CAMPING

On Wednesday, Bentley, Porter, Garrett, and I went camping. We left a day earlier than the rest of my family with Grandma and Grandpa Severtson. We planned to have a random video made from all our camping stuff, so we filmed a bunch of stuff. I'll try to upload the video once it's all done. Here's how we spent our time:

Wednesday: went to Sonic (where a highschool musical song was playing, and made our day), saw snow, took stalkerish pictures of cool trucks, Bentley and I put up a tent faster than Porter/Garrett/Grandpa, fossil songs*, moth flew into the fire**, made shadow puppets with sound effects in our tent, matchmaking with the brothers

*Porter had this eraser he found at school, and it was hard, so he wrote "Fossil" on it, and named it fossil. He brought him camping so we could see how an eraser burns, and Garrett accidentally bumped it in. In our movie, we had porter sing clips of songs like "Cuz Fossil you're a Firework!" "Fossil didn't start a fire...it was always burnin" "Fossil fell into a burnin ring of fire" and such.

**There was this moth flying around the fire, and flew RIGHT into it, and burned to a crisp. Later, right before bed, my grandma says "Poor Miller, he was so warm...cremated..." Bentley and I gave each other a very confused look "MILLER?" and asked her what she meant. She replies "Miller the moth!" Apparently she named this moth Miller. It's just funny because our friends the Millers in our ward, it seems like they're everywhere :) ha

Thursday: We slept in-ish, hiked to the rim to get cell service to see who all was coming and when, read Mockingjay and listened to music, attempted to tan but got sunburned instead, Bentley and I started the fire all by ourselves (we must be boy scouts!), most of the family came up, filmed some more for a video, Grandma passed out lil buzzers to everyone that were in the shape of easter bunny mouths, toes about froze off, up late analyzing people (being awfully loud I must say, but no one heard what we were saying!)

Friday: Played games (UNO, Phase 10, Chicken foot-with dominoes), talked with Julee for a long time, filmed more for video, ate s'mores, prevented freezing toes by putting my mom's Chicago snow coat over my sleeping bag over my toes (it worked!), fell right asleep

Saturday: Played lots of Rummikub with JuLee and Darren, had an Easter egg hunt (kid, THEN adult), had a "potluck" type lunch with the family, left early*, and ate Taco Bell

*We had planned to leave Sunday, but Bentley and I didn't want to stay another night. My dad likes to leave first thing in the morning, so we figured, why stay another freezing night if we can just leave a night early? It wouldn't be any more time to hang out really. And Sunday it was supposed to rain, so packing up in the wet wouldn't be very fun. Ryan and Woody were going to leave, so Bentley and I were going to go home with them if my family took Ian and Aiden. Turns out, my family ended up wanting to leave too, so every single one of the families left early too. After everyone wanting to stay until Sunday :)

This trip was SOOO fun!! I love camping SO much, but I say next time we go, we wait until it's not so cold at night! :)