It's crazy the summer was almost over yet we hadn't been camping as a family once....but Nate had been camping 2/3 of the summer due to fire fighting and scout camp! Now it was our turn!! So we headed a few hours away to the beautiful Ashley National Forest: Flaming Gorge! What an awesome place to visit!
The kids were super excited to go camping! They just love it!
And what a beautiful place with ponds, lakes, and rivers!
We went on an awesome hike right along the river. We sat on this rock and watched all the rafts float by!
We couldn't quite take a picture looking into the sun!! But we tried!
Some of the cool things about this hike was seeing fish swim in the river, and also watching the fisherman in their boats, and all the rafts float by! We wish we were on one of the river rafts! It looked like fun! Next time for sure!
We even saw two deer swimming across the river! I didn't know deer could swim!
The hike went along the board walk.
The kids were so excited to wade their feet in the water! Boy was it cold!
Ty was super sweet helping Mara through the water!
Ty was so cute helping Caleb in the water...that is until he accidentally gave him a little push and he fell in!
Carder loved putting his feet in the cold water! He thought this was great fun!
Caluba with his shirt off!! He was trying to dry out after falling in the river!
Here is Flaming Gorge!! We went on a tour of the dam!
Speaking of dams here is the whole fam-dam!! Yay! The tour of the dam was actually really awesome! We rode an elevator all the way down to the bottom of the the dam and fed fish in the river.
We saw lots of great wildlife: big horn sheep, deer, antelope, marmots, moose...we saw lots of animals!
If you ask the kids what their favorite part of the trip was they will probably say: the paddle boats!! (*Except Carder! He hated it! He liked the boat but hated his life jacket so he cried most of the time and wanted to jump out!)
We each had a bag of food to feed the fish and ducks! As soon as we threw the food in the water the ducks came a swimmin'!!
We went at sunset and the clouds were magnificent! What a beautiful night!
Da boyz!! They loved paddling their boats around!
So pretty! We went fishing off the boat dock at sunset and watched the sun go down!
Deer eating bird food?! Ya, that was kind of crazy!
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