Camping near Featherville, ID with the Browers

This picture cracks me up. No, Justin is not sending a text, he's taking a picture.

Lindsay and Bailey were prefectly content riding around and around and around the campground on the 4-wheelers.

Dennis and Rachel (hiding behind Aubrey)

Tyler was dying to be one of th big kids and really wanted to ride the motorcycle. It was a little big for him and Dennis was a bit worried that he was a bit young but in less than 5 minutes he had it down and rode all over the place. What a go-getter!

The Browers had rigged up this bathroom with a tarp and an old bedside commode. This is Justin using the facilities with the door (aka tarp) open.

And he emerges with his riding gear still on!

JJ taught Lindsay how to drive the 4-wheeler and she loved every second of it!

The kids and I were walking down the their "beach" to see what they'd been up to and as we got closer we realized that the sheep hearders in the area had tied up their horses right at the spot where you can get to the river. The horses were tied up but the donkeys were not. When we got closer to them the donkeys came up the bank and stood like this on the trail. I thought it was interesting how they stood blocking the road. I guess that must be part of their job.

Looking across the river you can see some of the ga-zillion sheep that had.

Sage, Savannah and Paige were practically inseparable the whole weekend.

The kids spent lots of time catching these teeny tiny fish out of the creek.

My Sagie

It was so hot and the water was the perfect temperature to cool off in. Looking back it was a little dumb to walk in the river with our camera but I got some cool pictures. Too bad we didn't remember our fishing poles or we would have spent a lot more time playing in the water. When we got home JJ put them in the trailer so we wouldn't forget!

My girls are just so darling...especially when Lindsay's in a funk.

My girls...Take 2. We only got a partial smile out of LouLou.

The sheep fought their way to the water.

This was only a small portion of them. There were TONS!!

I think that one was looking at me!

My darling Sage and her favorite pose

Our campfire

The girls were roasting marshmallows and Starbursts.

Savannah packed away more marshmallows that I ever thought humanly possible. On Friday night she ate a whole bag and on Saturday she stopped at 21.

My hunky.

Me and Bug (notice I'm not even wearing scrubs...Go Mom!)

Dennis, Aubrey and Justin (wearing his mama's shirt)

We had a really great time even though it was so hot. It was nice to get away from town for a while and we all enjoyed riding on the Brower's 4-wheelers, especially Lindsay. That would be a very fun investment. JJ and I went on quite the ride with Dennis and Rachel. We probably road about 20 miles but the view was awesome. I forgot to take my camera but Rachel took a picture of JJ and I overlooking a really beautiful valley. When she sends it to me I'll post it too!

I have a really cool video of the sheep actually crossing the river but I'm having a hard time getting it to upload (it's a big file). I'll keep working on it and hopefully I can get it to work.

This was our first trip away in the tent trailer and even though I thought we'd never make it driving between Boise and Mt. Home on the freeway we had a great time. I learned how to drive with a trailer, which is something I've never done, and I even drove the whole way home. JJ was very patient with me even though I probably drove him completely batty. I am very neurotic when it comes to freeway driving without a trailer, so you can imagine how nervous I was with, but he didn't say a word and was very patient with me. It was good training for next weekend when we head to our family reunion in Eastern Idaho.