Our time at Fishhook - Camping

We had a great time camping this year at Fishhook. Usually Pam's whole family goes with us, but this year she had a surgery and after only a week of recovery, didn't feel up to going.   I was super bummed, but I remember how much I hurt after my surgery.  Yuck!  So Jeremy brought his friend, Max, and we had 2 of Pam's kids come anyhow, Devin and Rachel.  There were 8 of us all together.
We drove up on Wed afternoon and put up the tents while Mike was still at work.  I was way impressed with myself.  With just a little help from Briggy, we put up my tent faster than those three boys put up theirs.  Silly boys!  It's because they can't read directions you know.
We only forgot a few things and were happy that dad was still coming up later so he could help us out.  We did forget forks for our tin foil dinners, but Max, being the super outgoing guy that he is, wrangled us up some forks from another camping group.  Max was awesome.
Grama Anderson came up on Friday and hung out with us all day.  We had a Boat Club boat on both Thursday and Friday so we had a great time on the water.  Thursday was a little windy, but still most of the people got in the water (not me, someone needs to man the camera!)  Friday was perfect.  There was tubing and wakeboarding.  Here is some video for your viewing pleasure!

4th of July

So we spent the 4th relaxing and visiting friends.  At 2 we went to see Jared Peterson who just returned from his mission.  He was having a little backyard get together.  It was good to talk with him and his dad, Jay.  After sitting with the big people for a while, Brigam was bored and asked if he could swing on the swing set.  Of course!  So he and another girl started swinging along on the Costco, wooden swingset.  Pretty soon we hear a loud crack and as I look over, I see Brigam who looks like he is pinned under this metal beam that was hold the swings up.  The whole thing broke and the kids both fell to the ground.  I think the beam did hit him in the head, but with the way it landed and was still attached to another piece of support, it probably hit pretty softly considaring the size of the whole thing.  Shortly after that we high-tailed it out of there since Brigam had "brought the roof down", we assumed our work there was done.

After a good, 4th of July nap, we headed down to Pam's where we BBQ'd with their family and the Jensens.  Mike spent "the best $5.00 he ever spent" on dry ice and proceeded to make dry ice bombs.  Their poor dog, Zack, thought the world was about to end and was DYING to get in the house.  That was funny.  Here's some video of our epic night:

After that, we just stayed at Pam's as she moved into a new house and the previous owners said you could see all the fireworks from their house.  You could see them if you were in the middle of their street, looking though the neighbor's side yard, and cocking your head to the side.  But we did see them.  We couldn't hear them too well.  I told her next time we are going down to the river!  :)