Spencer's First Camping Trip

So this weekend Spencer and I (Tyler) went on Spencer's first camping trip. It was my parent's ward's campout up in park city. So Todd, me, Ally and Spencer packed up the car on Friday morning and headed out to the campsite. This is Spencer and Ally's excited faces as we left the house.

This is Todd in his serious mood. My dad is a very serious camper and we had a three room tent, a kitchenette, two dutch ovens, a propane stove, a bbq, and three coolers. If you think he looks serious now, you should have seen him after the next picture.

We took my grandpa's truck and just as we turned of I-80 to head the six miles up to the campsite we noticed the vehicle was close to overheating. My dad kept looking at it and his face became more and more worried with every hill we climbed. He kept asking me the navigator how much further. Well we eventually made it to the campsite, but the car died before we got to our actual camping spot. So we began moving some of the camp items up a steep hill to the camp site. It was tiring, but my dad was finally able to get the car cooled down enough to drive up to the campsite.

Spencer had fun with Ally. We walked down to the lake and on the way back up Spencer was getting tired and he asked "Why is camping so hard?"

When we got back from our walk, Todd needed to practice his song for the talent show. Spencer sat in his little chair, and although you can't see it in the picture, he sat there and tapped his foot to the rhythm of the music. It was very cute, when Ally wanted to walk around the campsite to find some friends, Spencer said he would rather sit with Papa and listen to him play the guitar.

Spencer then found another friend, Samantha, who is one of Ally's friends. He followed her around the whole campout and wanted to always sit next to her. This campsite that we found was great, except for the fact there was a family of bees who lived there with us. The next morning three people were stung with bees including Ally. She was very sad that she was stung.

That night there was a talent show. This is a picture of Spencer as he was waiting for a puppet show to start. You can't tell from this picture, but he looked a little sad with a band aide on both knees. He had hurt one earlier in the week, and kept re injuring it and making it bleed. The other need he hurt while we were setting up the camp. Too much energy. Spencer was really excited when during the puppet show, he was called up to participate. He played the part of a dog and had to help pull an elephant out of a well.

Spencer was getting cold during the talent show so I retrieved a jacket for him. He looked very cute sitting there all wrapped up.

Ally was in the talent show doing some Miley Cyrus dance. She had alot of fun doing it. Spencer the next day convinced Ally to show him part of the dance and was sitting there reciting the words and practicing some zig zag move.

Dad played his guitar for the talent show, and sang the Chicken song. The ward enjoyed it and there were plenty of laughs over the egg nog, and chicklets. He also played the hymns during the fireside. When he was playing one of the hymns, Spencer told me to quit singing so he could listen to his Papa play the song.

As we were leaving we some some mouse. They were getting a drink as we drove by.

Here are two pictures of Spencer as he was playing around the camp.

Overall we had alot of fun. Spencer says he would want to go camping again. Especially because of the smores. Spencer loves smores.