Date Night and Camping at Eagle Lake

On July 29, the Children's Miracle Network sponsored a fundraiser to benefit Renown Children's Hospital. If you ate at Claim Jumpers Restaurant that night, a percentage of the bill was donated to the fundraiser. We with a few of our friends, decided to have a wonderful dinner while raising money for a great cause. Following dinner, we all headed down to the Aces ball park to watch a little baseball. We had a great night out with our friends and they even caught 2 foul balls! Our seats were fantastic as we were sitting just behind the visiting team's dugout on first base. We love going to baseball games!

The next day, July 30, to round out July and bring us into August, we took our now annual camping trip to Eagle Lake, CA with the Baerwaldts. We look forward to this camping trip. We love the site and the weather is always fantastic! The above picture is "tent city!"

While Erin and I sat up camp, the boys went off to gather firewood for us all. They did a pretty good job and got enough to give us some nice fires.

The above picture is Erin and I with our "camping cups." Every year that we camp we use these cups and write the year, location and some special phrase that represents that particular trip.

Here we are relaxing around the campsite while Halo always tries to sneak something away from us!

The mornings can be kind of chilly up there so campfires, hoodies, hats, hot coffee and puppy snugglings are a must! It doesn't take long for the day to warm up though and before long you don't even need all those things!

Last year the boys had a jet ski to keep them entertained. This year they decided to try their hands at fishing. The fishing wasn't that great this year. They were told by locals that in August/end of July you really need a boat to go out on the water to catch anything good.

Above is this year's group picture. We took it on our second night camping. Sometimes we forget how nice it can be to just sit back and relax.

It's also nice to sometimes just be really silly! The above picture and following three pictures are just that: us being silly!

Erin being silly

Us trying to take a break from being silly and take a nice picture

Dwayne being silly

The weekend always goes by so fast and before long it's time to pack up and head back home. Here is the Macie tent and family!

Here is the Baerwaldt tent and the Baerwaldts!

If we could all find the time to go I'm sure we would go more than once a year. Since it proves to be impossible sometimes to get us all on the same days away from work we will have to keep looking forward to our Annual Camping trips!

Here are Erin and I before we left the campgrounds.

Halo is not the best camper. He doesn't really like camping at all. He couldn't wait until we were going home!

This is his new spot when we travel. He's up high where he can see it all and he was very happy we were heading home!