UEA Camping....man has it been awhile.

 So we haven't been UEA camping with my family since probably before Seth was born.  Once we started jobs and had kids it was just a busy time of year for Cordelle to take work off and its always pretty far away.  But this year I was anxious to get out and I was excited to see my family so I thought, Why not?  Lucky for me Cordelle decided he would take some time off and he came with us.  It was like a mini easter camping trip but with a lot of my parents friends and their family. But the food was great and it was fun hanging out with everyone. Tallie and Jim came down.  Krista and Aarron came.  Brett and Tiffany were there.  It was great!!  Because we still don't have a trailer (one day) and after looking at the night time forecast, we wimped out and decided to get a hotel in Cainville for 2 days!  But it was actually kind of a unique way to do it. We got to camp.... but ALSO shower every day, sleep in a warm bed, not have to bring any camping equipment like tents and had a place to go back to if things got crazy.  It was kind of nice, I'm not gonna lie.  More expensive for sure and we didn't know that Cainville was 15 away from our campsite and so we were driving quite a bit back and forth...but still a fun little mini-cation. :)

 Seth and Jaq of course LOVED seeing their cousins!

 And Collin had a good time just beeing outside and getting dirty.

 We played a lot of games.  My mom's friends from their ward know a lot of games, so it was fun to learn and play some new games.

 Cordelle inherited a camera from his work.  Its not the greatest.  But he brought it to play around with.  So he took all these pictures he considers ART.  I think they are old barbed wire fencese in the middle of a deserted desert.  Call me uncultured. 

 This one is pretty cool (above).

 Our campsite from up on top of a mountain.

 Playing games

 King of the hill

 little nooks for Collin to climb into.

 Friday afternoon Neal and Brittlyn joined us and so we all went to tour Capital Reef (not that we haven't been there every year for the past 6 years at Easter) but we did the regular hikes to the petroglyphs and even discovered a new trail by accident (when we were looking for a 1 mile quick hike with just our family we discovered we went the wrong direction which led us to more of a 4 mile hike which our kids did awesome with and it was so rewarding because the scenery was way more beautiful than our other hike would have been.  Love it when those accidents happen).

 We found this beautiful overlook that I dont ever remember going to before.  Had this cute little bench for the kids to "rest" on. 

 Isnt this beautiful?  I was so excited to take this wide panoramic of our family.  If the sun had on the other side of the horizon we could have gotten more of the deep gorge.

 And here we are on our misguided hike.  Luckily Uncle Neal and Aunt Brittlyn were there to help entertain us. (especially Collin at the top).

 And what better way to end a long trip of staying up late around the campfire with cousins than to zonk all the way home?  (How do you even sleep in that position?)