Our friends, the Skeens, invited us to go camping with them to Crystal Hot Springs and we immediately accepted.
The kids loved watching their camper go up and turn into this tent.
We went swimming. The water was so warm and perfect. Heidi and Hailey went on these slides a couple times. Cougar went with his dad once and then continued to go on them almost the entire time we were there. Brynlee did a back float, which totally impressed us because she does not love the water.
It was a beautiful place.
We had set up the tents when we first got there. Lacey loved playing peek-a-boo with the door flap.
We went to the Martin Harris Pageant. It was really neat. Lacey did not want to sit there at all. I spent most of the play up on the grass with her. The last few minutes it was really windy. I got back to my seat and took this picture as soon as it was over. Then it started to rain. We ran to our car. There was no intermission like the program said and we wondered if it was because they knew it was supposed to rain.
We slept fairly well. Lacey was held by me most of the night, but it wasn't too terrible. This was the girls' tent.
The boys had their own little tent. Cougar was a good helper putting up and taking down the tent.
They were nice enough to share some of their toys with our girls while we were there. The kids played great. Heidi is only a couple months older than Raymie, so everyone had a friend to play with. It was a great place to camp.
We got a group picture of us all before we went swimming again.
Cougar went on that slide over and over again. I couldn't tell when it was him coming down the slide exactly, but I could kind of tell when I saw the body coming around the last loop if it might be him. I was about to take a picture when this group of girls walked right in front of me and stood there and it just happened to be him who came out the slide. So I had him go one more time and it was the only time all day that he completely fell over. It made me laugh. Brynlee would not wear the wristband the first day, but she wore it this day and loved it. Lacey mostly played by the pool in the little bit of water there. She was sitting there and then she stood up. Right there. Without pulling up on anything. It was one of those times where I really wish I had my camera (or had one attached to my head).
They wanted to try out the other little pools before we left. The minerals make the pools that bronze color.
We drove through Brigham City to find some food and saw the temple while sitting at a light, but then we decided to go to a place in Ogden. We ate at Ligori's and it was pretty good. The kids all got suckers from the waitress. Skeen's mom paid for us all, which was so nice of her. It was such a great way to spend our last weekend before school started.
That Monday we were invited to tube down the river with some neighborhood friends. They have a beautiful backyard.
It was a great way to celebrate the end of summer!
Cougar got to go to another friend's birthday party that day. He had fun at Kelan's pirate party. Apparently everyone in his church class has a birthday in the summer. I am not quite sure why he is holding his drill.
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