Our 4th of July Family Fun!!

Ok, I sure do hope your 4th of July celebration was fun! Ours was absolutely great! We took a short trip to the mountains nearby and did some camping. It was semi-primitive camping. We put up our tent and got the cooking area settled. You know I have to have a cooking area and it must be orderly. I like it all laid out and a nice pretty table cloth over the cooking table. We then hung lights all around (we brought an extension cord to run some electric for the lights). You know the white Christmas lights? We hung them from the trees and it looked so nice. Everything was lit up softly so that we could see where we were walking. We got all settled in and made a fire. Of course, we brought marshmallows, Hershey's chocolate and graham crackers...for s'mores!! Yea!! We love those. We had roasted hotdogs, pasta salad, and grilled chicken too. We brought lots of veggies and even cereal for breakfast. We had a cooler packed full of yummies! We brought sparklers for the kids to play with and they loved that. Even the 'BIG' kids had fun. They ran around with them and chased the lights that it made. Since it was a state park, no fire works were aloud. But that was ok. We don't usually use loud firecrackers anyway. Since we stayed several days we had the time to do some hiking. We packed a lunch in the cooler and made sure we had lots of drinks for everyone. We went into the mountains. We found a river bed that was dried out and the kids decided to go down into it. It really looked rocky to me. They went so far ahead that we (Grant and I) couldn't find them. We looked and looked and finally we saw them on top of this HUGE rock! Sitting on the top of it--with Autumn, our little Miniature Pinscher. She was a whiz at climbing all those rocks and finding things in there. More coming shortly about our little trip...