We went and visited our friend in Bend over 4th of July weekend. We stayed the first night at their house and then drove to Burns to go stay on the family ranch. We took the kids crawdad catching...
then settled in at the ranch! We camped out on the property, the kids stayed in a tent and us in a camper. All was well until about midnight on the 4th...we had a thunder, lightening and wind storm and it blew the tent over...we had to wake up all the kids and move them into the house! We built campfires and roasted marshmellow, and made smores of course!
The morning of the 4th we went and ate a yummy breakfast at the park with the Burns ward! Spencer made friends with some cows, the kids hiked and explored the hills that are all around!
The kids and the adults had a fun time riding horses for the first time!! Well not for the adults but for our kids anyway...and no I didn't get on a horse!! While watching everyone ride the horses we all got sunburnt pretty good!! OUCH!!!
Shule went and shot 22s with Dan and her brother...one of those marks on the boards are his! I can't remember which one!
We went to a family bbq and ate some yummy food and the kids did a gynormous slip'n slide...but I forgot the camera!! When it got dark we went to the family reservoir and did fireworks and watched everyone elses!!
Because we were on dirt roads and it's all family owned I thought it was fun for Spencer to drive home...he thought so too!!
Most of us came home with plenty of these...that's good old mosquito bites my friends...Shule counted 20 on 1 leg!!
Sunday we drove back to Bend and had a relaxing evening. Monday we went and explored the underground lava caves. It was cool. Spencer sure didn't like all the darkness down there. It's pitch black except for the light of your flashlight. Him and Emma didn't make it to the end so Shaye and I turned around and started heading back. Spencer refused to walk so I carried him the whole way back. What a workout!! He fell asleep half way through and made it that much harder to carry him over the rocky bottom of the caves! All in all it was good!
We had a fun weekend and can't wait to go back and visit again!!
3 comments:
great pic! Sounds and looks like you had a blast.. We sure got bitten too by the stupid misquito bugs...
That sounds like an awesome time! We have a good friend who is from Bend, she's now in Arizona. She was always telling stories about life in Bend though.
I'm glad you guys had such a great time!We have been to that cave before when Eli was little and I carried him the whole way too. Yikes on the mosquito bites!
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