's tired and gets the opportunity to sleep, he is out.
We hadn't been at Lily very long before Jake caught his very first fish. He was so excited, the pole grandpa had got him for his birthday worked! He had a decent sized very pretty rainbow trout. He didn't want to hold it, so we took a picture and tossed it back in. This was followed by several catches by everyone. Coop helped me reel one in and Jason got one while holding Emmett even. Grandpa wasn't catching anything, ha. There was a lot of banter about that. I even walked down and showed him a picture of Jake's fish so he could at least see what they looked like. He wasn't laughing as hard as the rest of us.
Eventually the kids got bored so Kelsea and I took them on a little 4 wheeler ride, and upon our return we found everyone loading up to head back.
The best part of camping is how fun it is to watch the kids entertain themselves with nothing but what they can find there. We brought some cards and things, but the majority of their time was spent exploring the meadow, adventuring in the trees, and playing in the dirt with sticks.
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| Not tired at all |
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| Gus found a squirrel friend |
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| Me: "Coop do you need a napkin?" Coop: "No, I just lick it off mom." Good luck... |
For dinner Dee made his oh so yummy dutch oven chicken and cheesy potatoes and we all stuffed ourselves sick, totally forgetting the caramel apple cake he had in another dutch oven for dessert.
After dinner was cleaned up we went to this little pond down the highway where the guys like to fish. There are just these little feeder fish in there, but they are so fun to catch and the scenery can't be beat, especially at sunset. Coop loved it here and decided to name his fish Rocky. He was pretty upset when we put "Rocky" back in the pond because he had planned on taking him home to live in our backyard.
We got back to our camp and once we had gathered around the fire we all found room for Dee's cake as we watched Kelsea pop Jiffy Pop with a 4 foot long stick.
All of the kids slept much better that night, thank heavens, and likewise, so did us parents.
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